Tacticalforum.de forum knife

[Toni Oostendorp]

Erik Markman and I have privilage to make this years custom forum knife for the tactical forum in Germany. We made a design together that has features from both our knives. The design and prototype were approved and we now started making the damascus. Here are some pictures of the progress:

Prototype which has a lower layer count than the final knives will have.

Setup for making 6 meters of damascus steel

Press

Forge

Rolling mill

Forge

Big Blue

Measuring the 75ni8 steel (white color)

Cutting the pieces

75ni8 on the left (2 rows) and 1.2842 on the right.

Stacking the billet, 10 pieces of 1.2842 and 11 of 75ni8.

6 billets ready for welding.

Heating up the billet

After the first weld with the hand held hammer, the second weld is done with either the press or the power hammer.

Drawing out the billet with the rolling mill.

Drawing out the billet with the power hammer.

Drawn out billets.

Cleaning the steel for re-stacking and welding.

6 billets ready for welding resulting in a 210 layered piece of damascus steel.


Next welding and drawing out the final bars, annealing, surface grinding and making the blade templates.

 

[Camber]

Very cool work in progress!

 

[EldoEsq]

very very cool!!! great pics, cant wait to see them finished!!

 

[Meier66]

Beautiful knife and a great design! The WIP pics are very cool
Btw, are these knives exclusive to forum members of Tactical forum Germany?

 

[erik markman]

Yes, these knives are exclusive to the TF Germany.
Thanks for the nice words.

 

[9blades]

Absolutely stunning!

 

[jdm61]

At first, I thought that you said a combination of both makers, so naturally, I was looking for some kind of mutant thing with a buzzed head and some wooden shoes. Nice work, guys!:thumbup:

 

[BladeScout]

Knife looks great from the point to lanyard ring.

Very accomplished design/lines IMO.

Lucky dogs who get one.

 

[Lycosa]

So meticulous.
Great work!
rolf

 

[Toni Oostendorp]

Und weiter gehts!

Heating up the new constructed billet

Making the first weld with the hand held hammer

Welded together resulting in 210 layers

Drawing out

Resulting bars...

Measuring the individual segments that will become a knife

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One of the cut off's...

Heating it up

Forging the point

Forged tang

Narrowing the blank to lengthen the whole.

A couple of passes through the rolling mill, getting the blank to the desired thickness

Finished blank

Finished blanks ready for profiling and drilling

Profiled and drilled blanks, soaked in vinegar to remove the bulk of the scale.

Next step is precision grinding, getting the blanks to the final thickness.

 

[jdm61]

Nice work, but are you going to have any time for Gembloux?

 

[The sharpend]

That's a beast of a blade on the right with the pattern visible great WIP.
Look forward to the finished product any plans on scale variation or will they be . like the proto ?.

 

[BenR.T.]

Very cool build Toni! I am sure with you and Erik working on these will turn out awesome!!

 

[Wulf]

Thanks for sharing these pics - I'm really looking forward to seeing the completed knives. And since I'm a German now, I may just have to wander over to tacticalforum.de and say hello

 

[Azcountryman]

Talk about some knife porn!! Know how knives are made but always really cool to see WIP pics...Thanks

 

[erik markman]

Blades ground flat.

 

[erik markman]

False edges ground.

 

[ViktorV]

Wow, very nice series on your WIP. Looking forward to see the rest

 

[Locutus D'Borg]

Thanks for the photo journey into the world of making damascus.

 

[dr_fosg8]

Very cool to share with us. Nice wip.