Check out my Home-made knives
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:04 am
check out my small collection of homemades:
and my 2 most recent:
I made these in a friends LPG forge, they are made of car leaf spring steel,
so they are very very tough, and very very sharp. each knife individually took me about 8 hours to make, as the steel starts as a thick block, which needs to be heated till its orange and hammered out before it gets cold, over and over, until it looks like the knives here. To get them shiny, i belt sanded the blemishes off.. the black spots still need to be worked off, they are dents in the steel.
Only one knife has a handle, the others i havnt got around to putting a handle on them yet.
the one with the patterns (at the top)(and the only one with the handle), is made of 4 different types of steel, pattern forged/welded, just like the traditional Japanese swords, although i didn't fold mine 16 times, just 5 times, but that still makes 160 layers of different steel. With modern steels, i don't believe that folding the steel is necessary for strength anymore, as the modern compounds are so pure and perfected, that it is as strong as you would ever need it without folding. But i think the different layered steel effect is a very pretty one. I gave this knife to my girlfriend :] she loved it.
and my 2 most recent:
I made these in a friends LPG forge, they are made of car leaf spring steel,
so they are very very tough, and very very sharp. each knife individually took me about 8 hours to make, as the steel starts as a thick block, which needs to be heated till its orange and hammered out before it gets cold, over and over, until it looks like the knives here. To get them shiny, i belt sanded the blemishes off.. the black spots still need to be worked off, they are dents in the steel.
Only one knife has a handle, the others i havnt got around to putting a handle on them yet.
the one with the patterns (at the top)(and the only one with the handle), is made of 4 different types of steel, pattern forged/welded, just like the traditional Japanese swords, although i didn't fold mine 16 times, just 5 times, but that still makes 160 layers of different steel. With modern steels, i don't believe that folding the steel is necessary for strength anymore, as the modern compounds are so pure and perfected, that it is as strong as you would ever need it without folding. But i think the different layered steel effect is a very pretty one. I gave this knife to my girlfriend :] she loved it.
