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I have worked steel all my life and just never got around to making a knife ,well this week I made 2 ,




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just need to oil the wood finish polishing and finish sharpening them.
Was a blast might have to make a few more
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Those look great especially the one on the bottom. It has the look of a great skinning blade. Excellent looking knives
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WOW, nice looking.
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Looks good. I've got a few old farrier rasps I need to turn into some knives one of these days.

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NIce knives, but I like the cedar handles the best... Where did you get the cedar?
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I have been working on a few of those myself over the last few weeks! What did you use for the handles, is it cedar or mesquite?
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Handles are ceder , I cut some trees a few years back and they have been stored in a building curing , I cut the slabs out of that wood.
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Nice..Ron I can see you using antler for handles to someday......
My dad made a few knives yrs. ago made a blade from an old file as I remember on one...
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Awoodsman
Every one like something different ,I like the wooden scales or the laminated scales from layer and epoxy but never really liked the antler handles,I do think there pretty.
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Well, it is still a building forum even if it is a "not a boat".

So are you going to give us anything more than the damn tree the handles come from? :)

I'd sure like a rundown on the steel working. Old file? tempering, untempering, retempering?

Come on man give up the skinny. :)

Oh, I do like the knives :clap:
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Your a trip :lol:
The 440 c is some knife building stock that a friend gave me ,it was already annealed (softened) I ground the blade out to shape drilled the holes for the handle slabs.
Then I did a little rigging ,I have an old hibachi that is cast iron ,built my charcoal fire in that set a hair dryer blowing into the coals, that brought the temp up to a stage where it is anti magnetic , then did just an edge quench for 15 seconds and the a full quench for 45 sec in cooking oil. After it cooled all the way I put it in the oven for 1 hour at 400 degrees to finish tempering it and the let it cool on its own .
I then finished the blade polished it and put on and shaped the handles .
Whewwww ok you happy now.
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Thanx Ron, I knew there was a little more to it than just pretty handles.
Ron has been welding since before they invented electricity so I wanted to drag out some of that sperience for us young guns. :oops:

I could take what I know about steel and poke it in your eye, and you would never know something was in there. :lol:
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Got the knives finished up ,handles done and they both are sharp enough to shave.

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