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[HSC ///]

finished and delivered this two piece set today
frame handle of kingwood and sambar stag, silicon bronze frame

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

1084 blade, burlap micarta, 7.5" clip point.

 

[M.McAlevy]

Damascus and camel bone edc

 

[Michael Black]

After you set the welds, how much more forging down did you do? It almost looks to me as though you got the welds set for the most part, but didn't get completed coverage with hammering after the fact, or, maybe didn't have quite even heat soaked all the way through the billet.

Okay so I tried it again and it worked like a charm! Got a decent enough first billet to try to turn into a knife. Thanks for the advice! Already looking forward to the next billet.

 

[Michael Black]

View attachment 891484 Damascus and camel bone edc

That's beautiful!

 

[cca1618]

52100 ball bearings/4800kc - G10/pecan, lignum vitae, maple handles

 

[tr3yanderson]

Well I'm new to this hobby; I've only finished two knives but I'm excited for these new designs, I'm playing around with these few styles to see which ones I like. I got these cut out yesterday and hopefully can start grinding bevels this sometime this week.

 

[ashwinearl]

My first four all O1 heat treated by JT. The jade and blue one were my first time profiling a handle this way. The canvas micarta one is my lesson learned about proportioning handle length to blade length. To me the handle is too short and too big a ricasso. There is a big hole in the back of the tang because I was going to put this 1/2" tubing in for a thong hole. I ended up not putting it in and when profiling the scale I burned through the tang into that existing hole.

I am thinking I don't like this style micarta. It was hard to machine and I seemed to burn it. Then again I am probably am using a dull belt.

 

[Jesse WW]

In the middle of building myself a new vertical ht furnace hoping to improve my ht's a little. Its coming along nicely i reckon.

I'm trying to make do with what i currently have on hand, so i just cut the top and bottom off of two 8.5kg gas bottles and seated them together. I left a little bit of a rounded lip on one half, so the two halves fit together nice and flush.

Ill use some lever latches to secure the two halves together. Reckon I might stick a second layer of insulation in there also.

 

[AVigil]

Working on a 80Crv2 Full flat ground Attack handle in black G10.

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

Chopper

 

[M.McAlevy]

Working on some sheaths

 

[AVigil]

 

[PEU]

My last batch

Pablo

 

[ten-six]

My last batch

Pablo

How do you get that uneven blackened finish?

 

[Adam Buttry]

Finishing up an order for one of my frame handled small hunters.

 

[erik markman]

Checking the pattern before handsanding.

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

WIP on chopper

 

[ashwinearl]

Is this too much ricasso showing? I am thinking the bottom one for sure is too much. I haven't glued anything up yet.

Thanks for the suggestion to cut a scale short and add a bolster. I did this on one of them. It was sketchy and I didn't know how the glue up went until it was all over. In hindsight, it probably would have been better to glue the scale and bolster to a liner first.

 

[E.Carlson]

Got a chance to finish a few things.