Spots Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 These are going into a custom order. Large 17" bowies, hidden tangs. 1084 steel, hand forged. These are the rough ground blanks, the back will be left forged finish, with a 600 grit finish on the bevels. Flat ground edge, clip is convex ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I love those shapes well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switchjv Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Those things are huge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spots Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 Those things are huge! Those are actually smaller than most of my bowies. My normal bowie has a 13" blade, so those are an inch shy of that. I like big knives lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosox Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Those are superb blades. When did you start making those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spots Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 Those are superb blades. When did you start making those? Like how long per blade? I started with a piece of barstock 8:30 am or so, and had both of them forged, rough ground, normalized, and hardened by 4:00 pm. I'll have probably 10-12 hours in both by the time I'm done doing handles, guard, and final grind If you asking how long I've been forging blade shapes like that, for about 6 months, but I've only really focused on anything other than forge finished knives made for myself in the last 3. I just really got into the grinding stuff. I've been working around a forge since I was a kid, though a lot of it was just making and fixing stuff for our homestead, nothing fancy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman50 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 They are outstanding! http://www.sawblade.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoRockNazz Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Love the size. Have you tried any differential hardening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spots Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 Love the size. Have you tried any differential hardening? With clay to get a hamon, or just differentially hardening? I use Tai Goos.method of going deep edge first then pulling back to allow the back to cool slower, and having a hard edge. Then depending the knife Ill either temper in an oven or i will also differentially temper in the forge drawing the back to a blue and the edge to a straw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosox Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Like how long per blade? I started with a piece of barstock 8:30 am or so, and had both of them forged, rough ground, normalized, and hardened by 4:00 pm. I'll have probably 10-12 hours in both by the time I'm done doing handles, guard, and final grind If you asking how long I've been forging blade shapes like that, for about 6 months, but I've only really focused on anything other than forge finished knives made for myself in the last 3. I just really got into the grinding stuff. I've been working around a forge since I was a kid, though a lot of it was just making and fixing stuff for our homestead, nothing fancy that explains everything. I've been here in iforgeiron for like half a year already. I'm hanging out around here to learn a lot of stuff. But I wasn't not around for awhile for some reasons. Post more projects here . Those blades are sharp.! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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