norrin_radd Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Last year I made this throwing knife from a hay mower blade.I did a quick slideshow/video on it. It throws good enough for me. Had someone ask if I was going to do a vid on how I forged it. So I decided to try to make another one. Also got me to thinking about the couple of other knives that I have made out of these mower blades( karambit, viking/blacksmith ) I intend to try videos of those too, just for grins. So if you have 21 minutes to kill watching a newb hammer hot steel, I got ya covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caotropheus Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Nice video.I see that I am not the only one using "agricultural steel"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrin_radd Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Hey thanks! Never heard it called that but I like it. Yeah, over the years there has been quite an accumulation of rusty things around here. Makes all my mistakes a little less painful on the pocket book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrin_radd Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 This is part 2 the grinding. Not much to it, not near as cool as the forging, but I just wanted to show my whole process. IMHO grinding knives is a lot like baseball. Pretty fun when you're out there doing it, but a real snoozer when you're watching someone else do it on tv. No offense to any baseball fans, or knife makers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrin_radd Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) Tried to post link to vid but it wont take. Guess there is a limit or something. Edited June 30, 2015 by norrin_radd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.J.watts Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 cool idea, I have about a dozen of those blades and have been wondering what to do with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 TJ, if you put streamer on them like a pull taste the would become darts. Much less skill to throw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrin_radd Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) cool idea, I have about a dozen of those blades and have been wondering what to do with them.Thanks, I have a BUNCH of these things. Should be fun forging for a while. I think the next one I will do a vid on is a karambit like this one I made a while back, but with a handle and an edge. Sure wish I could post a link to the heat treat and function test of that throwing knife here, it just does not like it though. Edited July 7, 2015 by norrin_radd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norrin_radd Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) TJ, if you put streamer on them like a pull taste the would become darts. Much less skill to throwI will have to try this, make them easier to find in the grass too. Edited July 7, 2015 by norrin_radd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Ag steel is good stuff, generaly. Disk harrows provide not only disks but 1"+ square stock that is hardenable, spring harows and their "teath" as well as plow points and othe soil "cutting" edges, mower blades are just part of it. Ad a tasle and make you "knife" a "dart" it reduces the rang but it takes out the spin so it reduces the "skill" nesisary to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Munz Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Hi, this is another wonderful way to recycle steel. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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