Knife making continues.

[BuildsByBaz]

I just don't know where you find the time.......You must be a time traveler or have a pocket hole dimension where time stops......teach me.....

Look at any time you are spending unproductively, even if it's only 20 minutes at a time. Watching TV? Waste of time. Sleeping in too long or going to bed too early? Waste of time. Playing a video game? Waste of time. etc etc etc.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

Your poor wife..............

 

[BuildsByBaz]

A few I've been working on, including a Damascus kitchen knife I just finished tonight.

 

[xXDashIVXx]

Oh my gosh that is soooo pretty! I love how thick and smooth it is, rather than the tiny and varying line sizes and swirls! And the handle is also a work of art and a great compliment to the blade! Is the tang burnt into the handle or is there a cap not in the pictures?

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Thznks mate. The handle is milled, drilled, broached and filed inside to fit the tang, which is then glued in with epoxy.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

A few lunch breaks and evenings well spent.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

Baz, is there anything you don't do?

 

[TurboCharizard]

Baz, is there anything you don't do?

I'm going to put my money on "sleep". Is this Family Feud rules? What does the survey say?

 

[Dirtdives2424]

Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O'Hurley or the newest host Steve Harvey version?

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Baz, is there anything you don't do?

I don't knit or sew....

 

[Dirtdives2424]

I don't knit or sew....

I head a faint word echoing in the wind......."Yet........".

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Offcuts from the ends of Damascus, (*modern) billets.

I love these random chunks of metal. You don't know who made them or how they were made, how many layers or anything. Inspected through the bucket of stubs, looking for any that might be OK, then bash 'em out and see what you get. Some de-lamination here and there, but these are rejected off-cuts for a reason. Forged, ground and polished, then dropped in thick-as-mud, cheapo coffee overnight to see what happens in the morning.



Turned out OK.

*Modern Damascus - because so many keyboard warriors get precious about calling it Damascus.... Damascus steel - Wikipedia

The two steels are 1075 and 15n20. Essentially the same, but the 15n20 has a little bit of nickel in it. They are stacked in alternate layers, then hammered together while super heated, then manipulated into patterns, forged into a knife, ground, highly polished, then etched in ferric chloride, coffee or both. The steel with less nickel in it absorbs the stain of the coffee. Coffee is also acidic, so it etches the metal.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Here's another small stub, squashed out and turned into a cute little paring knife. A little cheeky file-work on the spine for fun.

Baz.

 

[OttyrCosplay]

It's so stripey and cute! Like a lil zebra knife.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Another cute little blade made out of an end stub of Damascus. The stub was no bigger than a mintie, looking like it had been left on a car dashboard all summer...

Forged into a bar, then stretched and flattened, beaten to shape, ground and polished. Coffee etched last night for 5 hours.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Terrifying. I've made a few billets from scratch before, under tuition from experienced operators, but today was my first time pattern welding, (modern Damascus) alone.

I have a twist billet of 16 layers that I made over a year ago now. Today I chopped it into into four lengths, re-stacked, (64 layers now) and squashed out into a dimension precise billet to stock-remove one big knife and it's guard, without further disrupting the pattern by forging the shape. I'm hoping to expose certain patterns as I grind the bevel geometries in.

Taking my time with this one. For me personally, it's a big investment in my personal development as a knife maker.

More to follow as I can.

The video shows me doing the first power hammer set after the initial press under a hydraulic press, subsequent heats and hammers were used to draw out the bar and size it width and thickness.

Original 16 layer twist billet.

 

[Sean Anwalt]

Sandbagger I've been wondering where you went!

Back at it again with epic knife skills, I see. This one is going to look awesome!

 

[TurboCharizard]

Sandbagger I've been wondering where you went!

Back at it again with epic knife skills, I see. This one is going to look awesome!

I had just assumed that he had started another even larger project and had to remodel part of his neighbours house.

 

[xXDashIVXx]

Terrifying. I've made a few billets from scratch before, under tuition from experienced operators, but today was my first time pattern welding, (modern Damascus) alone.

I have a twist billet of 16 layers that I made over a year ago now. Today I chopped it into into four lengths, re-stacked, (64 layers now) and squashed out into a dimension precise billet to stock-remove one big knife and it's guard, without further disrupting the pattern by forging the shape. I'm hoping to expose certain patterns as I grind the bevel geometries in.

Taking my time with this one. For me personally, it's a big investment in my personal development as a knife maker.

More to follow as I can.

The video shows me doing the first power hammer set after the initial press under a hydraulic press, subsequent heats and hammers were used to draw out the bar and size it width and thickness.

Original 16 layer twist billet.
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Wow. You are so lucky to have the big tools! This is going to look soooo pretty! any specific designs or will it be the layered Damascus alone?

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Thanks guys. The Viper is still on hold while I renovate my house and build the new hangar/workshop.

This place is where I work, but I get to use it after hours for personal development.

I have a specific knife design to make, which is why I had to restack the billet and make it a certain size.

Baz.