It's been a while since I've made a post on anything, but that's what grad school does to your hobbies haha. Just spent the past two days working on some small knives. They're made from 1/8" thick x 1" wide O1 tool steel. The leaf blade is a new design that I drew up on CAD and the first one that I've done from a CAD design, and the second one is an old blade that I made two summers ago and just finished up. I heat treated them in my paint can forge and quenched them in warm veggie oil, and tempered them at 350 for 30 minutes,so I suspect the hardness is on the higher side, which would be great for edge retention.They have yet to make the handles, since I will need to clear out the garage so that I could grind micarta outdoors, given that the dust is fairly nasty stuff. Aside from that, I'll let the pictures explain themselves. More to come later. Enjoy!
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| (filing in the plunge grind - using 123 blocks as file guides) |
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| ready for hardening! |
Peter, this has got to be the most bad ass hobby I have ever seen! Amazing! I'd love to check out the process in action sometime and see your work station. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteThanks man, I'd be happy to show you how it's done in person when we have the time. For the time being, I'm still waiting on some materials to come in the mail so until then there isn't much I can show you at the moment, but we'll discuss later if you're still interested.
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