Some Interesting WIPs

[Sam Salvati]

Here are a couple I am playing with lately There is a cleaver from 1077, sashimi type knife in 1084, and a big chopper/bowie in 1084. Forged the bowie at Ashokan, and forged the cleaver and sashimi knife today. The sashimi knife is the evolution of my quest to understand the intricate and complex geometries of the japanese sushi type knife, as well as some great input from Roman Landes and his wonderful knives.

Chopper

The cleaver was very fun, and I added some cheesy ball peen marks

and the sashimi knife

And this interesting sword, which was going to be a katana until I messed up the bevel, so I convexed the whole thing. I put in some curve at the tip, then quenched twice in park's #50, and it sort of got all this cool curvature and recurve.

The Park's gives some REALLY odd countercurving effects!

 

[strahd71]

Sam are you using that new power hammer for all of this? how is that thing working for you? dont mean to high jack your thread buddy but i was excited for you when you got that hammer going

jake

 

[Sam Salvati]

HECK YEAH! I only have flat dies and no tooling made for it yet, so I am relegated to mostly drawing things out. I had the taper unbeveled blank forged for the sashimi knife which is 16 1/2" long with a 12" edge tapering from 1/4" to 1/8" thick on the spine drawn out from a 7 inch piece of 1/4 by 1 1/2" 1084 in maybe 20 minutes. If I had the tooling for setting the tang shoulder and more aggressive drawing dies I could probably do that in half the time, maybe just one or two heats.

 

[strahd71]

sounds awsome Sam, i hope you get the dies you need.

good luck

jake

 

[69_knives]

Hey Sam, Nice work, I love the cleaver. And that longass recurve fighter is sweet!

There seems to be a lot of railroad rail floating aroung, could you use the tops for your dies?

 

[Dixieblade57]

Sam you have been busy! Loooking good!:thumbup: Now lets see some finished works!

 

[Sam Salvati]

Steve, thanks! I couldn't use rail, the dies would need to atleast be made by a machinist, cut in dovetails and all that. Best idea I can figure is to mount sets of spring dies in a tool holder instead of buying all kinds of different dies. I have been watching alot of japanese knifemaker videos, one thing I notice about they're powerhammer dies are the lower die and upper die are both round, the upper die is smaller diameter than the lower and the lower die is flat while the upper die is crowned like a hand hammer is. I want to see if I can get a set like that worked up by a machinist buddy of mine from some large diameter round bar.

Dixie, thanks! I can't wait to finish the cleaver so I can USE IT!!!

 

[TekSec]

Sweet long blade! Can't wait to see the clip point finished out!

 

[Sam Salvati]

Thanks Erik! I think you saw the longblade at Ashokan....

 

[Burton Harruff]

Looks like some nice work there Sam. I like that sashimi knife I will have to try one of those sometime. Keep the pics coming