What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

[Hengelo_77]

Your pic doesn't show, kuntzi

Nice one Adam

 

[KUNTZI66]

Your pic doesn't show, kuntzi

Nice one Adam

Yup, Im figuring this stuff out. Thanks, think I have it.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I've been having a lot of fun with Zirconium...

Zirc Pivot Inlay

Zirc inlay in progress

Zirconium Clip, Backspacer and inset started...

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I might be having too much fun finishing this one!

Scales ground to 600+ and lightly buffed. I'll probably take the flats back to 600 before more finishing.

https://vimeo.com/194257230

 

[Rhinoknives1]

Finished up a simple kydex sheath for the first knife I made:


Filing on this hunter:


And a couple others in the work. One is ready for hand sanding prior to HT, the other I'm still figuring out where I want to put the plunge line:

Very Nice knife & Kydex! Looks far better than the first one I filed by hand some 20 years ago! LOL Keep up the great work!:thumbup:

 

[KnuckleDownKnives]

Finished this one up this weekend. Pin are way off.









About done with this one.

 

[josh81]

Busy week for me. Slowly getting caught up though.

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[AVigil]

 

[AVigil]

 

[terrinecold]

Your pins are rather wonky. Besides not being centered thy come out in different places then where thy start on the opposite side. How did you heat treat it?
For your first knife it looks good, we all have to start somewhere.

this is after finishing the wood



The problem with the pins are rather that the handle is not as symetrical as it should. I shaped it manually and it looks like each scale has a half circle profile but its turned out to be more of a pear shape with one side having the rounder part toward the top and the other toward the bottom. I think it is an artifact of how I was positioned vs the knife when shaping one side or the other.



For heat treating I built a makeshift forge with fire bricks outside and heated the blade with a torch until it was non magnetic then a bit more and dunked it in cannola oil. I checked with a file and the blade was definitely hardened. Then I put it in the oven for 2 cycles of 2h at 400degress then cooling.
I am sure that the hardening worked I think that the tempering did too but I don't know how to test that non destructively (basically short of bending the knife till it breaks).

 

[Maelstrom78]

Sounds like you did a good amount of research before beginning your first knife. Forge, canola, your plunge that I can see looks decent, choil is symmetrical. Hand sanded blade without rounding the tip off to nothing.

A heck of a good start. You can see that your preparation helped you with your product. Good on you.

 

[kuraki]

Working on finishing this up. My first big bowie, first recurve, first real hamon. 1075, a really neat piece of stabilized maple with burl, birdseye, some spalting, and some fiddling.

 

[JoshRG]

Josh - that is pretty damn classy. Wonderful lines.

-Peter

Wow, that handle really stands out and complements the superb grind on the blade... beautiful knife. :thumbup:

Thanks guys! Really appreciate it!

Finishing up these two after taking way too long.

 

[Maelstrom78]

Very nice Kuraki. A lot to like. I like the subtlety of the brass(?) for the guard. No gaps!

 

[terrinecold]

thanks Maelstrom78

 

[kuraki]

Very nice Kuraki. A lot to like. I like the subtlety of the brass(?) for the guard. No gaps!

Oh it's copper. Thank you!

 

[KnuckleDownKnives]

Finished on other one tonight. Been a productive couple days.

 

[ndp_2010]

recent heavy fighter finished, 10 inch W2, stabilized silver wattle handle

 

[JTknives]

Working on finishing this up. My first big bowie, first recurve, first real hamon. 1075, a really neat piece of stabilized maple with burl, birdseye, some spalting, and some fiddling.

That is really attractive.

 

[kuraki]

Thanks JT that means a lot to me. I did some more finishing on the handle and guard last night. I really need to build a rotary platen for that.