Hi everybody,
Having put my first post up recently I thought I'd show you guys a few of the knives I've made over the last year. I like working with recycled materials and native hardwoods mostly although I do also use "new" 01 carbon steel as well.
The first knife is my first attempt at knife making . I ground the blade from the handle end of an old kindling chopper which my dad had in the woodshed for years.( top picture) There was enough steel for two blades. I ground the blade with a single chisel bevel, flat on the back.
The handle on the first knife is blackthorn with pins of the same wood. I used home made black fibre liners and the whole package was held together with epoxy.
The second knife was made from a piece of Landrover leaf spring. It's very good steel but takes a lot of preparation, cutting, annealing, straightening, then grinding clean, and thats before you can cut the profile to shape.
I put a deep Scandi grind on this one and made the handle from a piece of scavenged oak that had some nice grain patterns on it.The pins are 3mm brass rod.
All my heat treating has been done in a home made forge which consists of a large coffee tin lined with fire clay. This is charcoal fuelled with a hole in the side to blow air through and light it up with a gas torch.
Here's another recycled steel knife. This one was an old file, blackthorn handle and pins. The sheath was from a piece of thin leather which my son got off ebay.Needs to be thicker really.
This is one of my favourite knives to date. 3mm 01 carbon steel copper, fibre, and Ceanothus (Californian lilac) handle. I love the colour of that wood, the handle is a very comfortable shape.
Here's the first stick tang I made. Landy leaf spring, ebony and maple with an ebony pin.
Old file blackthorn and brass. Full flat grind with a small secondary bevel.
"Substantial" file and yes you've guessed it, blackthorn handle with brass pins.
I just love the graining on this wood. Full flat grind. Its got a hamon of sorts although its poorly defined because the clay desintergrated a bit during the quench.
This one was rescued from a blade that cracked during the quench which is why the profile is so narrow. burr elm on old file. Copper pins.
This is what has occupied most of my free time over the last year, when I'm not out and about. Hope you like at least one of them. Comments welcome.
Best regards.
David
Having put my first post up recently I thought I'd show you guys a few of the knives I've made over the last year. I like working with recycled materials and native hardwoods mostly although I do also use "new" 01 carbon steel as well.
The first knife is my first attempt at knife making . I ground the blade from the handle end of an old kindling chopper which my dad had in the woodshed for years.( top picture) There was enough steel for two blades. I ground the blade with a single chisel bevel, flat on the back.
The handle on the first knife is blackthorn with pins of the same wood. I used home made black fibre liners and the whole package was held together with epoxy.
The second knife was made from a piece of Landrover leaf spring. It's very good steel but takes a lot of preparation, cutting, annealing, straightening, then grinding clean, and thats before you can cut the profile to shape.
I put a deep Scandi grind on this one and made the handle from a piece of scavenged oak that had some nice grain patterns on it.The pins are 3mm brass rod.
All my heat treating has been done in a home made forge which consists of a large coffee tin lined with fire clay. This is charcoal fuelled with a hole in the side to blow air through and light it up with a gas torch.
Here's another recycled steel knife. This one was an old file, blackthorn handle and pins. The sheath was from a piece of thin leather which my son got off ebay.Needs to be thicker really.
This is one of my favourite knives to date. 3mm 01 carbon steel copper, fibre, and Ceanothus (Californian lilac) handle. I love the colour of that wood, the handle is a very comfortable shape.
Here's the first stick tang I made. Landy leaf spring, ebony and maple with an ebony pin.
Old file blackthorn and brass. Full flat grind with a small secondary bevel.
"Substantial" file and yes you've guessed it, blackthorn handle with brass pins.
I just love the graining on this wood. Full flat grind. Its got a hamon of sorts although its poorly defined because the clay desintergrated a bit during the quench.
This one was rescued from a blade that cracked during the quench which is why the profile is so narrow. burr elm on old file. Copper pins.
This is what has occupied most of my free time over the last year, when I'm not out and about. Hope you like at least one of them. Comments welcome.
Best regards.
David
