aparadi
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Thanks Frosty!
I'll look up what products are good for stabilizing the wood.
BTW - I have plans to make one of your burners sometime soon!
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Thanks for the idea Thomas - I'll keep that in my back pocket for the next time I mess up a fitting!
Good point about the 'old' oak -
Thanks for the ideas! I did use epoxy all inside the hidden tang and between the wood and copper spacer, but none between the spacer and the guard. I also didn't clamp it lengthwise while gluing it - I assumed the pins would hold it well enough (they were hard enough to get in!)
I used very old oak that's been sitting in a garage for 30 years or so for the handle. Just used boiled linseed oil on it. Given how dry the wood would have been I would think it's more likely to expand than contract?
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Hi all.
I made my first knife and it's "OK". I have limited tools (no welding options, no taps for threading, no lathe, no drill press). I went with a hidden tang approach but wanted to have a separate piece for the guard. I was struggling with getting the handle on there tight enough to keep the guard nice and tight though. The slot I filed in the guard was a little looser than I would have wanted and allows for some 'wiggle' along the long axis. I figured that the flat top of the handle pressing against it would prevent that wiggle. I used steel 'rivets' for a mechanical bind - and it was really tight when I was hammering them in during the glue-up.But a couple of weeks later the guard has started to wiggle ever so slightly again.
It is just not feasible to build a rock solid guard the way I tried to do it? -
Thanks JHCC!
Sounds like making a machete is the perfect project for my second ever knife and a "forge" that is only 1 brick deep I'm not expecting great things from my final result -
Thanks Thomas! I'll check with my mechanic so see if they have anything! Sorry for the @ option - why do people not like that? I don't get notifications from iforge when someone replies, so I thought that the @ would help with that.
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Thanks We're in a lock-down right now, so getting different steel isn't as easy as it once was. Maybe I'll wait until I can get it more easily and make something else instead.
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Thank you for the replies - I didn't realize that iForge wasn't sending me notification when people replied so I just saw the responses now!
I ended up getting some el-cheapo firebrick (not the soft kind) from Rona and and use a bernzomatic torch hooked up to my bbq propane tank. The interior is only one brick thick and maybe a couple of inches wide, but it's been enough to make a bunch of napkin rings with leafs on them and to heat treat a stock-removal knife.
I used some charcoal for a big enough fire to make some really really ugly tongs.
But I've found some suppliers for kaowool and refractory cement etc, and found that my brother in law has a drill press as well as a wielder, so I think I'll make a propane-tank forge at some point! -
Hi all.
I have some .125 inch x 12" x 1.5" 1095 stock (bought some blanks for knives), but I'm thinking of making a machete. I was going to forge out the tang and would have to draw out the rest of the blank which will result in a pretty thin machete. It's only going to be used for fairly light camping type work. Which I believe means I'll need some pretty springy steel.
Will 1095 work for what I want?
I'm new to forging and knife making, so I have limited tools, but let me know if there is anything else I should consider? I have quenched my other knives with Canola Oil. I'm unsure how well it worked.
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I'm looking to get into forging more and I'm finding myself on the fence here too. The lightweight insulating firebricks seem to be about $10-$15 each. To build a reasonable sized forge for making fun things and maybe some blades it looks like I would need about 8 - 10 bricks. I think I would likely buy a burner. And then miscellaneous angle irons etc would bring me up to about $250 or so. And it looks like I can buy one for about $300.
Given how difficult it is to get materials as a downtown Torontonian I'm leaning towards buying. Even finding non-brickette charcoal is tough enough around here (and cost a lot in fuel). It seems to me like my cheapest option is to buy one.
I don't have a welding skills or supplies.
Am I missing something? Thoughts?
Hidden tang with no pommel nut = loose guard?
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Nice! Thanks for the tip. I have linseed oil, so I can try that!