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Great blade shape - lots of fairly complex detail in the handle. Powder coat definitely gives it a nice professional look. Thanks for the pics.
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Nice blade and your name suits you to a tee! You indeed have to be aliloff to start making knives, let alone the sheathes and scabbards from a hundred different materials!!!!:thumbup: 
After you ground and finished the blade did you "draw/temper" it back in your oven to a straw color? If you left it full file hard it is brittle and although fine for uses a knife is used for not good for chopping and other rough and heavy duty.
After you ground and finished the blade did you "draw/temper" it back in your oven to a straw color? If you left it full file hard it is brittle and although fine for uses a knife is used for not good for chopping and other rough and heavy duty.
Nice blade and your name suits you to a tee! You indeed have to be aliloff to start making knives, let alone the sheathes and scabbards from a hundred different materials!!!!:thumbup:
After you ground and finished the blade did you "draw/temper" it back in your oven to a straw color? If you left it full file hard it is brittle and although fine for uses a knife is used for not good for chopping and other rough and heavy duty.
I used a torch and tempered from the spine while the edfge was cut into a wet sponge. learned how from the primitive ways website. pretty interesting stuff there.
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Good on you!!!! You're not as much off as you might think you be.
Speaking of Primitive Ways, have you been on Tim Lively's or Tai Goo's Websites? They both make wonderful and imprssive blades!!!!:thumbup:
And I know Tim doesn't use any power tools at all and I'm pretty sure that Tai Goo doesn't either but I haven't checked lately.
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Sweet! How did you heat treat it?
Looks awesome!
Looks awesome!
Andy here a link to the web page
http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-knives-1.html
If you go to the section on tempering he'll explain it better that I, but I took out a little insurance by leaving the edge in a wet sponge.
Nasty hope this is okay, if not then please remove it.
Thanks everbody, the real reason i started was to be able to make something i enjoyed and even though i'm a USMC trained gun guy making a firearm is a bit illegal and very expensive so i turned to my other passion which is edged weapons. now if i can just built a good cheap forge i'll be set to start hammering steel. i've got a hankering to make a knife out of a piece of steel cable.