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I know these aren't the droids you may be looking for but they're a valuable a learning experience for me and a part of the Redmeadow family.
Thought I'd start a thread and show the process to keep tabs on things. I've given away six through the Newsletter and made one as a request.
Start with a piece of steel (6"×1.1" 52100 .01" thick)

A little cheat grinding the corners. With steel this thin forging the corners in causes a lot of issues for me so knocking them off makes things a lot easier.

Make it bladey

Then handley

From here it's thermal cycled/normalized, profiled, lanyard hole drilled and chamfered, quenched, tempered, bevels ground, profile contoured and dressed, hand sanded, sheathed, sharpened, and off in the Newsletter.
I'll share random pics of the process along the way with these.
Really like
Comprehensivist
suggestion of calling these Rebels.
A couple of pics of ones that have gone out.






Thought I'd start a thread and show the process to keep tabs on things. I've given away six through the Newsletter and made one as a request.
Start with a piece of steel (6"×1.1" 52100 .01" thick)

A little cheat grinding the corners. With steel this thin forging the corners in causes a lot of issues for me so knocking them off makes things a lot easier.

Make it bladey

Then handley

From here it's thermal cycled/normalized, profiled, lanyard hole drilled and chamfered, quenched, tempered, bevels ground, profile contoured and dressed, hand sanded, sheathed, sharpened, and off in the Newsletter.
I'll share random pics of the process along the way with these.
Really like

A couple of pics of ones that have gone out.




