"WIP" addiction

Karl B. Andersen

Karl B. Andersen

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I know you guys are starting to get addicted to "Works In Progress", so I thight I might help add to your dependancy.
I'm doing a forge building tutorial for a few friends of mine and had the camera in the shop, so I thought I would show you the next knife from Andersen Forge.
Remember Andersen Forge?
It's a forged W2 8 inch Bowie with a rather nice hamon. One of those really dark Sambar Stag handles and a bunch of Stainless steel take-down hardware.
I got further along in the "progress" part before I took any pictures, and for that, I appologize.
The guard will get shaped and then rope file-worked for a little Western Flair!
Spacer and butt cap are shaped to the handle material.
Handle will be left about 97.625% intact shape-wise.
Stay tuned!

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thats a good looking blade Karl, looking forward to seeing it finished. I throught you were going to have a forge building tutorial. ;) ;)

Bill
 
Andersen forge... hmm that sounds familiar... :confused: Didn't that guy used to make some beautiful knives? :p

The knife is off to the usual great start :D
 
Well Karl, I guess there are worse things to be addicted to :) Thanks for feeding our habit :)

I know we will enjoy this.

Brian
 
Work in progress. I finally figured out what WIP stands for, da. Looks like your going in the right direction so far.
 
Ooooooooh, it is looking good so far Karl. I look forward to seeing more.
 
Alright - progress!

Here I have further refined the piece fitting and have turned the guard into an oval.

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A little better view of the butt cap and finial. I always leave the finial in this condition all the way up to about that last thing. I tighten the knife up each time with VISE GRIPS!! That way, I'll know it's gonna last - if it's gonna break, I want it to break in MY shop - not yours!

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Here I have rounded the guard over in preparation of rope file work lay-out.

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Here is some of that lay-out in progress:
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File work mostly done. About all that's left is to polish the interior of the file work and handrub the remainder of the guard.
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Another view:
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A finished butt cap and finial:

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Two views of the knife about 90 percent done. I still have to polish out the guard file work and then etch the blade to reveal the hamon:

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Karl B. Andersen said:
I get confused myself, Bill.
I gotta keep notes.
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Shoot Carl, I throught I was the only one that wondered, where and what I was doing most of the time, I found it pays to write things down anymore. :)

That is Carl with a C, right? ;)

Knifes looking great


Bill
 
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