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Blades piled up on me a bit, so it's heat treat day.
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This is why I love making knives... going from an idea to something that can be used and counted on. I started on paper with these then cut out the pattern to transfer to steel. I adjusted the design a bit from paper as the handle needed a bit more thickness. After that I marked my Steel with Dykem, clamped my knife down with a kant-twist clamp and scribed the design down. My heat treated template knife has holes located and sized for my hand held center punch so I also punch in my hole locations. This ensures repeatability and accuracy with only simple hand tools

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This is why I love making knives... going from an idea to something that can be used and counted on. I started on paper with these then cut out the pattern to transfer to steel. I adjusted the design a bit from paper as the handle needed a bit more thickness. After that I marked my Steel with Dykem, clamped my knife down with a kant-twist clamp and scribed the design down. My heat treated template knife has holes located and sized for my hand held center punch so I also punch in my hole locations. This ensures repeatability and accuracy with only simple hand tools

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What size is that? I was just looking at them and saw this post.
 
CPM 3V 62c 8" blade with a high hollow grind.

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Custom Pry Bars from Z-Finit Stainless Steel

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XHP and curly koa (stabilized)
10 inch blade low flex steaking knife .103 thick spine hollow ground on 4' dia. platen over all length is 15"
the handle has a "coke bottle" grind
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A template for a 7" blade fighter in CPM 3V.

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I have a bunch of JT's 15N20 right now, so I thought I would use it for something a bit different.

These are some primitive arrowheads that I made up. Fresh out of the tempering oven



And here is one of them ground out. I left the heat treat scale on the flats for the interesting look. Now I have to get an oak dowel and make up an arrow to test this out.

 
First blade I've ground in over 3 months. Work has been interfering with my life. S35VN 750 grit belt finish.

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Designing an integral frame/guard for my stabby S7 Bowie. Have a 6.1 x 2 x 1 brick of grade 5 Ti coming to mill this out of. Need to make a wood model before I make any chips. Something about the sub hilt to butt spacing ratio looks off to me.

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