Hi all, this is my first attempt at forging a RR spike knife,
let me know what you think. Actually this is the first thing
I have ever forged. The knife took me many hours and kind
of took on a life of it's own... this it how it came out. I'll start
my next one in a few days.

Very, very nice Iron City! A great first forging.Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing more.

Mitch

Excellent first forging. You're hooked now. No known cure.

Wow xxxx that is good, nice going mate keep up the work!

If that is your first try I look forward to watching your progression. I still have my first try around somewhere and its NOTHING like that!!

Sweet, how much grinding/sanding did you end up doing?

That's a good start IC. Make sure you are having fun too. bruce

Thanks for the input everyone I appreciate it. I showed the knife to a few people and they didn't seem real impressed so I was a little hesitant to put it up on the forum, I am glad I did. M Brothers, to answer your question...ALLOT, I just kept on grinding and sanding till it looked respectable. I tried bluing it with Birchwood Casey Perma Blue but I did not like the way it looked so I took it off.

Like I stated before, I'm very new at the whole forging-knife making thing and I don't even know what questions to ask that would help me along. again thanks for the comments.

I think those who you showed it to, that weren't real impressed, are just jealous.

Great job.


Mitch

That's a great knife, especially for your first one. You seem to pay attention to detail nice work!!