Forged from 5160 1/4" thick by 1 1/4" wide, steel from Uncle Al's. Handles are zebra wood stabilized and then hand sanded to 220 grit and coated with 3 layers of tung oil.

I need to work on my grinding and also on cleaning up the oil left one the blade in those pics is gone now

This is after forging it out.



Completed.





Thanks
Christopher

thats a great looking knife so much better then my first

very nice!

I love the wood used for the handle, very nice. Is that a piece of railway track for your anvil? o.O

the RR track is just one of many I mainly use a 4" round 4' tall piece of solid round stock with a 1 1/2" flat plate welded to the top as my main anvil like object. can't afford a true anvil yet

thanks for the comments, had all kinds of help on this one, and hopefully will learn from all the mistakes I made in this one. my main interest is blacksmithing fences and decorative work, but knives are fun and sharp :)

That's a grand knife! Good job!!!

Gene

the RR track is just one of many I mainly use a 4" round 4' tall piece of solid round stock with a 1 1/2" flat plate welded to the top as my main anvil like object. can't afford a true anvil yet

thanks for the comments, had all kinds of help on this one, and hopefully will learn from all the mistakes I made in this one. my main interest is blacksmithing fences and decorative work, but knives are fun and sharp

O.O Dood, that sounds like a SOLID piece. I know they're supposed to be heavy so they don't move but, crap monkey 4' of 4" round stock and 1-1/2" plate on top of that @.@ Good idea though. Need to start piecing things together for my own temporary set up any suggestions? And still, awesome first blade. Hope my first piece can look even half as good

as for starting out, just build a forge, which can be build for hardly nothing, with a forced air burner or a venturi (forced air seems easier to me) and start hammering.

fair play, man. that's a wonderful first knife!!! congrats :)