Stromberg Knives
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A small hunter i just finished. It's Sandvik 14C28N at 62 HRC with a Micarta handle. It's for a friend of my brother who hunts and wanted a drop point with a shorter blade.
I know exactly what you mean. Tend to carry around the failed ones. By failed I mean mechanically sound, but some mistake that doesn't make it perfect, but the blade will still do the job.Yeah, this one is staying with me. I'm justifying it because people often ask me if I have a knife to show them, and I've only kept my mistakes, which I'm not crazy about showing off. This one I won't mind
Another project underway. This piece of steel was sitting fullered and partially profiled for more than a year... up until about a week ago. Now it sits with the bevels and clip rough-ground, the tang roughed in, and HT completed. I even soaked it in vinegar for awhile to remove the scale. I hope to hit this in earnest over the weekend, but we'll see.
Erin
Setup a portable forge cart and started drawing out some W2. Just learning how to forge. So far I suck with a rounding hammer and move steel faster with a 2 lb forging hammer.
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I spent the weekend with @J. Doyle and under his tutelage, this is what we came up with. It was a lot of long hard hours with barely a moment spared on idle chit chat, but, worth the sacrifice I think. Still needs some finishing touches, namely deciding whether to keep this as a take down and making a nice looking nut or making a plug and gluing it up. But I couldn't wait to share it because I'm immensely proud of how it's turned out. Thank you John. My meager ability with the camera doesn't do it justice.
What weight is your rounding hammer? Thy can be very aggressive in moving material around but you have to pay attention where it's going. I use it at a slight angle and swing the hammer in the direction I want the steel to go, kind like I'm trying to pull the steel twords me.
Been following the full build on Facebook, looking like it will be a stunning knife when finished.I've been working on an integral khyber knife, in twelve bar composite damascus with zanjir elements.
My thumbs are super bruised and worn out from filing and stoning on the T-spine and bolster sculpting... hope to get it into the final etch and parkerize today.