"Dog-Bone" Recurve Knife / W.I.P Lotsa Pics Bacustomknivss

[bacustomknives]

Well i did a couple damascus recurve double grind knives here latley, They drew some attention,So i figured id do one in 1095 and try to get a nice hamon on it,I did a flat grind on this one so the hamon would show well if it turns out,if not we will try again!so here we go

Step #1
Aldo's 1095 / 5/32" Flat stock

Stock removed

Into the forge for normalization 4 times for me

Remove the scale

Starting my grind

Time for the clay coat to process a hamon

Time to go in the forge and bring the blade up to temp for quenching,in we go !

Quench time

After the quench,clay stuck well

Off comes the clay??

Into h/t oven for a dbl temper at 400degrees for 1 hr each

More to come!!

 

[giant1]

I love these threads, thank you.

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[Burton Harruff]

Looking good. Keep the pics coming.

 

[bacustomknives]

Enjoy guys if you only knew how hard it was to try to do all this with a camera in one hand and a set of 24" tongs holding a red hot peice of steel in the other! Lmao its a trip! But its fun and helps newbys out alot as they say a picture is better than a thousand words

 

[Contained]

This is great! I am beginning to start making my own knives so ill take as many of these threads as i can!

Thanks,
Noah

 

[jonnymac44]

Very cool! I love WIP's and this one is no exception. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bacustomknives]

Thanks guys more to come!!