Spirograph Damascus Nakiri WIP

[HHH Knives]

Im gona do a mini WIP on this one. Its my take on a Nakiri.

Randy Jr forged me this kick butt billet of Spirograph damascus a few months back. and I have been trying to figure out what pattern blade to make that would really show off the pattern of the damascus, A few guys on the board made some suggestions and after doing some research, I settled on a Nakiri.

This will have a western/Wa handle Ala Delbert Ealy (I asked him if I could try his method and he graciously said I could) Hope I do it justice.

The specs so far.

OAL 358mm or 14 1/8 inches.
BLADE 210mm or 8 3/8 inches
Thickness 2.5mm ish Thinking I may surface grind this down to about 2mm Open to suggestions.
Heel height 56mm or 2 3/16 inches. tapering slightly to50mm one inch behind the front of the blade.
Handle will be 130mm ish long with the front at 24mm and the back tapering to 28mm

This is my first attempt at this pattern blade and I gota say, It went against every fiber in my being to not have a tip or a point on this.. lol Yet after looking at hundreds of pictures and reading everything I can find about the knife. I had to give it a try!

So far I have the Blade Heat treated and rough profiled. I may still make some minor changes to the profile to make the knife better, and am open to suggestions. Currently it feels good on the board, with a very gentle roll from the front to the heel.

Here are a few pics from raw billet to ground and Heat treated blade.

 

[HHH Knives]

After much consideration, I chose a handle and handle profile changes. Heres some pics of the finished knife!

Here are the finished specs on this one!

Let me first say, This is the thinnest and sharpest knife I have ever ground!!

Yep. Im really proud of this one, from the steel to the grind to the handles. Its just as perfect of a example of our work as any knife I have made!!! I hope this makes sense.. without sounding cocky or anything.. lol

I measured this one by first measuring the main things like OAL and Blade length, Handle and spine stuff.. Then I measured the blade at 3 points in the middle of the flats. Then again in the same 3 spots a smidge above the final bevels. First at heel, second near the midway point between the heel and tip, and finally just behind the tip.


OAL 14 1/6" : 385mm'
Blade 8 1/4" : 210mm' 55mm high at the heel, tapering to 46mm 1 inch behind the tip.
Handle 5" : 127mm at longest. 20mm thick : 24mm tapering to 27mm high.

Spine above the heel, then halfway between heel and edge, and then just above the edge. measured at heel midway then at tip.

2.2mm, 1.9mm, .81mm At spine
1.6mm, 1.1mm, .70mm Mid way
.33mm, .29mm, .24mm Above the cutting edge. Just for fun I took the edge measurement at the tip and converted it to inches.. Its ridiculous. lol .009" Thats CRAZY thin!! And thats above the sharpening bevel.

The handles are Stabilized Buckeye burl with copper pins and vulcanized spacers. Inspired by some of the handles that I seen in the Fish thread..

 

[Eaglewood]

good stuff my brother!!!!

 

[timekeeper]

Dang, that has got to be a bugger grinding that thin! I would be paranoid about a little oops.....nice job.

 

[Diamond G Knives]

Man you are Braver than me with those thin grinds!!! But I think that is the beauty of that style blade, it is basicly a huge razor blade, thin sliceing and choping will be no problem with that Baby!! Great job! Really like the handle!

God Bless
Mike

 

[HHH Knives]

Thanks for checking out the Nakiri! This is one of the thinest ground knives I have done. Its a 2+ inch tall razor blade with a handle!! lol