steamingiron

Here is the finished blade, I plan on selling this piece so if anyone is interested please let me know. Constructive criticism is welcome.

Wow, those look awesome. I want to try and forge one of those sometime. Good job :)

I really like the profile of your blade so far. I am surprised at how thin it is already. It amazes me that it only "slightly" warped. This can easily be fixed according to what I've read on IFI. StormCrow wrote a detailed post on correcting such a warp. I don't recall the post it was contained in, but maybe he will pop in and direct you to the appropriate URL. Using his description of the methods involved, I did succeed in correcting a warped blade.

 

I'll try to explain it as simply as I can remember it. If I flub the details, I apologize in advance. Disclaimer: I am a novice, I do this for fun and the joy of forging. And have no intention of becoming a professional Bladesmith. 

 

Take a bar of steel, could be mild steel, sufficiently long enough for you to clamp your blade to. You also need two metal shims between the blade and the bar stock. The curve of the blade should be facing away from the bar stock. Place the shims far enough from the warp so that when you clamp the center of the warp, it will reverse the direction of the warp towards the bar stock. How much to reverse the curve I don't recall. I wouldn't place a shim near the hidden tang(unless that is the location of the warp), but near the ricasso and the other closer to the tip. To me, it was about trial and error. I had to temper it several times until I got it right. Temper the blade as normal. I used my kitchen oven when my wife was away. :lol: Good thing too, because the paint on my HF C-clamp produced some awful fumes.

 

I look forward to seeing your completed knife. How are you going to do the Runic symbols? Etching maybe?  

 

Robert

I did a method similar to that while tempering, but i did not do it correctly and the blade was still slightly warped. I've fixed it now though. Here it is in its current state, getting close to being done. I'm thinking about leaving rest black and only polishing the bevels, what do you think? Or should i just polish the whole blade? Thanks for the feedback and advice. ^_^

Fantastic looking, I could see these catching on. Good work!

Here it is after quenching, It came out slightly warped. I tryed to correct it during tempering but it didn't straighten completely. Not sure what to do. Should i re-do my all of my heat treating or just leave it. The curve is very subtle. Not quite sure what ill do.

That's a beauty, I love the the look of the hammerd in teeth on rasp knives.

Update:

Here's the forged blade, the edges have been trued up on the belt sander

The drawings look great! What phone model and what app?

Its an iphone and the app is called SketchBookX, it was free.

Here's the conceptual designs for this knife im going to be doing. The first picture i drew on my phone when I was imagining it and then the sketch i did. More pictures will be posted as I make progress. Stay tuned ^_^

Thats actually pretty decent for a first knife. First one I ever made was poorly tempered and broken in half whilst being thrown into a tree.

What's going on with the bolster, it looks oxidized from a lot of heat?

What was your process for making it?

I created the coloring around the bolster with a blow torch. I think it adds an interesting and unique look.

Here's a few pictures of my first attempt at forging a chefs knife. Let me know what you think and any improvements that you think could be made.