September 20, 201312 yr Finished up these 3 knives this week. This blade was from a rasp. The handle is micarta with stainless hardware and blue liner Another rasp blade with brass hardware, cocobola, and spacers This blade was forged from 2 forge welded pieces of cable with 2 pieces of bandsaw blade seperating it. The handle is ebony, malachite spacer, and stainless hardware
September 20, 201312 yr Very nice! With the rasp knives do you anneal and then grind the primary bevels, in the process removing the teeth?
September 20, 201312 yr Author Very nice! With the rasp knives do you anneal and then grind the primary bevels, in the process removing the teeth? Yes. I annealed them in vermiculite overnight then ground them down to remove the teeth and expose the 2 patterns. The rest was stock removal.
September 23, 201312 yr Really nice. What kind of band saw blades? We haves two large HEM saws at work and I have a lot that I use for fabrication spacers.
September 23, 201312 yr Author the bandsaw blade was from a metal cutting bandsaw and was given to me.
September 23, 201312 yr Beautiful design, fit and finnish, but as a knife user I have never liked that kind of blad transition. As you sharpen the blade it becomes a projection that has to be grount down. I find this on chef knives all the time.
September 25, 201312 yr I looked in to what Lenox saw blades are made of. They wouldn't tell me exactly what is was but the teeth are high speed steel and the backing is spring steel. I asked if it was 1095 cause it hardened the same and the guy chuckled and said I was really close. Don't know if this helps anyone but I'm pretty sure it's 1095 or 1075.
September 25, 201312 yr Beautiful work. I especially like the first knife. I use one very similar to that when skinning game and absolutely love the blade shape. Very impressive work.
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