YAY a WIP

stephanfowler

stephanfowler

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I actually really enjoy doing WIP threads, they just seem so much more interactive.

So here's what I did on Saturday (among other things)

Start out with a sketch to keep me on track.
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Getting the point hammered in
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I really like my newish anvil, a 200Lb Chuck Robinson
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Crank it up baby
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Getting the Distal taper worked in
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My lovely wife grabbed a picture of me starting the Tang
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To get this...
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Getting into the bevels now, this is the fun part
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Cause it starts to look like a knife
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Three normalizing heats to get all the carbides happy
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A FRESH 36g Blaze puts the bevels in quick (and takes skin off even quicker, be careful)
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Satanite clay applied and baked on for the HT
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Running the forge down LOW (we don't wanna overheat it, slow is better)
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Quenching into my Parks #50, those flare ups are fun when you first go into the oil.
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And a quick polish to see if the Hamon is what we wanted, I'm happy with it.
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A little refining of the original concept sketch

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WIPs are pretty much the best kind of thread! And this one looks like a good one. Keep posting those pics.

Allen
 
Stephen, you got some serious skill and Mojo going! Glad to see you like your Chuck anvil, you sure are putting it to good use.
 
You are more of a man than I am hand-forging that 3/8" 1095. That steel is some nice stuff, but it will take its toll on an old man's arm.

Great looking blade my friend. Can't wait to see the final results.

Robert
 
definitely

this one is spoken for but I'm delivering it at Blade so I'm sure it will be around


Just finished polishing it out. I'm pooped.

c'yall tomorrow
 
Start out with a new 36g belt and get all the geometry where we want it

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Much better

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Layout and clamp a file guide for the False Edge

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Cut in the shoulders with a chainsaw file

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grind up to the layout lines

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We've polished up to 600g on the grinder, I stop polishing here and fit the guard and etch my mark.

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Guard is all fit up now

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A couple hours later we've polished up to 2000g and etched the Hamon

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And the other side

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Sorry, not a whole lot done last night.
I've been fighting a bit of a stomach bug.



Anyways, I did get some work done.


First we have to pick an appropriate piece of stag
I want to use the one on the left and Ren agreed so we are off to the races

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First drill holes through the Pith all the way through the handle piece
You can see here also the tool I use to scrape out the channel for the tang.
It's just an old file that I annealed and cut up into the shape you see, then rehardened.
Also note the sharpie layout lines that keep me in line with the stag, VERY important.
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Here we've got our channel pretty well cut. I'm about dead ATM so we'll pick this up again tonight.
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great kinfe, I love this kukry-style design and the WIP thread is fantastic, step by step pics are really detailed and self-explaining!
the hamon line rocks!!! :thumbup:

you are using 1095 steel, aren't you?
 
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Feeling much much better now, thanks


Sooooo, picking up where we left off yesterday.

first we layout and cut for the Sub-Guard

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Here I am laying out the slot onto the guard stock (1/4 x 1 - 416SS)

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Looking good, but probably a little bigger than we want it

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That's the ticket

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Threaded rod brazed into the tang (I cut out a slot w/ my bandsaw)

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Hmmm, seems we have a gap here when we screw things down tight

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That's much better

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Man, love the "inner voice" comments. That's so what I'd be thinking :D Great work!
 
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