Very cool! Some steels take hamons better than others but that should show up nicely, especially if you etch it.
Looking very good!!!! I swear....I have got to stay out of this forum.... what's a girl to do??? :dunno: Nice....thanks for the pictures!
The guard is soldiered in place and ready to shape. The slabs of rosewood Dymondwood are cut to length, a few more evenings and she'll be done Any Ideas why I can't post pics ?
I'm making a knife that I broke TWO sets of scales on - over $30 worth. It does happen, that's for sure. Unless you're lazy and just cord wrap everything! Looks good!
My tolerences were a little tight and the extra thickness of the glue in the pin holes just split it down the middle. :dunno: Thanks !
Good job - I found out the hard way that sratches don't really show up until you buff so I tend to do that earlier now just to make them show up. It's a pain to think you're finished and up pops a bunch more. That looks great - I'm about done with a Camp knife that looks alot like that. I even made my first Kydex sheath! I applaud you for starting out with some harder things - many never do fit guards and I know it's not that easy. Stuff like that and bolsters and tapering tangs are things we need to get used to early. There's things I've never done like grinding the top edge and now I'm scared to do it!
It's funny, Don, I'm studying your knives to learn how to do without a guard (do it well, I mean) Everything new I try scares me I'm to ignorant to know what I'm ignorant about It would help if I had some knife making tools, then I could be scared faster Oh well, some day I'll have a real grinder []
I knbow that feeling, I use a belt sander sometimes clamped in the vise by the handle and a file and hacksaw. My fire bricks I had for heat treating got broke so the knife I did the other day got heat treated by putting it in my fire pit outside with some lumber scraps then turned the leaf blower on it to get it to temp and dropped it in a pan of used peanut oil. lol
