Some finished knives

Matt Markell

Matt Markell

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Hi all, I spend most of my time here in Shop Talk so I decided to post these here for y'all to critique. In these pics I have a paring knife with walnut dymondwood scales, two chisel ground utility knives with black linen micarta scales and a small wharnie with an antiqued finish on the blade and rosewood scales. All but the paring knife are made from Aldo's 1/8" 1084 while the paring knife is made from Jantz's 3/32" 1095. Pins and tubing are 416 stainless. HT is done by myself. All are shaving sharp. I put a v-ground secondary bevel on the two utility knives, next time I think I will do a single bevel on the flat side.

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Overall, I'm pretty happy with the results. Let me know what you guys think.
 
Sure, it wasn't that hard. The blade was edge quenched so you can see a bit of a hamon there. What I did was sand the blade out to 400 grit then do a hillbilly stonewash (coffee can with rocks, water and dish soap shaken around for an hour or so) After the stonewash I heated some apple cider vinegar to near boiling and let the blade sit in it until it was a deep even black color at which point I rinsed it under cold water. I let the blade dry then oiled it. While the oil was on it, I used my fingers to rub the black oxides around into splotchy patterns. Once the oil had dried, I used some 600 grit sandpaper to bring out the stonewash marks and highlight the grind lines. It sounds much more difficult then it really was ;)
 
Here's another picture, this one is of the other side and the sheath I made for the paring knife.

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