Jarrett Fleming
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Decided to do a little WIP for the design contest knife. I'm not going to go into to much detail, but this should at least give everyone a basic understanding of how the knives are made.
Here is the winning design. Have you thought about any names for it yet Christian?
First step is to profile the blade
Filing in the sharpening notch
Scribing the edge
This is about how thin I want to go before heat treat
Starting up the grinder
Bevels have been rough ground and then cleaned up to 120 before heat treat (hard to tell)
Next I mark where I want to drill my holes
Holes have been marked and punched
Holes are drilled and then chamfered
Marked where I wanted the jimping
I decided to go with a finer jimping pattern than the drawing. It still serves it's purpose and I can be much more precise with a checkering file
Decided to make 2! Blades are dipped in turco before heat treat
Into the evenheat they go
Oven coming up to temp
After the blades have soaked in the oven at temp it is time to quench between the aluminum plates.
The blades go from 1900+ degrees to being able to handle them in a matter of seconds
Here they are after hardening
After quenching the blades go into my secondary oven for 2 tempering cycles
That's all for now.
Here is the winning design. Have you thought about any names for it yet Christian?
First step is to profile the blade
Filing in the sharpening notch
Scribing the edge
This is about how thin I want to go before heat treat
Starting up the grinder
Bevels have been rough ground and then cleaned up to 120 before heat treat (hard to tell)
Next I mark where I want to drill my holes
Holes have been marked and punched
Holes are drilled and then chamfered
Marked where I wanted the jimping
I decided to go with a finer jimping pattern than the drawing. It still serves it's purpose and I can be much more precise with a checkering file
Decided to make 2! Blades are dipped in turco before heat treat
Into the evenheat they go
Oven coming up to temp
After the blades have soaked in the oven at temp it is time to quench between the aluminum plates.
The blades go from 1900+ degrees to being able to handle them in a matter of seconds
Here they are after hardening
After quenching the blades go into my secondary oven for 2 tempering cycles
That's all for now.
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