File to wakizashi

[Colin KC]

This was the biggest file I've ever seen, I rolled it a bit & then finished by stock removal, the tang was cut off & it's still over 25" long!


Off to Mr Bush's for some accurate cycling & HT soon.

 

[murphda2]

Nice!

 

[Pieter]

Can't wait to see it completed.

 

[Colin KC]

Sorry about th' awful pics, I'm well know for them on britishblades:34:

it's achully cleanly ground, with a nice crisp bevel & is 1/8th smaller just before belly in both width & thickness from where the habaki goes & slightly curved up at the tip in preparation for a nice clayed HT:biggrin:

 

[RAGUEL3]

Great work so far, hope she turns out cleanly for you. Borrow a better camera!,lol.

 

[Colin KC]

Here's some more (bloody awful) pics:

Nicely curved

A glimmer of hope for a nice hamon

 

[bubba-san]

Colin , she is starting to look real nice , hamon looks like midare gunome ? nice work

 

[Colin KC]

's achully got a really fine microstructure going on in there (tho' you'll have to wait for proper pics, by someone else to see 'em)


More poor pics to follow

 

[bubba-san]

How did you get all the file teeth out ?? did you fold the steel a few times ? was that a huge farriers rasp ??

 

[Colin KC]

I ground the teeth off & it was a @@@@@@@ file not a rasp, no folding, just rolling & grinding

 

[Stew]

Hello Colin.

 

[Colin KC]

Hi Stew

 

[John N]

hello colin looks like its got the making of a real beauty!

was it water : water , or water : oil ?

What normalisation / quench temps did you run at ?