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04-02-2022, 05:33 PM
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It’s my daughter’s boyfriend’s birthday tomorrow, and I decided to make him a set of crook knives. They’ll be here in a week, so I have a little time.
While I was at it, I decided to make myself a knife as well.
The steel is O1, 1/8” thick for the crook knives, 7/64” thick for mine. A few hours with a hacksaw and files, and removed file marks with a sharpening stone. I didn’t have a good form for bending the crook knives, but they didn’t turn out too bad.
Ready for heat treating!
Ok…struggling with photos…hopefully I’ll get that figured out soon.
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Well, photo uploading is eluding me. Never mind, I guess.
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(04-02-2022, 06:32 PM)MauleSkinner Wrote: Well, photo uploading is eluding me. Never mind, I guess.
I can upload them for you, if you like. PM incoming
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Here you go
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Thanks, Aram!
Obviously the bottom two are the crook knives. I plan to make the handles in two pieces for those, with a mortise in one side and then glued together.
For my knife, I decided to try through-drilling the handle for the tapered tang, and peening the end of the tang to help secure it. The goal is something similar to a Mora 122 to complement my 120 that I use for whittling.
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Heat treating today…
No serenade,
No fire brigade,
Just pyromania!
A local store had the “one log fire” on clearance, so I decided to give that a try. Light the center, and used my leaf blower to force air to get it good and hot. I used a locking pliers to hang the blades into the fire. By the time it burned the center hole big enough for the crook blades to fit, it had also burned through a split in the other side…you can see by he one picture that he log burned through on the bottom because of the blower. I had to hold both the blower and the steel in just the right place to get it to work. Didn’t work out as well as I hoped, but it still worked.
Quenched in peanut oil and wiped off, next I’ll scrub them with a scotch rite pad and temper them in a toaster oven.
Aram will hopefully have the pics up soon.
Thanks for looking!
