felix24

Hello everyone,

haven't been on the knife forums in ages and ages. Mostly due to lasiness on my part . I want to get back into the habit again though.

Here's a new carving knife I made for myself during the week. This was my second attempt at a full hidden tang...the first one didn't go so well.
The blade is made from O1 tool steel and is 70mm long, 18mm wide and 3mm thick.
The handle is made from two pieces of brass, two pieces of sycamore and three pieces of cherry and is about 115mm long (can't remember the exact length).











Thanks for looking!
Take it easy

-Felix

those are two beautiful knives. i can't decide whether i like the forged finish or the satin finish better....ah well, guess they look equally awesome
and yeah, that pecan looks fantastic aswell.

those look great!! i love railroad spike knives
well done :)

yeah i've seen Jake Powning's site and tutorials before. the awesomeness of his work is actually what got me into making knives in the first place
thanks for the advice and comments,
take it easy ;)

hey thanks for the advice. www.leatherworker.net is great :)

hey thanks for the comments guys

Ed Steinkirchner: for carving I use a chip-carving knife and one or two palm gouges. I do stop cuts along all the curved lines with the gouges, and cut the straight lines with the chip carving knife. Then use the chip-carving knife and gouges to create the relief effect. At the end i clean it up with a small piece of 400 grit sand paper.
Thanks for the advice about the leather work What kind of glue is good to use on leather?

Hey Guys,

Here's a whittling knife I made for a freind of mine. Tested it by carving a small spoon from an old pice of cherry that was lying around. It carves really nicely
Made a little sheath to go with it aswell. Didn't turn out TOO bad really. Leather working is something I want to learn a bit better in the near future.

Some specs:
Blade: O1 tools steel, 60mm long
Handle: brass-maple-brass-walnut with a brass pin, 115mm long







Thanks fro looking,
take it easy ;)

I like that one. Nice work sir :D

that hammer head is too cool :D

that's a bad-*** looking knife. well done B)

thanks everyone

that's beautiful!! well done :)

Hey Guys,
Here's two pruning knives that I made for my first ever paid commission. The lady who asked me to make them will be collecting them in a few days, so that will be pretty exciting
They took way longer to make than usual cause I kept making mistakes. First commission jitters I guess

Some specs:
The blades are O1 tool steel and 85mm long,
the finger guards are brass
the handle wood is cherry
the handles are 115mm long

absolutely beautiful :)

fantastic. can't wait to see the finished seax.

fair play, man. that's a wonderful first knife!!! congrats :)

thanks guys :)

Hey guys.
Haven't really done much knife-making lately cause I was away from home for a while and then I was sick for a while, but I'm on the mend now and just finished making an EDC for a guy.
I'm quite pleased with this one. It's probably the cleanest knife I have made so far.

Some specs:
The blade is O1 tool steel.
Handle material is brass and cherry wood.
Pins are brass
Blade length is 80mm
Handle length is 95mm

The reason the handle is so short is that the guy I made it for has tiny hands(don't worry he's not a kid, he's 38 years old )







Thanks for looking

those are fantastic!! what's the handle material on the last one? if you don't mind me asking :)

those are some really great knives. especially seeing as they are your first ones!!

beautiful work. i love the shape of the HHH Sharpfinger. fantastic :D

that's beautiful. i really like that blade shape what did you use for the black liner material? is it fabric?

I usually anneal my blades in the forge when I'm finished. It takes about 5 hours to cool and that seems to anneal the blades quite well. I'm not that experienced yet, but I think 45 mins is probably not enough. Someone correct me if I'm wrong

Some good methods for annealing are to bury the blade in wood ash, vermiculite or some other non-flamable insulating material, with about 6 or more inches of insulation all around the blade (the more the better). I've also heard that kitty litter can be used if you get the clay kind.

So far I have filed and sanded the edge pretty much all the way (down to roughly a millimeter thick) before quenching and I haven't had any problems yet. Don't put a sharp edge on it though cause it probably will crack . You can put the final edge on it after tempering then.

Good luck, hope this helps.

great work sir. nothing better than making something that looks good and is useful out of "junk".

That's a fantastic looking Kukri! Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "heads will roll" :D