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Here is what I have been working on the last couple of days. There is quite a lot to take in here, and a lot of new variables.
I hope you guy's enjoy the eye candy!
I have been in the middle bit of a creative streak and have been taking advantage of it by getting them down in physical form before they get lost maybe to never be thought of the same again.
I will start with what I closet to finishing up, I heat treated these six blades last night and plan on gluing them up tomorrow and finishing them up this weekend. I intend on posting these few for sale early next week if all goes well.
I have a few one offs in this batch, these were intentional modifications I decided to make to keep things interesting. Chances are most of these one offs will never be made more than once.
These are all 3/32 CPM154
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Rangers .182" CPM154, one is a variant I am going to refer to as the soft tail Ranger for now, one of the regular Ranger profiles is going to Fiddleback Outpost.
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Decided to give 3V a try I have some 1/8" and 3/32" hopefully it goes well.
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Giving S35vn a go again, I am pretty close to having this steel down pat. Last batch I heat treated I lost half of them to warpage, I am going to heat treat these is smaller quantities and a variety of thickness to zero in on the problem I was having. Either way I anticipate being able to complete a fair amount of these. The thickness is 3/32" 1/8" and 5/32"
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I Starting moving forward on these as well, I have decided I am going to attempt a fuller on these, I think they will end up pretty cool.
These are low on the priority list, but I would like to have them finished by Blade Show
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More new side Projects!!!
Is it a bush sword? Is it a machete? Could be both! There is also a Bolo style machete here too.
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An overview of everything I have in steel at the moment. I have 5 different steels here and 6 varying thicknesses.
26 individual blades
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And the much anticipated part of this thread by some of you, my first attempt and entry into the Kitchen/Personal dining cutlery area of knives.
I have been working over designs in my head lately. I have had some help from a few off you guys on the Forums some with sharing their user experiences and preferences others providing material support. Those know who they are and I appreciate your support.
The first one is a Butcher style blade I decided to start out with 1/8 for the prototypes. 1095 was all I had laying around in the width and thickness I needed.
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In this picture you can see I refined the butt of the profile.
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The next series of photos of prototypes are not what I would call chef knives they fall more along the lines of what I would call a personal dining knife.
I have some .078" CPM154 on the way I will be trying out on these profiles.
I showed both sides of the stencils because the pencil lines can play with your eyes, the plain side lets you take in the silhouette and overall profile, while the sketch side gives you a rough idea of my intentions for the handle and grind lines
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Thanks for looking everyone, questions and comments welcome.
I hope you guy's enjoy the eye candy!
I have been in the middle bit of a creative streak and have been taking advantage of it by getting them down in physical form before they get lost maybe to never be thought of the same again.
I will start with what I closet to finishing up, I heat treated these six blades last night and plan on gluing them up tomorrow and finishing them up this weekend. I intend on posting these few for sale early next week if all goes well.
I have a few one offs in this batch, these were intentional modifications I decided to make to keep things interesting. Chances are most of these one offs will never be made more than once.
These are all 3/32 CPM154
Hosted onFotkiHosted on Fotki
Rangers .182" CPM154, one is a variant I am going to refer to as the soft tail Ranger for now, one of the regular Ranger profiles is going to Fiddleback Outpost.
Hosted on Fotki
Decided to give 3V a try I have some 1/8" and 3/32" hopefully it goes well.
Hosted on Fotki<brHosted on Fotki
Giving S35vn a go again, I am pretty close to having this steel down pat. Last batch I heat treated I lost half of them to warpage, I am going to heat treat these is smaller quantities and a variety of thickness to zero in on the problem I was having. Either way I anticipate being able to complete a fair amount of these. The thickness is 3/32" 1/8" and 5/32"
Hosted on Fotki
I Starting moving forward on these as well, I have decided I am going to attempt a fuller on these, I think they will end up pretty cool.
These are low on the priority list, but I would like to have them finished by Blade Show
Hosted on Fotki
More new side Projects!!!
Is it a bush sword? Is it a machete? Could be both! There is also a Bolo style machete here too.
Hosted on Fotki<brHosted on Fotki<brHosted on FotkiHosted on Fotki
An overview of everything I have in steel at the moment. I have 5 different steels here and 6 varying thicknesses.
26 individual blades
Hosted on Fotki
And the much anticipated part of this thread by some of you, my first attempt and entry into the Kitchen/Personal dining cutlery area of knives.
I have been working over designs in my head lately. I have had some help from a few off you guys on the Forums some with sharing their user experiences and preferences others providing material support. Those know who they are and I appreciate your support.
The first one is a Butcher style blade I decided to start out with 1/8 for the prototypes. 1095 was all I had laying around in the width and thickness I needed.
Hosted on Fotki
In this picture you can see I refined the butt of the profile.
Hosted on Fotki
The next series of photos of prototypes are not what I would call chef knives they fall more along the lines of what I would call a personal dining knife.
I have some .078" CPM154 on the way I will be trying out on these profiles.
I showed both sides of the stencils because the pencil lines can play with your eyes, the plain side lets you take in the silhouette and overall profile, while the sketch side gives you a rough idea of my intentions for the handle and grind lines
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Thanks for looking everyone, questions and comments welcome.
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