Woodworking Knife for a friend.

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Jason Cutter

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I forged and finished this one from 1/4inch round bar of "Silver Steel" in under 1 hour hands-on time. (Spent much longer in the oven...) It has a scuffed finish because I let a friend test it doing some chip-carving (I have no idea what that is). Only the first 1inch of the blade is sharpened so you can choke up on the blade for detailed work. As you can see, its very small but I'm told that the bend in the handle is just right. The buttend is spring tempered so it can be used as a tin opener. The blade is tempered HARD for great edge holding, and it shouldn't be used for prying.

BTW, if anyone can give me more info about "Silver Steel" it would be much appreciated. It forges and works much like O1, and I think its probably the same thing, but I've been given differing information.

I am thinking of making more of these as integral neck knives in a variety of blade shapes. Please let me know what you think. Thanks in advance. Jason.

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I get the old red X for a picture. :(

From what I've read, Silver Steel is something like Swedish O1.
 
Here´s a link to a silver steel composition table and other info:

http://www.aircraftmaterialsuk.com/data/klein/sg-extra.html

This one looks like a very good chip carving knife, in chip carving you only use the tip of the blade and you want something thin and very sharp, you stick it in flat wood usually at an angle and take little pieces off, like if you make four small cuts at an angle all pointing to the same point you take out a little pyramid shaped piece of wood. You combine a lot of these cuts to make a design.
 
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