Well, as promised, here is my first forged knife. It was forged at a friend's shop. (he's one of our Forged In Fire champions from here in central, Oklahoma) I did all the work…………..with his verbal guidance, of course. Thanks to him for that because I could never have done it without his help. (and his forge, anvil, hammer and HT oven) It is made of 80 CRV2 and heat treated in his oven. (I don’t have all the equipment I need to be doing this yet.)
First two pictures of the rough forged knife. I didn’t find out until later I’d forged hollows on both sides of the blade, so it ended up being a narrower blade from top to bottom by the time I got the bevels ground in.
Third picture is of the design I planned, based on the forged shape.
Fourth pictures is of the blade after I’d ground and skeletonized it.
Fifth and Sixth are of the finished knife.
So there you go. My first forged knife. I had a ton of “firsts” with this knife…………so many I won’t bore you with them all. Can’t begin to tell you how much I learned in the process. There are things I’m not terribly happy about, but like I told David………….”Hey, it’s my first forged knife!”.
So now it’s time for me to pour a cup of coffee, sit down and ask all of you knife makers to honestly critique my work.
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