Pault17 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) I am not a bladesmith, although forging the shapes of blades is fun. My welding teacher (who has let me sit through the last two evening classes at the local tech college) gave me a couple of files from the now-defunct machine shop (had to make room for the new cosmotology department you know:mad:) with the caveat that he wanted a knife-shaped-object made from one of them. Here is what I accoplished: Blade was forged to shape, draw-filed to final (thanks, Sam, for the inspiration), followed the whole line of heat treatment found in these pages/threads, tempered three times in the oven at 425 (golden tone on the blade). The guard is from 3/8 square copper bar (from the machine shop scrap bin), slit, drifted and filed to shape (thanks for the instruction on this, Frosty). The handle is some mystery asian hardwood, stained a dark cherry and laquered twice. I laquered the handle and guard and left the blade lightly oiled. Edited July 11, 2009 by Pault17 pictures didn't load first time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecart Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Hi Paul, long time no see. That's a pretty good looking dagger there. I'm hoping to try my hand at a double edged blade soon. The guard looks like it could be a bit tricky to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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