I took some new pic of all the knifes I have made so take a look

Finished the Jarl Seax it has Rune on the blade and it has a elk handle with brass spaces will put pic up very soon.

Two big Blades All set and handles set just waiting for epoxy to set and tomorrow I will start the shaping.

Made our first slab of Micarta today it came out great

Need a knife for work so I whipped this one up

Spear point scramasax 01 steel mahogany white oak and walnut with brass spacers in the handle.

Going to try and make my own micarta handle for a hunter handle. was gong to experiment tonight with it but I am beat so it is going to be early in bed try it tomorrow.

A Chef Knife we made Lace wood handle.

The hunter I have been working on hope to get some better pic of this one
The handle is made of African Padauk wood the 5 pin patten and lanyard ring made of brass
Blade is 01 steel coal forge hardened  Vine work filing on full length spine full tang.

Another Day in the shop complete Heat Treated a bunch of blades And polished a few of them did lots of work on my first chef knife. Also got a hunter knife I have been working on handle started waiting on epoxy to dry.

Time spent heat treating the blades looking forward to spending the next few day's making polishing and making handles.

Plans for later today preheat treatment polishing to get out all the heavy grinds then getting that forge fired up. Also thinking about doing a chef knife been wanting to make one. Going to research on a few different types chef knifes not sure on what kind I would like to make yet. Also found this guys site todayhttp://trollsky.jalbum.net/Trollsky%20Custom%20knives/ he makes amazing knifes and he has a great video series he does http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM1Bnpxipb8H4GJoITnJ0XQ worth a watch.

A trip to Midcity Steel to day was fruitful. Now we are siting on 40' of 01 hot rolled steel 2" wide 3/16 thick some new belts for the sander and some nice bosch blades to do some cutting. The forge was heated up today and hopefully we do some heat treatment tomorrow so we can make some knifes happen.

Some reserch I have been doing

0-1 is perhaps the most forgiving of any knife quality steel other than the very simple alloy types, and produces a blade of excellent quality for most normal use. It can be heat treated very easily. Further references? Well, the ole' master, Cooper, used it for many years and folks do love his blades because they're tough. Awhile back, one of the best of the blade smiths said that well treated 0-1 would out cut any Damascus, and no one argued with him. Edge holding is exceptional. 0-1 is precision ground unless you're lucky enough to stumble across some mill bar. Goof up the heat treat and 0-1 will let you try again as often as you like, as long as you don't overheat the metal. Tough on grinding belts.

0-6 is the next step up from 0-1 easy heat treat but pure hell to grind. It's significantly tougher, with finer crystalline structure and hard graphitic particles that resist wear.  Stock is both hot rolled and precision ground. Hot rolled prices are reasonable. Very tough to grind. Edges are incredible, lasting even longer than the best Damascus and even 0-1. Has an odd, rather orange spark.

W-1, W-2, and the series of 10-- steels from 1045 through 1095 are the ultimate in simplicity and very shallow hardening so they may be used to make a selectively hardened edge as one sees on old Japanese swords. Toughness is outstanding, with these alloys being used for grader blade edges, truck springs and files. Uses up grinding belts at quite a rapid rate. Edges are acceptable with 1045, good with 1060, nice with 1084, and excellent with 1095, W-1 or W-2. Those last two are often referred to as O-F, old file. It is very easy to get the higher carbon end of this series way too hard to make a good knife.

Tomorrow a trip to the metal place in Westport MA for some steel wanna see what they got there need to pick up some sandpaper and hopeful heat up the forge. Lots of work to do now need to sleep.

The Skinner

Here are two Skinners we have been working on 

a few more seax we are working on

some more assorted blades all waiting on heat treatment

Have a few thing to do to day in the shop have about 15 blades getting ready for the heat treatment and need to grind out a few more. Waiting for the new cement we put in the forge to harden. Got a big bag of wood scraps to go through to some great wood like walnut and lace going to be a fun day.

File knife

A few more projects