Knife Thread

[jakethebeast]

110km/h in 50km/h area


BTW, i forged and ROUGH (really, with a angle grinder) grinded 2 blades... I never have made 2 blades in one day

[Mr.Sandman]

110km/h in 50km/h area

This does not surprise me in the least lol.

[Crna Legija]

60 over not bad my brother go busted doing 317 in a 80 zone lost his licence for 2 year impounded his bike for 2 months. all up i think the fines court and paying for impound was like 5 grand.

[jakethebeast]

Sandman, you blade is waiting for its turn in my moms oven Should be finished during next week

[Mr.Sandman]

Sandman, you blade is waiting for its turn in my moms oven Should be finished during next week

[jakethebeast]

Sorry sandman about the delay, had some very. very bad luck when completing your order. First blade cracked during the quench, second one said PLING when i was fitting the bolster. Im just glad that the way i make the handle is pretty big stress to the blade so if the blade has even a small crack somewhere it will say PLING during the making. After all those failures, i decided to make something stronger. Result is 93mm long blade, that has a thickest of 6mm, and widest of 17.5mm. Almost mirror polished spine to make it stronger, bolsters are whopping 7mm thick, and the handle is walnut as you wanted.

SO full specs:

- Blade: Bohler k560 about 58-59hrc, 93mm long, 6mm thick and 17.5mm wide.

- Handle : 7mm bronce bolsters, few pieces of leather and piece of walnut. About 10.7cm long

This knife is the best i have ever made, i managed to profile the handle so that it fits perfectly to a big hand, but also to smaller hand. made the same palm swell again. Here's some pics, they don't do the justice but hey, your going to see it with your own eyes soon

[Mr.Sandman]

Fap fap fap fap fap fap

[jakethebeast]

Good enough for you?

[Mr.Sandman]

I love it! Can't wait to carve wood and skin some game with it this season.

[jakethebeast]

Hehe, i think it will be quite nice for that use I carved some yber hard Teak with it, noo problem

[Mr.Sandman]

You said earlier that the blade is differentially tempered, can I strike a fire steel on the spine still?

[jakethebeast]

I polished the spine to almost mirror shine (yeah its quite round) and the blade is differentially hardened. I'm not sure if its possible because of the roundness, doesn't really have sharp corners. I don't want to scratch it, spend over one hour polishing it, but you can if you see it necessary

The polished back looks neat and it actually upps the blades"breaking" strength. I have done some testing, and blades with polished spine could take much more before they cracked, when compared to blades which had a forged spine that was not sanded. As i understood your going to do some hard work with this puukko, i wanted to make it strong.

[jakethebeast]

AS you asked, here's more pics!



Need to rounden and polish that bolster...

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Another fine example of your craft, brilliant! Sandman, you won't be disappointed

[jakethebeast]

My exams started today, and tomorrow is swedish exam so ill be studying this day... Friday morning ill be making the wooden insert for the shieth and maybe even sew it