Recent content by JD Brown

Thank you !! It turned out okay… I am impressed with the blade hardness and toughness after finally being able to soak the O1 for the recommended time.

Hey guys , been absent for a little while, life is busy. Got some new tools for the shop , including an Evenheat kiln for heat treat! This knife is from the first batch of O1 that I treated in the new furnace. It came out pretty well… can’t make up my mind if I want to sale or put it in the...

Triple temper after hardening , now I will clean her up and blue back her a few times. I would rather the blade bend than break on these larger blades ! Beautiful straw like temper color on her though !

Hey guys ! Have someone wanting a sheath knife , so here we go . Forged to shape and forged bevel 5160 steel , blade was ground vertically using an 8” contact wheel. This is a work in progress , now on to the hand work with paper and stones !

Finished this one up over the weekend , same specs as the above knife , O1 triple tempered. Jigged amber bone , nickel silver hardware …. There are a couple small things that I’m not happy with on how this one turned out so I can’t bring myself to sale it ! Because of that this one is going in...

With a decent heat treat O1 makes a great knife in my humble opinion . Are there better steels out there ? Sure why not , but does O1 do everything I need it to do absolutely . I don’t care to sharpen my knife after using it “hard”, and I don’t mind a little patina on a blade . I have found in...

I personally like it , gives it some patina / character . That being said I don’t know how many times I have redone a blade over something small that just didn’t sit right with me , something that most people wouldn’t even notice .

Welcome ! Fantastic blades !

That will make a fine guard !! Love the pattern , shame it’s no count for a blade !

Wife’s new chopper is finally done ! After some trouble with a handle material I had never worked before that ended up acting just like glass I decided to put the classic ebony on her ! The wife didn’t want pins , so I am trying out a new epoxy “Gflex” , we will see how it does .

The blade profile and swedge are on point sir !

Thank you sir ! Just like to piddle …

Hey Ken, I can’t take credit for the design , it’s one I picked up from a template and tweaked it just a little .

Hey guys , been absent from the forum , the wife’s kitchen knife is still in the works but knives for family doesn’t buy new tools lol!! So this little slippie is heading to Tennessee . O1 tool steel, nickel silver bolsters/liners /pins and vintage gold/brown bovine bone.

Progress !! Slowly but surely …. I waited a little later in life to have my son and no one told me how busy they keep you when they hit the toddler years but here is the wife’s new kitchen knife ground and heat normalized , I have to make a run to the store and pick up more oil before I can...