Beckerhead Knife Making and Modification Thread

Thanks, Vik!
Didn't have quiiiite enough steel in that piece to make the blade shape I really wanted, so... will just have to smash some more. :)
 
spent some time at the forge today, starting a new sword.
after my arm was noodled, I came in and reshaped a hammer from a 2.5 pound engineers hammer to a 2.2# double diagonal peen.
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hopefully tomorrow I can try it out.
 
I can get 4 fingers on the handle-proper in a fist-grip, tho it's definitely compact. It would be small for the ham-fisted. By choking my index finger up around the front of the scales ahead of the bump, I get a lot of fine control for non-fist grips. My "normal" series-1 EDC-sized knifes with ~3" blades would have the guard/bump up where the front of the scales are, and the same OAL knife with the same amount of cutting edge would feel like it had a lot more handle. But I was making a mini-kephart, so....


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Ha!
That looks cool.
But yeah, this little guy is not in your scale. And in general, even I find the kephart handles a tad short, hence my added 'features'.
The AuK-6, on the other hand... well, we'll see. I sent it to some large hands for testing and feedback.
 
Classically styled rigging knife in GLHansen's "Ocean Depths" Gcarta for a shipmate.
Blade is hand-forged from one quarter of a scrapped E/V Nautilus (@nautiluslive) rudder bearing.
Mark on the spine is the registration number of the vessel instead of the steel type (unknown, but acts like 52100).
Cuts like a sea demon!

(and you thought there wouldn't be fresh show & tell this week! :p)

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My next puukko is coming along. The padauk and ebony handle block is ready to bore for the tang. The oversize front bolster was tightly fitted, a peened texture applied and polished. Blade was repolished to final finish with 800x w/d paper and green compound. Butt cap and front bolster are .188" brass.

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Lookin' good, Hawk!
I do like the peened bolster fitting technique AND look.

Were you guys GM's in one of the floating services? I know two GM/1s in the CG. Don't know how the ratings all match up across services.


Tonight I drew the back of this 0.200" thick Moose Mountain 5 in 1084. 61Rc along the edge, transitioning to 59 at the tip. 57Rc along the spine back to the handle holes (and then the rest of the handle is unhardened). Perfect!

1084 takes a very fine, stable edge. And if you're curious how 1084 stacks up toughness-wise at various hardnesses, check out one of Larrin's charts: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/call-for-charpy-toughness-samples.1548360/page-50#post-19068961

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