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First Knife


Dakman72

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This my first post. I'm 17 and have been forging for about a year and a half. I feel like I have the basics down, well, as well as someone can who's been forging for year and a half. But practice makes perfect right? :P Anyway I had made a few railroad spike knives like most people do to start and I felt like making something a little more grown up. It started as a large two handed file that I cut in half. I hammered out the tip first and then forged out the taper. Then I did the bevels. I was going for kind of a hunting knife style and it came out how I wanted. I ground out the tang on the bench grinder and filed and sanded down the blade before heat treat. I just used warm water. When I tested the blade with a sharp file it skated across like I've read it was supposed to do after a successful heat treat. I tempered the spine to a light purple and did the tip and edge to wheat brown. Finished sanding down to a mirror finish and buffed it out on the buffing wheel. The handle is a hidden tang style stuck into deer antler. The guard is brass as well as the butt cap, which is pinned with copper, which I thing is a nice contrast of color. All in all I like it and am proud of how it turned out. Sorry for the long read but I know you guys like knowing how it was done. How about some pictures of it? :D

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Hope yall like it! (sorry for the not awesome picture quality)

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Thank you for all the compliments! The blade itsself is 4" long, tip to guard, and 1.25" at the widest point, spine to edge. From tip to butt, in a straight line, it's 9" long. The spine I feel like is where i messed up the most. I ground to much off leaving it 1/8" thick at the back of the spine to just less that 1/32" at the tip. But that's just one more thing to fix next time I guess. :lol:  I'm always learning and that's part of the fun to me. Here is the spine

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Hope yall enjoy!

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The reason I feel like i got caried way with the grinding is becasue I didn't want the file teeth to show, and i was a little to worried about the final finish and how it would look, which led to the thin spine. But like I said, just something I'll have to be aware of, and to fix next time.

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