Zrognak

Hello, and hope everyone is having a good day, I found this forum today was happy I was able to join, so thank you to the person I got in contact with over facebook. Im from the northern parts of Sweden, live in a small village out in the wilderness, I always loved metal, I may not be a professional blacksmith but I have a passion for it, it is a hobby for now cause im focusing on my jewelry education and production and I could not make a living from the crap I put out as a blacksmith. I love how many talented and helpful people there are on the forums, as well as all the awezome creations you people create and post, thank you it will keep me busy for hours Cheers!

So I seen a lot of knives on the forums, insanely talented bunch of people here, I will be going through so many threads tonight I want to see it all. I myself im not a blade smith more of a jack of all trades i guess, I do carpentry, jewelry and blacksmithing, I made a few knives over the years I don't sell knives, I might in the future though when I feel like I can make a knife that will hold and is good enough, but thought I should share two of my knives that I made recently or within 2 years only made 2 knives the past 2 years so not much to share, anyway here they are. critiques are welcome. So I needed a small hunting knife its for birds mostly. So i made this for myself. Wish I used smaller pins on this one. Knife 01 Its made from scrap steel, wood is just flame birch, the sheath is made from veg tanned leather (first sheath i actually made) Knife 02 This is a fun project, I needed a special carving knife, the bevel is convex. Its made from scrap as well, found everything except for the buffalo horn piece. its moose antler and birch burl for the handle As I said I don't sell knives, not good enough for that yet, want to be sure the knives I make hold up a lifetime, and I know I should not use scrap steel for knives, but its just for my own use and it is cheap stuff to practice on. Cant wait to see more creations on this forum from people, like I said Im having a blast cause there are so many things to see. Cheers!

I love this show, not only because its about blacksmithing but there is no fake drama xxxxxxxx like with other crafting shows like faceoff, its just all fun, seen a lot of talented smiths win and lose on that show, great people, great show. I could never finish a knife in the time they do it, or at least I don't believe so. Does not mean I would not jump at the chance to give it a go ha ha.

I got a few of these, I live in Sweden so I cant say it will be the same everywhere, but from what i seen they are all iron haven't found any that are made from steel, I would save em though, could maybe make a cool laminated sandwich knife with steel in the middle, never tried this myself but I could imagine that if etched it could be pretty cool depending on what kind of iron it is. I save everything I find, specially old iron if it is wrought iron I can make all kinds of cool stuff from it, mjölnir pendants bolsters and stuff.

Dam that looks great, I always got a soft spot for low layered patterns. Good work.

Clean looking knives, looks good man.

Xxxx that is pristine, really good work I have only ever done one pattern welded blade, never finished it so this is like magic to me, so clean.

This is beautiful awezome stuff

looks awezome

Cool, always wanted to try it out, I always wanted to make a wood carving axe, could make a good one from a hammer maybe, have the edge be a soft chisel type of grind, like where one side is almost flat and the other side has a bevel.

I see that is cool, well i always listen to anyone who has knowledge to share so its all good.

Doubt anyone live next to the arctic circle in the northern parts of Sweden. Im not a professional myself, I do blacksmithing as a hobby, mostly as said done bigger things like knives and larger tools for carpentry, Im starting school for silversmiths in august so I needed some wax tools for wax carving, but yea see a lot of good information on the forums, reason I signed up cause It seems like the best place to get answers. Its all good man, good luck with your seax I really love to see you finish it let me know when you do cause love those types of blades. Interesting, thank you for sharing. Not a professional here, its what I have always used If i want more springiness(is that a word, anyway) from my tools, never heard of blue embrittlement before, to be fair it was more purple-ish in color when i took it out of the oven, had the tools pieces covered in sand. But like i said not a professional reason i came here, so thank you for sharing your knowledge, would 200c been better? They turned out ok though from what i seen so far, they skate files and they flex like a spring, but we will see if they will break, since im using these myself im not worried about that. But I want to improve if they do break, so any tips are always welcome cause I want to become better. I know I will use these to carve wax so they wont have much strain on em but still want to make the best I can. Like I said not a professional but Ill get there eventually. here are some pictures Sorry 2nd pic is a bit blurry, but its for size referance.

Wanted to ask a question on how to heat treat really small tools, im making myself some jewelry wax carving tools the metal part that sticks out of the handle are at 1 to 3 cm long, some are 0.3mm and others are 1-3 mm thickness, I could take a picture of em but they are in the oven for tempering right now, just hope I didn't mess everything up, reason im asking. I used 1095 for the tools that are smaller and need to be flexible and O1 tool steel for the thicker pieces chisels and such, I used a propane torch to heat them up before quenching in oil, then im tempering at 300 celsius. was really careful and heated the thicker parts first before getting a even heat of each piece. I never heat treated these small pieces before and was wondering if maybe it would have been better to air quench or what ever it is called, Im used to doing larged pieces like knives and chisels for wood but these are so small. If i messed em all up ill make new ones.