Nydhog

3 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

"You can lead a horse to water; but you can't make it conjugate irregular verbs in Ancient Greek".

 

This may be the best thing I have ever read online lol.

4 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

however what did you expect when you imply that you can't make a simple tool but want to do a complex project like a knife?

 

That's not how I had intended it. I more meant it as "All I have at the moment is this".  I kind of suck at communication lol.   I appreciate you posting your take on the spring fuller by the way and am going to play around with that this weekend hopefully.

3 hours ago, Steve Sells said:

too bad there are not any online classes posted somewhere than explains all this stuff

3 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

The stickies you have labored over in the knifemaking sections are a massive resource for people starting out; but lack of "reading the faq" dates back to the old ascii net news days...

 

Noted!  I will in the future scour the FAQ section before requesting help.  I appreciate the help that has been posted, however :-).

On 2/7/2018 at 9:26 AM, JHCC said:

The swelling at the edges is also quite typical of what happens when you hammer on the edges of a bar......

 

I hope you didn't take me as being disrespectful towards Thomas!  I meant no disrespect at all!  I very much appreciate his, and everyone else who spoke up, advice.  All I was stating was at the moment the only tools I currently have.  I plan on making a spring fuller this weekend.

Lol you sure are a master curmudgeon, ain't ya ;-).  I have made other tools.  I make what I need no problem.  I haven't had a need for a spring fuller as of yet.  Now I need one so now I'll make one.  I just recently got into knives and am only honestly messing around with them using scrap.

Thanks guys!  The only tools I really have access to at the moment are anvil, coal forge, and a hammer lol.

So when I am putting the tang onto a billet I am running into the issue of a dip on both sides the knife where the tang starts.  Almost like it is buckling inward.  Not sure what is causing it.  You can see it somewhat in the attached photo.  I used an old beat up billet to practice some stuff on.  Could it be I am not drawing the metal out enough before starting the tang?