October 16, 20178 yr Hello everyone. Despite the numerous problems that occured throughout the process, this blade turned out successful. The customer loved it. Blade is 7 inches long, 11-1/2 inches overall. ~72 layers of O1 and 15N20 with "toxic green" kirinite scales, polished to 2000 grit. Epoxied on and pinned with two 3/16" and two 1/8" 303 stainless pins. The portion of the blade directly in front of the handle did not etch properly. I beleive this to be a heat treat issue (that part may have been colder than the rest of the blade during the quench.) The learning curve hit hard in this particular area. I am disappointed about it, but all in all, i am satisfied with the knife overall. Comments and critique are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Thanks for looking!
October 16, 20178 yr After some contacts with stews, roast beef and acid containing vegetables the etch will not matter anymore...whats left that matters is the blade geometry. And this geometry looks just fine....very well done!
October 18, 20178 yr Later, and if done on purpose, having that line match up with a ricasso could be a kinda neat feature?
October 19, 20178 yr On 10/15/2017 at 8:14 PM, ThomasPowers said: "that's where the fingers will pinch the blade and so would mess up the etch". It's a feature, not a bug!
October 19, 20178 yr Author 13 hours ago, Jclonts82 said: Later, and if done on purpose, having that line match up with a ricasso could be a kinda neat feature? That would definitely be interesting, but the knife is already finished and out of my hands, so no changing it now. 7 hours ago, JHCC said: It's a feature, not a bug! Yeah, sure. Lets go with that. Lol.
October 19, 20178 yr Will, As a maker (hobbiest) I know that that kind of result is frustrating as hell. Especially after the handle is on. I've had a couple billets have bad spots on them that wouldn't etch out until I either resanded the entire blade down or in one case annealed it and requenched it. I tend to do a lot of in progress etching every step of the way. Otherwise its quite a nice blade and well done.
October 21, 20178 yr Author On 10/19/2017 at 5:11 PM, Jspool said: Will, As a maker (hobbiest) I know that that kind of result is frustrating as hell. Especially after the handle is on. I've had a couple billets have bad spots on them that wouldn't etch out until I either resanded the entire blade down or in one case annealed it and requenched it. I tend to do a lot of in progress etching every step of the way. Otherwise its quite a nice blade and well done. Frustrating, indeed. But i suppose mistakes keep me going, keep me aspiring to, one day, make a perfect knife with 0 flaws (unlikely to ever happen lol!) Thank you for your kind words.
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