Knife Thread

[Labtecpower]

It's Finnish. You could have made a guess by the blade design

[jakethebeast]

yeah, scandi desing is pretty unique

i was thinking of making my own version of the speznaz machete, or a skramaseax, but well see what i come up with

[Labtecpower]

The spetsnaz is very useful I think, but ugly as hell.

A skramaseax looks very good.

I was in a (gaulish, gallic?) village in France, and I spotted a nice blade found in one of the graves. I took a picture of it:





I believe it's called a falcata...

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

yeah, the stamp is missing

Don't worry, in the future it will fetch more value as one of those "unsigned masterpieces"

[jakethebeast]

heh, mayby thats true

Im going to heat treat your dagger blade ASAP, its way too soft in the moment

[Mr.Sandman]

Very impresssive, have you ever considered making a blade out of high carbon steel? Or some sort of khukri?

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Im going to heat treat your dagger blade ASAP, its way too soft in the moment

Take your time, I probably won't get started on your valve before next weekend.

[jakethebeast]

i have to take my time, if i rush it will not become good i have lots of exams in this week and next week...

[inonickname]

Very impresssive, have you ever considered making a blade out of high carbon steel? Or some sort of khukri?

Speaking of a khukri...there's a video on youtube about making khukris in Nepal.. it's really impressive.

[jakethebeast]

sandman: high carbon steel? my knifes are normally made from 1.3% carbonsteel, that is high carbon steel

EDIT: jsr, if you want tosee flying sparks, mayby i can do that for you, it needs just little bit of "magic powder"

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

jsr, if you want tosee flying sparks, mayby i can do that for you, it needs just little bit of "magic powder"

Is it "magic powder" you would have to inhale to give you the "oomph" to do it, or something you would sprinkle on the blade

[jakethebeast]

nah its just borax, used for forge welding. when you sprinkle it to the blade and heat more, and when you start hammering it the hot borax will fly and look like sparkles

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

hot borax will fly and look like sparkles

You've managed to make one of the manliest activities I can think of sound gay

[jakethebeast]

if the steel sparkless, it means its burning carbon. Thats bad

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

sparks:



sparkles:



See what I mean?