Elmax Build n Test n Show Thread

I got around to working on my chunk of ELMAX.

So far it seems pretty nice to work with, cuts and grinds nice. Havent drilled any holes yet.

Here is what I have so far.

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Love the shape if that one can't wait to see it completed. You will post pictures if it when it is done won't you.
 
Thanks Gents,

This is what I did tonite. Drilled holes and hollow ground tang.
Didnt drill to hard I didnt think.
I always taper my tangs after heat treat, hope thats not a mistake with this stuff.
My oven is busy with some 1080 at the moment so HT will be tomorrow.

Greg
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Here we go, got my HT recipe, SS foil (I hate this stuff) and my oven programed.
Plate quenched, then its off to the hillbilly cryo tank.

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anytime I can get away with out a cut or nick using that heat treat foil I consider a major victory..
 
Okie dokie,

Out of the super duper hillbilly cryo tank. Two hours twice at 400 F. Back to the grinder to take the bevels a little higher and thinner.
Next to taper the tang, I use a 50 grit blaze and run it as fast as my grinder will run, then a new 120 at a slower speed.
I am making this one super thin.
Next to the granit surface plat to make every thing flat. Then hand sand.
Hand sanding is a little tough.

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As an added note, please dont sand with your tip hanging over the end of your jig like this!!!
 
Looks like you have a nice knife going there. I'm quite interested in this elmax steel and look forward to the results that you and the other testers get with it. It looks like it could be a great performer for the stock remover.

I really need to start doing tapered tangs. If you don't mind my asking, what size wheel are you using for the hollow grind on the taper?

Thanks,
Carey
 
Thanks for the comments fells,

Carey,

I use a two inch wheel, at the wide part of the tang I move the grind up and down to be about 3/16 from the edges.

So far this steel is pretty much straight forward to work with.
After heat treat its TOUGH to grind and VERY TOUGH to hand sand.
It took twice the sand paper and twice the time that 1080,1084, or
1095 takes.
It looks really good at 400 grit though.

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Greg
 
Please tell him for me,
that he has exceptional taste in desert ironwood...
I am so looking forward to seeing this knife finished!
 
Outstanding! A labor of love perhaps Greg?
Looking mighty good.
Dozier
 
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Went to surface a folder blade and UGHHHHHH. The Elmax didn't like that. Have a fixed blade fighter and a push dagger ready for HT.
Who does the best heattreat for the Elmax. No digital on my little oven. need someone to ht the blades.
 
Peter's Heat Treat has experience with it and has a forum here..
 
Well my wife took off with my camera and left it at a friends house so I dont have pics.
I tested my Elmax knife a few days ago and am impressed.
Chopped 2x4's, chopped tree branches, then sliced up three cardboard boxes.
Still shaving sharp at this point. Chopped more 2x4's, chopped more tree limbs.
Shaved curls off of plywood, cut more cardboard.
Chopped 1/8 inch brass rod with the help of a mallet, shaved brass rod.
Sabbed the point as deep into a 2x4 as I could, then bent side ways to try to break it off.
I did this about a hundred times, almost dug a hole through the board.
Tip showes no damage at all.
Knife is not quite shaving sharp now but still pretty dang sharp, it will still slice paper and cut cardboard.
Very tough stuff. I will use it again.
My son in law is getting this one.

Greg
 
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