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Finally finished this one. If you look at this and think, “Nate, that looks like it was a pain in the ass to grind”, you would be correct. Really cool concept that worked out perfect. I wanted to make a blade that was stiff, lightweight, and had well defined plunges and stuff so it would have a...

Spent the entire day sanding this thing. Got it up to 600 finally. Shoulder is killin me. You all know…..

Hello, good to have you

I thought it looked like some decarb on there too. It can be pretty thick. Last one I did I took about .005 off each side to get to “good” steel.

After I knock the handle off the blade, I peel off the tape and clean the blade. I will shape the handle down, drill my pin hole, and completely finish the blade and handle separately. The handle block/bolster will look sorta like this. It fits absolutely perfect to the blade. Once everything is...

Next I wrap good ol duct tape around the handle block to create a “well” pretty much like the red paper here. The blade then is inserted into the hole in the block and the well extends a fair bit onto the blade, about 1.5 inches. Next I mix up some epoxy and black pigment and pour it into the...

Here you see my handle block and bolster. I started by drilling two .25 holes and wobbling the bit to create a slot in the tang, although you could just drill one larger hole into the block. I then ground off the front of the block at an angle, and finished it to 120 grit. I found that it needs...

Figure I’ll share how I do some of my handles, after the thread about wa handles. I did not come up with this idea, this came from an ancient Finnish knife I had. They would burn the tang into a piece of wood, then carve designs into the wood handle, wrap the handle in damp leather, and pour it...

The K980 looks pretty close to 80CRV2. I think you could expect similar results with similar HT. Bohler says on their website to use an austenizing temp of 800c/1472f and oil quench. That all checks out. The S200, they have that info on their site as well, and the recommend about 2250f and...

I’ll post it up tomorrow morning. I’ll have to make a couple drawings in the morning, I don’t have pictures, but it’s really quick and easy.

Yeah that’s a wa handle thing. Might want to go a little bigger than .25. That’s a pretty small tang, I believe most people are doing 3/8”. It is a pretty neat construction process. I have a different method for chefs knives I really like. It’s very similar but involves resin casting instead of...

I didnt think of that but yeah ironwood smells pretty “farty”. Bocote kinda reminds me of cinnamon.

Do you know it’s origin?

Kind of reminds me of Bocote.

Maybe two at the most but I usually do one at a time.

I don’t think it would take a whole lot to be better than what I make lol

I know it is done frequently but are those knives looked at as “less desirable” because of it?

I really really do not like making sheaths. I find leatherwork boring and tedious, and I’m not “great” at it by any means. I was wondering what people think of knives where the knife is sole authorship, but the sheath was made by someone else? Is that ok, or do the sheaths “have to” be made by...

I was thinking the same thing, thin Micarta.