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Main Discussion Area => At the Forge => Topic started by: Mesophilic on September 23, 2019, 03:25:32 pm

Title: Camp knife
Post by: Mesophilic on September 23, 2019, 03:25:32 pm: Here's a camp knife I just finished. Will post an update pic after I stare at her for a while and come up with a sheath design that suits her.

1095 high carbon at 59 HRC. 6 7/8" blade, 3/16" thick. Handle is paduak and maple, both stabilized.

(https://i.imgur.com/ow5CZMX.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/GMQXBuF.jpg)
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Hawkdancer on September 23, 2019, 03:54:05 pm: Nice! That will peel a lot of potatoes! And cut stew meat!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 23, 2019, 05:12:59 pm: Quote from: Hawkdancer on September 23, 2019, 03:54:05 pm
Nice! That will peel a lot of potatoes! And cut stew meat!
Hawkdancer

Chop firewood, baton billets, build a cabin!
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: KHalverson on September 23, 2019, 05:59:16 pm: that,ll do the job.
very nice.
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Trapper Rob on September 24, 2019, 02:23:32 pm: Looks good
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Sidmand on September 24, 2019, 03:02:17 pm: great job on that one, I like it a lot!
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: TRiggs on September 24, 2019, 06:51:09 pm: I'm sorry I just gotta ask, did you forge this or do a stock removal ?
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Mesophilic on September 24, 2019, 06:54:41 pm: Quote from: TRiggs on September 24, 2019, 06:51:09 pm
I'm sorry I just gotta ask, did you forge this or do a stock removal ?

Stock removal. I've got a rotator cuff problem and just can't swing a hammer for any length of time.
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Mr. Woolery on September 25, 2019, 10:02:06 am: Stock removal is not a lesser way to make a knife. I love your work and I’m glad you share on here.

Patrick
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Russ on September 25, 2019, 10:17:25 am: Same here! I love seeing your knives and am currently doing stock removal! I look forward to seeing more of your knives!
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Mesophilic on September 25, 2019, 10:39:07 am: Thanks guys.

I do look forward to the day I can swing a hammer again. Something magical about pulling hot steel out of a fire and pounding it in to something useful.
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Mr. Woolery on September 25, 2019, 10:43:07 am: I did stock removal until 5 years ago. ABS master smiths often utilize stock removal when it is the better way to make a blade. Wayne Goddard has written about this in multiple places.

For my own blades I currently am having more fun forging. But I don’t believe it makes a blade superior to grinding from a bar.

Dieselcheese, please keep on sharing your work. (And everyone else, too, of course).

Patrick
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Stoker on September 26, 2019, 05:18:35 pm: Nice knife. Nobody will complain to the camp cook ifin he swinging that ;)
Thanks Leroy
Title: Re: Camp knife
Post by: Bryce on September 27, 2019, 03:48:26 pm: Quote from: TRiggs on September 24, 2019, 06:51:09 pm
I'm sorry I just gotta ask, did you forge this or do a stock removal ?

This section of the forum ‘At The Forge’ isn’t exclusive to just smelting and forging raw materials into tools and such. It’s a place where all things that happen in a smiths shop can be shared, critiqued, and information shared.
I often hammer all my Damascus into bars for later use. I wouldnt condemn someone else’s work bc they decided to pound out round stock or just do ‘stock removal’
Steel is steel. Just bc it wasn’t smelted and hammered on site doesn’t reduce the value of the final product.

Quote from: dieselcheese on September 25, 2019, 10:39:07 am
Thanks guys.

I do look forward to the day I can swing a hammer again. Something magical about pulling hot steel out of a fire and pounding it in to something useful.

Either way man, you took a useless chunk of steel and turned it into something with a 1000 uses. Nice work bud.