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

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

 

[Jak Epp]

Crag the Brewer I started doing this. I like it.

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Scribing a center line really helped the quality of my grinds when I started doing it, and now my edges are actually straight!

 

[David Mary]

 

[David Mary]

I was able to make straight edges for the most part. But it was often more fiddly and time consuming and this makes it so fast

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I was able to make straight edges for the most part. But it was often more fiddly and time consuming and this makes it so fast

Your stuff is usually hard when you get it, right?
How well does the scribe work with hardened material?

I did it once recently, idk about how much time it saved me, but the second grind did seem less piddly


Are you happy with that style scribe for near the blade tip?

I think the tip is where I'm most concerned about....I'm pretty good by eye now everywhere else

 

[David Mary]

Sharpie first hard or soft. Whatever the scribe can’t reach my eyeballs can.

 

[David Mary]

Also started a Sirupetite

 

[DeadboxHero]

CPM Prototype Steel

Still Sharp

Larrin
nsm
D DevinT

 

[navman]

looks like a winner. Is this another high hardness, high edge retention formula?

 

[Daado]

Little Giant
Starting piece was 12mm thick flat bar (1/2"). Forged closest to the shape (pictures in previous post). Final thickness 10mm without tapered tang. Weights 600 grams.
Damascus G10 scales, thin black G10 liners and carbon fiber pins. Almost finished.

 

[hugofeynman]

Little Giant
Starting piece was 12mm thick flat bar (1/2"). Forged closest to the shape (pictures in previous post). Final thickness 10mm without tapered tang. Weights 600 grams.
Damascus G10 scales, thin black G10 liners and carbon fiber pins. Almost finished.

Extraordinary!!!!!!! This knife would laugh of JoeX!

 

[Taz]

Did some forging! I was making a big blade knife in 8670 last summer, but got the ricasso/handle area thinner than I wanted, so I cut it down at the thin spot and made the 2 knives on the left from the 2 pieces. Middle is a piece of 52100 that I forged out, right 2 are some 125CR1/15N20 144 layer damascus pieces. Going to make 2 fixed blades with the blade shape of the Buck 110 folder from those pieces. Did the normalizing, DET anneal and heat treat and quench and tempering on my days off this week.

And also made this one:



3.25" Nitro V blade, 62 HRC, Vintage Tri Color Canvas Micarta and natural canvas pins and lanyard tube:

Found this 80CRV2 blade I forged out probably last summer and decided to do a cord wrap on it. I will probably either do scales on it (gotta flatten out the forge tapered tang) or drill a hole in the tang to secure the cord wrap a bit better. I did the harpoon style tip on it and added a swedge to it, too. Pointy little shank type blade with a convex grind, so it's pretty beefy for a small knife with the 1/4" spine!

 

[bike4fun919 OpbunchKnives]

 

[Lorien]

 

[Richard338]

Profiled some steak knives.

 

[Hengelo_77]

feelin' kinda Scandi

 

[Lorien]

just got this sweet new vise! It wasn't cheap, but I've been planning to make one for about 4 years and it's still in the planning stages.
I have a feeling this is going to be a pretty decent improvement over the 2x4 and clamp method I've been using lol

I got it from Maritime Knife Supply up here in sunny Canada, and it's made in Australia. Go Commonwealth!

 

[Taz]

First of my 144 layer 125cr1/15N20 blades! This was actually the one that had the crack/voids in it; I cut that part off and reforged the remainder of the chunk, so it got a bit thinner, but it looks good! Handle is orange AmeriGrip and the guard is Kevlar with a orange G10 spacer. Tried to imitate the Buck 110/119 clip point style since I haven't really done any clip points!

2nd blade, still needs more grinding, but I wanted to do a test etch. This one is a bit thicker and wasn't forged down as thin, so the layers aren't as compacted. I think it looks better than the other one, even with a quick etch!

These were my first attempt at ladder pattern. Grooves were cut .75" apart from each other and offset on the 2 sides, but I forged them flat and then reforged a bit more, so the pattern got more distorted from the extra forging and drawing out. Next time, I will do the rungs a good bit closer to each other before forging down. I think I will use a burr to cut the grooves to make them more rounded instead of an angle grinder grinding disc.

 

[Wyo Coyote]

I got one of the Nordic Edge's knife vise after seeing them at Blade this year. They all had already been spoken for, but I ordered one directly from them. I love it. It's been a great investment!