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[Bühlmann]

Did my first ever forge weld today. A San Mai test coupon of 15n20 high carbon sandwiched between 1018 mild steel. It etched exactly opposite of what I expected!

 

[Richard338]

My cable damascus Bowie is on its way back from HT so I'm trying to get the dog bone handle pieces ready. I'm taking tips from an old WIP from John White.
The frame is 3/16" 1018 steel and will be polished and blued as black as possible. It is sandwiched by 0.032" nickel silver making the frame 1/4" to match the tang. The guard is also 1018 and will be polished then blued to black. The spacer between the guard and handle is three layers of nickel silver and two of the 1018. The wood is African Blackwood and still needs the facets ground. I have some 3/16" steel ball bearings that I will attempt to flatten into hemispheres and drill to attach pins...

 

[REK Knives]

started a new front flipper build

 

[jviccc]

Here's an 11" tanto I forged from ApexUltra. Width tapers from 34-20mm and thickness from 9-4mm, tempered somewhere under 65HRC. Tsuba is wrought iron with brass seppa, copper for everything else. Black walnut and supertusk on the saya. Wrapped everything in metallic brocade followed by my attempt at jabara maki.

 

[WValtakis]

 

[Lorien]

got some blades back from my etching bro, so it's time to finish them

 

[Lorien]

my engraving bro is WValtakis . He has a little chisel thing.
my etching bro is Ian. He has laser beams.

 

[Richard338]

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[WValtakis]

my engraving bro is WValtakis . He has a little chisel thing.
my etching bro is Ian. He has laser beams.

Lasers have some advantages, not needing resharpening after titanium rips the tip off being one

 

[WValtakis]

 

[WValtakis]

 

[TheEdge01]

Oops! Wrong place! Sorry guys.

 

[WValtakis]

 

[Scott Hanson]

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Those scale look fantastic, can't wait to see this one when it's done.

 

[Steelhog]

This was my attempt at a kitchen knife. Ended up being more of a trade knife I think. 8670 with stabilized/dyed cherry wood. Still having trouble getting grind lines out and a consistent finish.

 

[Hengelo_77]

I find the history of WW1 fascinating and took a brake from the normal kind of knives I work on to make an other trenchknife.
(Grabendolch)
The top one is an older one I made, the bottom one is a WW1 original.

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

Z-Wear ,Purple heart, bronze and some kind of ivory micarta I had laying around.I just roughed out the handle this morning!

 

[AVigil]

 

[WValtakis]

 

[WValtakis]