I don't know anything about making knives, so forgive my ignorance, but what's all over the blade in the 2nd pic?
It’s a clay that prevents the heat from penetrating the metal as deeply versus the bare metal. It makes the spine softer and edge harder which makes an awesome knife!
It’s a clay that prevents the heat from penetrating the metal as deeply versus the bare metal. It makes the spine softer and edge harder which makes an awesome knife!
Sierracharlie out…
Looking great Jason!
Yes, It keeps the sine softer and "receives" a blow better. The orginial Bowies had a brass or soft casing over the spine for fighting so if you blocked a blow, it wouldn't break your blade. Hence, the hand guards as well.
This will be nice Jason, looking forward to seeing! I made one years back out of Damascus, brass guards and ironwood handles - this gives me the itch to put one in the works!
I don't know anything about making knives, so forgive my ignorance, but what's all over the blade in the 2nd pic?
Just WD 40 and grit slurry. Tried to make hand sanding interesting in a picture I've got a nice video of the final hand sanded blade, just need to upload it.
Steel is W2. There's a decent hamon in this blade, about 1/3 of the way from the spine, about 6" down the blade. Haven't etched it out yet. Still at least 2 more days worth of work on this knife, maybe 3.
Handle fittings are 1872 railroad rail wrought iron. There will be an 1836 silver half dollar in between, when I get to it. Fittings will be fluted and blued.
Just WD 40 and grit slurry. Tried to make hand sanding interesting in a picture I've got a nice video of the final hand sanded blade, just need to upload it.
Steel is W2. There's a decent hamon in this blade, about 1/3 of the way from the spine, about 6" down the blade. Haven't etched it out yet. Still at least 2 more days worth of work on this knife, maybe 3.
Handle fittings are 1872 railroad rail wrought iron. There will be an 1836 silver half dollar in between, when I get to it. Fittings will be fluted and blued.
I buggered the replies up the page. The others are correct, pic #2 is clay to induce the hamon, as they described. The picture I commented about wasn't the one that was asked about. Long Monday, lol.
Looking good as always Jason. Tell that slouchy Travis he needs more shop time and produce some knives.
Travis is in the middle of tearing his shop down. They close on selling their Katy house at the end of January. They're moving to Austin area, and haven't found a house up there yet. I bet it'll be a while before he's back up and running, considering that he doesn't yet know exactly where he's going to end up.
Travis is in the middle of tearing his shop down. They close on selling their Katy house at the end of January. They're moving to Austin area, and haven't found a house up there yet. I bet it'll be a while before he's back up and running, considering that he doesn't yet know exactly where he's going to end up.
If he wants to get some shop time he can spend time in my meek “shop” I’d be glad for the lessons [emoji16]
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