BIGJEEPMAN

Looks good. I have made 3, 1 looks real good, 1 looks almost like what I want and the last one looks bad. I am not upset with the results because these are my first forge knives. I cant wait to clean them up. I hope mine look as good as yours.

I knew better, just got sloppy. I was rushing just a little. I will get a stop bar and clamps and use them, and I have started to tape up the blade for safety. Thanks for the advice.

I have built a few neck knives and just like the looks. As for using a neck knife, I would take one as a back up for hiking, and camping. I love to make small knives, most of them are easier to use. I also like weird shapes and designs, I like to keep it fun.

Thanks guys. I must have did something right, I was reaming out the holes for the pins and the drill bit caught and spun the knife and I cut 4 fingers. 3 of my fingers have band aids and 1 just a small cut. I will be ok I used wood ashes to hold the heat in after annealing, it worked good.

Thank you guys, I thought I had did everything right, I just missed the annealing part. I knew that I had to temper it after I was done shaping my knife.

I built a wood forge in a old wheelbarrow, and had a good hot fire. I started running my knife blanks through my forge. All was good. My steel is old truck springs. They flattened out real fast. I went to drill my holes for the pins and found out that I couldn't drill through my knives. So back into the fire, took them out when they were orange, yellow, red. I ran a magnet over them and they would not stick. I started to drill my holes and couldn't drill them. My question is did I do something wrong? Went back to drill a blank and after my 2nd hole my bit started to howl. Question #1 Did I do something wrong? I did hammer a few rail road spikes down into knives. Question #2 If I make a small fire brick forge and use a map gas torch, will get my blades hot enough to heat treat? Question #3 I have been told and read that I need to heat oil up to 130 deg, and dunk knife into it to cool down then run it into a toaster oven at 400 deg for 1 hour and let cool then back in for 1 more hour. Does this sound right? Today I want to make a mini forge out of fire brick and a map gas torch. I would like to heat my knives up to heat treat them. Will this work for heat treating, and for taking out the temper? Thank you