a knife

woodwose · Post by **woodwose** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:57 pm

Recent threads about grinding old files into knife blades motivated me to finish this project I started working on a few months ago. This is the first knife I've made, though I've had some other experience with similar stuff so this came together fairly neatly. I debated between posting it here or in off topics, because I tried to make it look kind of like a period knife, but only using materials I already had. So, its sort of a "if it looks period, that's only because it doesn't look modern" generic SCA knife. It has a nice weight, blade is about 1/4" thick at the forte and thins to about 1/8" at the tip. I'm curious to see how it holds up, since the only sort of "heat treating" I did was to not let it get to hot to turn colors while grinding, and only letting it air cool rather than quenching.

here's a link to its page:
http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/knife1.html

Uadahlrich · Post by **Uadahlrich** » Sun May 08, 2011 11:10 pm

This thread isn't titled correctly. It should be; "A Damned Pretty Knife".

Tomburr · Post by **Tomburr** » Mon May 09, 2011 12:02 am

That knife is fit to be used to carve the rare roast beast come Christmastime.

Really well done, as usual.

Baron Alcyoneus · Post by **Baron Alcyoneus** » Mon May 09, 2011 12:39 am

Pretty!

Donal Mac Ruiseart · Post by **Donal Mac Ruiseart** » Mon May 09, 2011 8:13 am

It's a very nice piece, which any number of people would proudly wear on their belt.

(Under high magnification I can J-U-S-T make out that there was lettering on the pommel disk. Probably wouldn't have noticed except that you'd alerted me that is was a coin.)

Thomas Powers · Post by **Thomas Powers** » Mon May 09, 2011 10:57 am

You did back off the temper from that of a file, right? Too pretty to let it break cause it was still "file hard"!

Thomas

woodwose · Post by **woodwose** » Thu May 12, 2011 5:49 am

I had been thinking that since the blade survived being made in my shop (which included getting bumped around a lot as I worked on other stuff) that the blade had passed a durability test of sorts, so I was not worried about it...

But after playing around with the knife for a few days, thinking about how if the blade broke it would be a pain in the ass to refit the hilt/handle to a new blade; and that if I tap the blade with my finger, the blade sounds like hard tempered glass - now I do plan on taking it apart and seeing what kind of retempering I can do on the blade... but I wonlt have time or tools for it until after Pennsic.

Swete · Post by **Swete** » Fri May 13, 2011 6:34 pm

Now I am gonna have to make one....

Baron Conal · Post by **Baron Conal** » Sat May 14, 2011 9:16 am

pretty.... very pretty

Maeryk · Post by **Maeryk** » Sat May 14, 2011 9:19 am

Yeah, that's probably the prettiest example of freecycling I have ever seen.

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