Sam Salvati

Alan, I push square into it, there is a little bit of flash I grind off if I just slam it in, but if I feed and turn it a little feed and turn it fits in nice no flash. No need to take the sharp edges off, it was not a problem. They are for straights, not tapers. I made it from 4140. :D

Thanks Jim.

A craftsman can make 100 just alike or each as different as the next, an artist can make 100 all different.

Made up this swage today for use under the power hammer, it is for making triangular cross section stock, for use in some types of daggers or rondels. works great! Waste not want not, I used the bandsaw cuts as anvil devils (like a hardy cutter) and also tried one as a punch.

Thanks for the picture find John. Pritchel hardy is nice and handy, in line cuts or cut offs and anything in between. Nice and out of the way too and much easier to make from small stock.

Harden and extra temper the tang up and slightly past the ricasso shoulders.

Take Mr Helm's advice, utilize the window of opportunity right after the quench while the oil is still smoking on the blade to straighten, a 7-mississippi count in your oil then out to the open ready vice for tweaking. the transformation to full hard steel takes time.

I always thought about building a fullering tool like this, but never could pin down a design. Never could settle on what size for the dies, and how to make it. Mike and Peyton came up with this one. Problem solved, I could not make one of these as nice for the same price haha. Similar to the "godzilla" guillotine tool some smiths use. Has a nice adjustable depth stop, swings out of the way when not in use. Nice hardened pin to keep the hardy shank from rotating!

those look really good! Good Job.

I would be nervous doing it, but would do it under craig's hammer, never seen it's equal.

So you are going with a classic style tire hammer?

I dont know what it's like in you guys' parts of the world, but around here if someone leaves something by the curb it' up for grabs! If someone left something like that hammer out for a mailbox, they straight up dont deserve it so folks who would use it are honor bound to press it back into service.

Back home to my shop in NY and wanted to get some personal shop time in, did a bit of forging. I forged this integral from 3/4" round W1.

Fine splits for forks; if your london pattern heel only goes to 1.25" or 1" thick at the end that's the tightest smallest fork split you can make without making another tool, tight 180 degree bends, getting into tight spots like double shoulders (preform on tongs), I use the end of the heel as a buck for rivets in very tight spots. Personally, I prefer the horn and hardy on the left also.

I like what you did with the angle iron, nice skull crusher!

I have found, using both, that the double horn is more useful. Not much you can do with an london pattern you cannot do with a couble bick, and you cant do as much with a london patter as you can with a double bick.

Thanks Fellas!

flypress would be ideal!

Thanks man. FINISHED! 5160, 16 3/4" overall, 11 1/2" blade 5 1/4" handle 2" at the widest.

Ht'd this blade today, had to get creative with the Kiln hehe but it worked like a charm. I got some positive curvature WHICH ROCKS. I quenched from 1510F, at a 45 degree angle into room temperature oil edge first.

I got alot of raw rust at my place, when did they make it illegal? :P :) :) :) Tusk is not too hard to get, but it has to go through the right channels and have papers and stuff to be fully legal, not worth the bother to me personally, same for ivory too. I am gonna do some jigged bone instead of the antler, which I ruined sort of trying to make into scales.

Thanks fellas!

I caught some flak from my Lady about doing a stock removal piece, and I have been wanting a Sheffield style bowie for myself also, so I forged and ground this one out tonight after work. I milled and broach-fit the guard, and will final fit after heat treat. I am thinking stag scales with bronze pins. Hollow ground on a 14" wheel again. The old Sheffield bowies had cool stuff stamped on them, so I stamped mine True Make IT'S A BEAST

Hehe thanks fellas. Just some practice to keep me fresh hehe. Andrew, we got a couple machines in the shop with 14" they are BADER Space Savers.

I wanted to practice a hollow grind on a dagger blade, and I wanted a boot knife, so I ground this one out from some 1084. Ground on a 14" wheel.