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Very well done.

Lovely little knife. I really like the way the harpoon swedge accents the san mai at the spine too.

Looks like a good design. I'm also looking forward to seeing the result. The added piece to clamp the scales to is good thinking.

Now THAT'S a cool heirloom (well used, after she outgrows it as a main hammer).

Classic! Really nice rendition of the style.

Thanks Mark. I'm keeping this around to improve what I'm doing remind me to do it.

Congratulations on a great joint project. The knives are beautiful and the wood on your's is certainly stunning (the texturing on Jon's make's it hard to see just how the wood looks).

I've got four blades (two chef, two smaller) of this 52100 profiled and drilled but not beveled. Is there any reason that I can't wrap them together in one piece of foil for the temp cycling? If so, should I extend the soak times a little, say to 15 minutes?

I use the larger one constantly in the shop and love it.

J.D. Smith gave a demo of this technique at Swords Through the Ages last month. He welded up three billets, one with just a spray of WD40 and two with nothing. Just tapped them on the press to set the weld then went straight to the power hammer on edge to make Ws. All were rock solid with...

It's one of my favorite steels. You need an HT oven or other good temp control because it needs to soak at around 1750F for roughly 30 minutes. This means it needs HT foil or other oxygen protection. I usually plate quench it but air is sufficient. Oil will work but you need to get the...

For personal opinion: I dislike big blobs of metal in the middle of my nice handles. At this point I use either 3/16 copper corby bolts or 1/4 copper Loveless with brass screws. The Loveless do have a visible join between the screw and the copper, but I much prefer a dot of brass in the...

They all require countersinking and thus work best with a special drill bit.

Those are my favorites of the fossil damascus I've seen. I think the nickle and twisting helped but also think the fact the all of your fossil pieces were triangular helped.

Beautiful composition.

Great design, that blade looks great.

Very nice! Goes with it's name :)

Sweet Chuck! The traditional 1095 and stag one is also my favorite but I like them all.

That is one sweet knife Randy.

Way cool! Great start for her.