"Beater and Biter..."

[stuart m]

Following on from this thread: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24710&page=5

Red and I came to an agreement and the project has moved from design stages to something a litle more physical...

The designs transferred onto steel ready to be cut and shaped...

The "Beater" is A2, the "Biter" CPM S30V.

Monday will see them, knife shaped

 

[Nat]

Looking good so far. Roll on Monday then

What grade steel is that?

 

[stuart m]

Looking good so far. Roll on Monday then

What grade steel is that?

Hi Nat,

The "Beater" os A2... The "Biter" CPM S30V.

A beating steel and a biting steel....

 

[Shinken]

exellent!!!!!!

 

[Nat]

Hi Nat,

The "Beater" os A2... The "Biter" CPM S30V.

A beating steel and a biting steel....

Thanks Stuart
Excuse my ignorance, still figuring out what the diffrent steels are, but what does it mean?

Cheers

 

[bosknurft]

Both steels glow in the dark when Orcs are near?

 

[Nat]

Both steels glow in the dark when Orcs are near?

What about glowing when FC Wardens and rangers are close.....

 

[Gailainne]

What about glowing when FC Wardens and rangers are close.....

Did'nt he just say that ? when Orcs are near

I'll get me coat. :sadwavey:

Stuart, blades look great, looks like you and Red should collaborate more often.

Stephen

 

[British Red]

Thanks Stuart
Excuse my ignorance, still figuring out what the diffrent steels are, but what does it mean?

Cheers

Well here is the picture to save people loading it - it does offer the relative sizes of beater and biter well.

Nat - I am no metallurgist but Beater is designed to be pounded and batoned - so Stu has selected a tough "tool steel" to withstand that tough use.

Biter is in S30V partly because Shinken was jind enough to donate apiece to the project (thanks Shinken). I'm told that S30V is a specialist knife steel offering a good combination of edge retention, toughness and stain resistance.

Hope thats some insight anyway

The intention of this project is to have different grinds, profiles and steels for the two knives that lend themselves in turn to a big tough chopping knife and a fine delicate slicing knife

Red

 

[Nat]

Ah ha, all clear now, cheers red

 

[stuart m]

.... I am no metallurgist but Beater is designed to be pounded and batoned - so Stu has selected a tough "tool steel" to withstand that tough use.

Biter is in S30V partly because Shinken was jind enough to donate apiece to the project (thanks Shinken). I'm told that S30V is a specialist knife steel offering a good combination of edge retention, toughness and stain resistance.

Hope thats some insight anyway

The intention of this project is to have different grinds, profiles and steels for the two knives that lend themselves in turn to a big tough chopping knife and a fine delicate slicing knife.

Couldn't have put that better myself

Not sure what happened with that photo Red, I put the photo in post #1 originally, not the link, I presumed that a mod had altered it?

 

[British Red]

I cut and pasted your words stu

Dunno with the picture - its there now anywhoo

Red

 

[stuart m]

I cut and pasted your words stu

Dunno with the picture - its there now anywhoo

Red

I never realised

 

[stuart m]

Been a little quiet this thread, there has been activity "behind the scenes" though...

I have a couple of blanks cut, blanks which have been slightly altered from the original drawings, one of them has anyway...

Here they are, what are your thoughts

Apologies for the photos, and yes, that is the top of our spare (beer) fridge

 

[madrussian]

I like. Can't wait to see how these two turn out. After the last one you made for BR I'm sure these two will be sweeeeeeeeet whey they are finished. I can feel the knife envy starting already.

 

[Shinken]

I can feel the knife envy starting already

me tooooo

 

[Fin]

Looking good - there's enough of a drop to the contour at the rear of the handle of the larger knife to provide leverage to chopping tasks and the smaller knife shape looks the business for fine work.

Once the grinds are sorted the trick then will be to get the cosmetics such that they are seen to be a matched pair.

Looking forward to the next instalment!

 

[British Red]

The next installment will be me handling the blanks!

Stu has been kind enough to offer to send them down to me to try in my hand before we proceed. I think thats a cracking idea since these are new designs and I will learn more by handling the steel than I ever could by looking at pictures and doing drawings. Biter looks exactly right to me but I really need to hold beater since the size is much less familiar to me and I want to be sure it feels right for the tasks I have in mind.

Red

 

[fishfish]

whats the steel?

 

[Shinken]

the beater is A2 and the biter is cpm s30v

so it says up a bit in this post