SpudFiles

thats a missunderstood, there is no sparks flying in the hammering prosess, only when making damascus and thats caused bu the hot boiling borax flying.

i think that blade came out pretty nice, friday im going to finishing hammer it and sand it, mayby even heat treat it

It's HOT!!!

no, this is hot

jakethebeast wrote:thats a missunderstood, there is no sparks flying in the hammering prosess

Oh. Now that you've reframed it, seems a little less dramatic in my head now. But the result is none the less impressive, great job

edit: I take that back, HOT!

I was picturing in my head this Conan the Barbarian sword forging routine...
less hot... but still hot

my phones camera makes it look even hotter, in real life the blade was bright yellow (1200-1250c) the pic makes it look like white (over 1300c)


i didnt even burn myself alot, just a little smell of burning flesh few times

LeMaudit wrote:I was picturing in my head this Conan the Barbarian sword forging routine...

pretty much the same picture here

On an unrelated note, baffles yay!

those looks nice! it was a good idea, wasnt it?

Indeed starting on yours as we speak

cause you are kindly making these to me, i will make a nice case for the blade from 3 different finnish woods or atleast 2

Sweet cheers! viva los espudfiles!

iw not shared this blade with you guys, atleast i dont remember

as you can see, its tiny

Nice pics

I found this blade;

It's 20 euros. 59-60 hrc. (carbon steel)

here's the link
I don't like the grind however. It's a convex grind, and it seems to have a double bevel.

I would love to purchase one of your blades, but it needs some thinking. It's quite a lot of money for me

also made a handle:


I used an olive from a compression fitting as a sleeve, to prevent splitting. At the front you can see the piece of metal I want to use as a spacer. It's a piece of iron sandwiched between to copper plates. Just an experiment, turned out pretty well.
I have nothing to do ATM, so i'll probably make a few more.

well, its your choice the things iv heard from bruslettos blades, well, they are mass produktion blades, someone thinks they are good, someone thinks they are not. and at only 3mm thick its not a great chopper but you do as you want, no hard feelings


EDIT: how did you sandwitch it?


still machining JSR?

I'll probably end up buying one of yours, seems more quality to me.
It's also very nice to have a custom blade.

I also think the brusletto blad is ugly, machine produced look.

Edit:

I had a small piece of copper tube. I cut it open, and hammered it flat.
Cut it in two, and cleaned them. Then put a piece of machine steel
(Fe-360) in between. I added flux, and just soldered together.

The end product doesn't look perfect, as the copper plates were a bit bumpy, and I didn't have the right flux. The flux I used turns black and messy when it becomes too hot, thus making the end product uglier.