Thinking about knifemaking

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Joey Shabadoo

Joey Shabadoo

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Top work. Love the fact you built your own forge aswell. I'd love to get a present like that, made by someone with love.
I think it shows a remarkable level of trust.
 
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Joey Shabadoo

Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Next project, a wee carving knife made out of an old file and some tulip wood

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Joey Shabadoo

Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Another file knife, bit bigger this time. Bought a belt grinder and adapted it a bit to get the plunge lines then made a rudimentary jig to get the bevels right.

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Oh and I got a gas forge.
 

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Have you had a play with any 1080 blade steel yet in your forge? Planning on an anvil?
 
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Joey Shabadoo

Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Incidentally, that was made out of W4241 steel and it was an absolute sod to try and drill. Even my carbide drills wouldn't touch it and giving it a touch of heat did nothing.
 

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Bimbleur
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North Yorkshire
Looks like hard stuff. The knife boys I know start on 1080. Can be stacked up with Damascus etc and is quite forgiving as I understand.
I used to do A fair bit of forge welding and Iron work when I worked for a blacksmith, but didn’t make many knives. I now get a good few specialist tools from Sweden for green woodwork and spoon carving. Svante Djarv makes around 4000 tools a year. I reckon he uses high grade 1095 but he does several heat treats.
See if you can get a bit of Elmax. It’s a stainless but has carbon steel properties. Supposed to be The Nuts.
All steel is a trade off I guess. I don’t want hard steel for a spoon knife. I want something I can hone to a very sharp edge on a single bevel. But if I’m laying a hedge I want a Bill hook which doesn’t need sharpening much (which I’ve yet to find)
Have a look at Hewn and Hone. I think he’ll be selling a pretty cool sharpening set up soon.
 
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