WIP For five hunters

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metal99

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Just had these ordered a couple weeks ago so I figured this would be a good time for a WIP!

Stock removal from 1084. I have the blades cut out and rough ground. I am working on refining the lines with my files. This is the latest progress so far. More pictures to come!
 

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Ok I tried uploading some more pictures through the site but I couldn't get them to work. Here is the file work and makers mark on one knife ready for heat treat.

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And one shot of another one almost ready for heat treatment.

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The three larger ones will get black canvas micarta scales and the smaller two will get stabilized cotton wood and cocobolo.
 
Thanks for the complements everyone!
I got some more work done this evening and now have two ready for heat treatment. I'm still waiting for a deposit on the other three so I might leave them out for the time being.

Here are a few pictures of the progress so far.

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I really need to upgrade my belt sander, the 1x42 I have makes flat grinding tough.

In case your wondering why I only have one hole drilled in the tang, I don't have a drill press at home so I used my cordless. After heat treat I will use the drill press for the other two holes. I am planning on edge quenching these so I won't have to worry about the tang being to hard to drill.
 
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I forgot all about hunting season so I didn't have a chance to get any more work done on these knifes yet. I got a nice little buck on Saturday so now that hunting is done and over with I will have more time to work on my knives. :)
 
All ready for heat treating :) I'm going to fire up the forge tomorrow and get them done.
I will be doing all five of them now.

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All ready for heat treat! I've never done a coated differential heat treat so I am a little bit nervous about this.

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Well they are all hardened. I am working on tempering them right now. I did one cycle at 400 for two hours so far. I'm always so nervous when I'm heat treating a knife especially when I'm trying something new. The refractory cement stayed on the knives through the whole process and was very easy to remove after the quench. I hope they turned out ok, they passed the file test and are softer towards the clay. I'm just never sure if I get them hot enough because of the fear of over heating them that I have.

The forge I used is one that I made. It's a "V" forge made from 1/4" plate steel. It's about 18"x5.5" and 6" deep. It seems to work quite well.

Here are a few pictures, let me know what you guys think! Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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Thanks Jon, I have to re heat treat one of them and then the fun starts. Sanding, sanding and more sanding lol. The hamons didn't turn out very good so I think I will just do a satin finish on these ones.
 
Thanks Chris, I had to make that forge for heat treating a big chopper I made. It works very well and only cost me about $20 to make. I just finished re heat treating the knife that failed on me so now it's time to finish sanding them and install the handles :)
 
Got some more work done! I cleaned up all the knives and etched them. Four of them turned out fairly well but I had to re harden one of them. The one that I re hardened isn't going to get etched because the hamon goes from the guard to the spine in a 45 degree angle and looks funny.

Next time I do a coated heat treat I am going to try a faster quench or thinner cement. I didn't get them to harden all the way to the cement so they just look like they are edge quenched.

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Thanks man, I can't wait to see them finished as well lol. I have four of the handles glued up now. I just have to wait for them to dry to glue up the fifth. I ran out of clamps.
 
One down four more to go! This is taking longer then I hoped but they are slowly getting done.
This one has stabilized flame cottonwood. It was stabilized by Jon Kennedy here on the forum. Pretty good stuff.

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