Coil spring to knife

[robert garcia]

As many of you know I hand forge 99.9% of my knives. I get lots of requests for a build along. So...
Cut off small segments of the spring. I usually start with small 4"-5" segments to make a 10-12" knife

1st heat

straighten the curved cut off

Pretty straight

shaping round stock to flat bar

one down, one to go

time to start forging the blades

shaping the tip on the Utility knife

shaping the tip on the Scalper

Spine side of the blade is thinned a bit, causing the curve you see. The cuttining edge will be on the inside of the curve.


Thinning the cutting edge on the Utility . See? no more curve.


Same thing on the Scalper.


Bevels are forged and now the blades are curved in opposite direction. Time to do a little straightening.

Blades straightened pretty close to final shape. Now time to work on handles


Using the cross peen to stretch out the handle a bit


handles stretched, flattened and shaped


a little detail hammering to get rid of most of the hammer marks on the handles, put my mark on the blades and a few passes on the grinder before normalizng


Break time!

[Kevin Smith]

Awesome, I'll be watching this one.

[Hookem84]

thats awesome!! cant wait for the rest

[Conquest]

very nice!

[Kevin Smith]

I assume the steel will be treated like 5160?

[hallp82]

wow!!! you are very talented.

[Fergeris]

Watching this is interesting

[MikeConner]

Watching this one. You forging guys have some skills for sure.

[Quackerbox]

Slick

[robert garcia]

I assume the steel will be treated like 5160?

Yup, I did a test heat treat from a piece of this spring and treating it like 5160 worked out.

[Bowtech38]

Very cool

[frazee3200]

Very very cool!!! Im in for the show

[Poco]

Sweet!! I especially like the break picture.

Ray

[Bjankowski]

Nice work Robert.

[SamHarper]

Very cool!