Kampman Knives
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Just finished 2 knives and working on a bowie...
The first picture is a detail of the steel blade from my bowie, it's forged out of a 16th century wrought iron steel with a weld forged edge of high carbon steel (WIP).
You can see clearly the impurities in the wrought iron steel.
The second smaller knife is a damascus forged from C100 and wrought iron, with some camel bone scales en red copper pins.
Last knife is forged out of 100 year old steel, it comes out of an old bakery oven (in my own house), also here you see the impurities of the steel but this steel is hard enough to keep an edge, it's quenched on Japanese style (yaki ire) with a clay coating and into the water what changes the edge into martensite.
You cannot see the hamon clearly here cause i didn't etched and polished it enough but gives a nice pattern anyway.
I finished it of with a hamer stroke pattern what i call the rain of arrowheads, used some tiger stripe maple scales with red copper pins.
Thanx for watching, cheers Igor.
The first picture is a detail of the steel blade from my bowie, it's forged out of a 16th century wrought iron steel with a weld forged edge of high carbon steel (WIP).
You can see clearly the impurities in the wrought iron steel.
The second smaller knife is a damascus forged from C100 and wrought iron, with some camel bone scales en red copper pins.
Last knife is forged out of 100 year old steel, it comes out of an old bakery oven (in my own house), also here you see the impurities of the steel but this steel is hard enough to keep an edge, it's quenched on Japanese style (yaki ire) with a clay coating and into the water what changes the edge into martensite.
You cannot see the hamon clearly here cause i didn't etched and polished it enough but gives a nice pattern anyway.
I finished it of with a hamer stroke pattern what i call the rain of arrowheads, used some tiger stripe maple scales with red copper pins.
Thanx for watching, cheers Igor.
