Stupid Beginner Question

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agita

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Say I have a nice piece of damascus steel , pattern welded that I have finished forging. I would love to make a regular fix blade knife and that would be fine. I have experience tempering and making other edged tools but not Knives. My question is, to make the things like the bolster lip down to the return, or the ridge that is below the fuller ( I don't know what that part is called), How do I do so? Or how do you go about it? Does one use a form or a double fuller or somthing like a mini-swage that has the negative image stamped?

thanks
 
I've seen smiths use a guillotine hardy for this, I've even seen them just free-eye it on the edge of the anvil. Personally I'm not that good. I do the best I can by eye ehile forging, then when I clean up the scale and start in with filing, I'll draw out what changes I want with a pencil, slap it into the bench vise, and go to work with files!
 
Thanks for the Info.

@savage I have been looking at that page and thanks, a few good ideas. I'll probably try a couple of things.

@Dan Does anyone make a guillotine like this or am I going after a machinist buddy? I thought there would be a form or something like that. Second thing, I've seen some homemade systems for keeping a file on a specific angle or edge. Should I try to make my own or am I better off buying a nicer system made for the job.


THANKs to all..
 
The setups I've seen were all homemade. I'm sure it's possible that it may be something you can simply purchase, but I haven't gone looking either.
 
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