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On 1/28/2020 at 3:39 AM, pnut said:

 I would suggest that you look into handle design so you can make handles from scales and other materials and not just wrapped handles. 

 

Totally forgot to respond to this part pnut but the short sword is actually the only knife ive ever made with a draped handle, and that was because the customer specifically asked for it based of a picture his wife made. The kriss dagger has a stacked leather handle and all the othe knife pictures ive uploaded have wood handles.

Thats real cool. Ill have to see if i can find a way to do that.

Ya i might be able to convince my dad to let me use it in the garage but i think im just gonna make a little roof and set it up under that. And Take it down when its to rainy, cold, snowy. Thats the nice think about this forge. It has a handle and is pretty light, granted its also pretty small. But it should defiantly work for what i intend to use it for.

Dont worry pnut i made sure it was rigidized. Its literally the cheapest forge on amazon and will prob not get up to forge welding heat but it has good reviews and i have confidence if will at least alow md to do some forging while its raining/freezing cold out side. Because until now ive heen forging in a homade charcoal forge that i made from a cast iron sink, gravle and sand. And i use my shop vac as a forge blower.  

Well i don't know if this is totally accurate but i once heard that propane forges can slowly draw carbon out of high carbon steel. Whild coal, coke, and wood forges can slowly increase the carbon content. Don't take my word for it though, like i said im not totally sure. 

I started work on a knife for my cousin. All i did was cut a leaf spring down to size and did a little stock removal with my angle grinder. The rest will have two wait till Friday wjen my new propane forge will be here. Not really interesting but thought i might participate.  

I use ear protection and safety glasses wild forging as well as a mask wile grinding. 

That is what i did for the above mentioned knives that ive already sold. I found a handmaid fnife of about the same size and subtracted some from it because of the lesser quality of my work. That brought me to $80. 

Dont worry pnut i will. 

Ok well i have an angle grinder and i can cut metal pretty fast with that thing. Thanks for the advice again!  

 Hi guys i need prayers for a girl at our church that has type two diabetes. Her health is kinda random and ome day she feals totally fine then the next she's in the hospital barely dodging death.  I would seriously appreciate it if shd was prayed for. I believe that she can live a full life with the help of God and when two or more are gathered in prayer He is there.

Tanks for all the advise ThomasPowers! This will definitely be helpful! I just orderd my first propane forge and it will be here by Friday so that should make it easier to get a consistent heat on the entirety of the blade. Also i don't currently have any coil springs and i could get one or two sooner or later but o was wondering if I could use leaf spring for the same thing. I mean i wont be able to do the whole cutting along the diameter and drawing out and stuff but this is the same alloy that i plan to use for alot of my knives and i can still do the heat treatment/quenching, normalizing, non-magnetic, etc. 

ya i have made one that i intended to keep but it ended up breaking. i didnt no what normalizing steel was at that time though and the hrain size was much to large for a knife. it was made of a lawn mower blade but i dont know exactly what the carbon content was. but was most likly 1050 carbon steel like most lanmower blades. i amaplaning on using peices of a large leaf spring i got from a fellow smith for further knife making. i also dont know what the exact carboj content is. do u know how i can find out? i mean i know its high carbon spring steel but if i was teying to sell online or somthing i might want to market it as a certan type of steel.

oh sorry i didnt even think abaut the fact that alot of u guus are pronably in other countreis! im in the USA so i would likd the answear in US dollers buf if u give an answear in another curency i could just run it through google anyway and find out what its worth. about the tests i usualy chop a litfle wood with a knives i make and do sharpness tests like paper cut tests. also the reply to pnut i usuly put myself at $7.50 an hour since thats Idaho's minimum wage.

thanks JHCC! that is a very hepful page that i will ne using! 

thanks for your concern Glenn but im in Idaho, knives are my states favorite. There realy arnt any laws on selling kives other than that it is totally legal for anyone over the ahe of 12 to buy any knife and u can have any knife over 4" blade length open carry and its totally legal (unless ur on scool ground of course). Again thanks for your concern and for all of u guys' help. 

i do have another queston though. if i was able to get my knives ro a broader auddiance of buyers, how muck would i want to sell for?

I was wondering if any of you more experience smiths and knife makers know how i can knos when i knife is good enough to sell. I dont have a ton of experience (I'm only 14 after all) and i don't think i am that good but ive succeeded in selling two blades so far. But those were sold to famly and friends and i dont know if i could get it out to more people and if they would buy. While we're at it i was wondering how much to sell for. The two i sold were both custom orders and were sold for a specific price that was mostly unrelated to the time it took to make them. 

This is my first post and i apologize for any spelling errors. And just so ya know the kriss dagger was a custom order and sold for $80 and the other knife/sword was based off a drawing and sold for 100. It is also impossible to mention that rhe sword is not tempered or sharpened and was made with the intention of it being a wall hang. The kriss dagger is fully functional, shaped, and tempered. Though it was made using purely stock removal techniques.