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Handle material or Hood ornament

3 metals and wood ,good combo.

Cool stuff.

File teeth are better suited for bowies and rough type knives, I say go for the clean look. Just my opinion , I like the file look just not on that one. Mark

Nice looking set of knives, be proud.:D

1971 ASM Heat Treating, Cleaning and Finishing 4340 austenitising temp.-1500-1550F BHN-standard ball 285= 29.9 rockwell C-scale 150-kg load brale penetrator, temper 2 hours at 1200 degrees F, from austenitising temp. of 1500F quenched in oil, for section size 1/2" This book gives hardness scale conversion charts but just happened to find a chart with your steel selection. They say normalize@ 1600F for a BHN of 388 1/2" bar dia. From Bethlehem Steel ,temper 1100-1225F Hope this is helpful Mark

Make a simple arrow and wrap it so the two ends overlap. I used to do these in silver. Mark

Glad to see you're havin' some fun. That's serious work for the rest of us.;)

Your choice of materials and workmanship compliment each other, not too flashy, shows your confidence, creativity, and expertise. Mark

Great proportions, some say smaller is harder to do?

I really like the shape-design. Whats an EDC?

Rich, You are a big help to me in learning to learn the basics, at your suggestion, chose one steel to learn, make a template and recreate it, TAKE NOTES, practice, etc. you've made me realize the importance of being meathodical. With the electrical trade I can approch a job look at it, and chose any number of ways to do it and to a large extent have stopped learning. With steel I want, almost expect, that freedom, but don't have the knowledge experience yet. Thanks for your continued support. Thomas, Appling what I read and making mistakes is essential to learning and I have a hard time accepting mistakes, I should say the fear of making mistakes makes me hesitant. I can accept them. Ecart, Thanks for that referance Hope this isn't all too personal, just helps to get feed back in finding my way. Thanks Mark

Reminds me of the '60's Seriously that is amazing. Looks like you're well on your way.

Leaf blower and router spd. control!! :cool: way to go! Forge On.

Thanks Robert and Glenn This helps in my understanding. One thing I've realized is that my ability and need to understand this complex subject has a limit. I'm trying to find the limit and I'm close, I think, and rethink, read and reread. I find contradictions in all the sources I research which raises questions. I think a lot of it is learning to learn. Mark

You've developed a style all your own, I like the clip point in your blades. The first one looks like it has a deep hollow grind near the plunge then flattens out closer to the point, if so could you describe how you do it. Thanks Mark

This is related to my "Forging and strength" thread. I started reading studying metallurgy as related to bladesmithing in the "80's. and have been mostly off until recently, I'm a slow learner, so bear with me. I remember somewhere along the line that lightly hammering the edge at a dull red would refine the grain (aus forging?) Actually I forgot this until recently when I read from a forum that the heat treat erased any grain refinement at the dull read stage. That's what prompted the F and S thread. My knowledge of this edge packing aus forging is very vague, I searched first. So is there such a thing as aus forging? Edge packing? Mark

I thought that forging metal aligned the grain to conform to the shape of the object and adding strength to the piece? Soon as you heat treat this alignment is gone? If this correct the only advantage to forging is the ability to shape the knife.( it's fun too) :confused: Mark

Has a real elegant look, very good.

This bayonet has been around here for a long time don't know anything about it. Didn't know about this blade style more pics in the gallery.