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! |
