Winter project 2 - Nesmuk-ish

Rupestris

Rupestris

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My first was the $11 Mora.

My latest was inspired by Mr. Daniel Koster and his versions of the Nesmuk and Monster Nessie.

My son brought me an early Christmas gift a couple weeks ago. An old rusty cleaver. A friend of his was cleaning out his garage and was going to toss it. Knowing I like to tinker with such things, he rescued it from the land fill and presented it to me knowing I'd get a kick out of it.

Heres a few pics. Some of them are pretty bad but you get the idea.

Before:
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During:
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And after:
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It began as a scandi grind but due to a limited selection of sanding belts on hand, I finished it with the 6" disk with 500 grit on an interface pad which give it a slight convex. Finishing the sharpening with P600 and P1000 on a mousepad further added to the convexed look.

I removed the rust with 220 grit followed by 600 to clean up the 220 scratches.

Its going to be the camp kitchen knife. Measures 6" from tip to scales with a max height of 2.25"

Total cost on this one:
3 cut-off wheels for the Dremel tool
about $3 worth of sandpaper

Thanks for looking,

Chris
 
Nice! In addition to your great work on the blade, I like the fact that it already had a substantial length handle.

DancesWithKnives
 
that thing came out cool chris...:thumbup: great work man..:) looks like it was a lot of fun to make...
 
Great job, Rupestris. Coincidentally, I recently picked up a Henkels cleaver at the reuse centre, for 50 cents.

My question is, when these are tempered, are they done as a whole piece or are they differentially (?) tempered? What I'm getting at is, if you cut the blade back away from the original edge, is it still going to be tempered?

Doc
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Great job, Rupestris. Coincidentally, I recently picked up a Henkels cleaver at the reuse centre, for 50 cents.

My question is, when these are tempered, are they done as a whole piece or are they differentially (?) tempered? What I'm getting at is, if you cut the blade back away from the original edge, is it still going to be tempered?

Doc
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Good question Doc. I really don't know. I'm not even sure where this one come from. It could be a Chinese knock off of a real cleaver. I'd guess that through hardening would be cheaper and faster than differential hardening.

This one was more-or-less a test of my ability to do some freehand work. Cutting with the Dremel, free hand scandi on the bench belt sander, etc.

It'll get some use cutting "taters" and onions at camp/cottage. Might see how it handles some tougher stuff but Its not going to be my go-to blade so I can play around with it. If I mess it up, it goes back to the grinder. Theres plenty of steel there.

Thanks again everyone. This one was fun. So much so that I went to the garage yesterday to work on it. It couldn't have been but 10*F outside. Not much warmer in the garage:o.
 
Chris - that's a great project. It turned out sweet. I've got some old knives laying around that I'd love to try out something like that on.
 
Awesome job Rupestris. That one really has the koster visual to it. Looks great!
 
haha great work man, i've been trying to get out and finish up the knife I was working on, but its constantly been below -30 here (thats Celsius by the way) and its just been waaaaay too cold.
 
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