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Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!

Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

Nice Work!

This will be awesome. I look forward to receiving more knowledge from two obviously well versed smith's! My work has improved ten fold since I Joined this site. I owe most of my successes to this site. It's overwhelming how kind and willing all of you are to share knowledge and information! KUDO'S to all of you who have contributed to my learning. Thanks so much to Steve Sells and Rich Hale for getting this chat up and running. I highly encourage all new smiths young and old to participate and help make a great thing ever better!

Darren Robichaud, Loneforge Blades

That looks good....so does the Peter Wright beside it! Gobble it up man!

You're rough little users are quite spectacular! Another beautiful piece of work. Thanks for sharing!

I have some low temp solder.....HMMMM......that's a grand Idea. Thanks!

I don't use a vise for blade finishing.....I clamp the blade to a board and clamp the board to the bench. Then I do all my draw filing like that. Clamps are cheap and easy to find. Just a thought. Always anneal after forging and the finishing will be much easier. Cheers and enjoy!

I used an empty epoxy tube.....clean it out when empty .....one use for injecting. Or you can buy a dosing syringe for adminstering medicine to kids at any pharmacy.

Here is some mosaic pinstock I made the other night. Lanyard stock and welding rods with a pinch of black leather dye added to the epoxy.

Wow! That went together quite beautifully now didn't it. Great job!

Nice work.....Keep em comin!

Nice Job for a first Knife! Can't wait to see more! Welcome to IFI. This is an awesome site! Plenty of resources available!Thanks for sharing.

I have no grinder I use files and paper. ;)

I have been dabbling with the idea of a pin Theo. I have no mosaic pin stock. Although I do have welding rods and 1/4 lanyard stock.........hmmmmm???

I wouldn't call this a Knife Attempt,,,,,Let's call it a knife instead. Keep them coming. :)

I sandblasted the bluing off then give a light sanding!
I clean everything I weld. I try to eliminate all dirt and stuff.

126 layer twist with nickel silver and red micarta. Blade mat'l is 15N20 and pallet strapping. It heat treated well and seems nice and hard......we'll see about that after I give it a bunch of abuse! As you can tell the handle has not been glued or finished. I will post again when it's finished!

Wow, Nice job!

I used opposing layers of 1095,15N20 and 1084 powder to fill the voids.

A giant tree slung fish frying anvil? You boys writing a country song?

With two strikers myself and my silent shop partner Tim, we had this baby at welding heat for about 3 hours and twice as many gallons of water! Thanks again for the compliments! It does fuel my inner forge LOL!

The square tubing pictured is what I used for the can. I filled it with steel filled the voids with powdered steel and the YES I hammered it out by hand. Things guys have said would be difficult to do make it even more rewarding when completed. Yes I will be posting progress pics. I will adding the twist to this billet tomorrow night so more pics will be up soon!

Thanks for the encouraging words from all who posted! The Rousing helps big time!

Do steam calculations count Woody! Haha! Thanks buddy. All done with info provided by IFI members and friends!