kevin - the professor
Well-Known Member
Hello Everyone,
I was inspired to try this after seeing the bauernwehr thread. This knife is too short, most likely. Still, it is similar to the style. It was a lot of fun to make, and I will definitely make larger ones in the future.
I can't photo all that well, as you all know. This steel/heat treatment combination is the most attractive thing I have ever made. The steel is a random mix of low mang 1075 and w2 with about 400 layers. I varied the sizes of the beginning stock pieces so the layers are not all the same.
The hamon has the cool 3D effect you can sometimes get, and there is an obvious hada underneath.
The blade is about 11" long. Scales are just cow horn, fittings are nickel silver (looks cool, but it really clogs your files, doesn't it?).
Also, turns out nickel silver peens a little differently than steel, iron, or copper, so I did the things I have always done, but the edges of the pins are just visibble. I even put a little pattern of leaf veins on the nagel with filework and bluing. I also learned that I should start filework with a small triangle file to keep the round file from slipping (i.e., I screwed up part of the leaf).
thanks for looking, comments are welcomed, as always.
I was inspired to try this after seeing the bauernwehr thread. This knife is too short, most likely. Still, it is similar to the style. It was a lot of fun to make, and I will definitely make larger ones in the future.
I can't photo all that well, as you all know. This steel/heat treatment combination is the most attractive thing I have ever made. The steel is a random mix of low mang 1075 and w2 with about 400 layers. I varied the sizes of the beginning stock pieces so the layers are not all the same.
The hamon has the cool 3D effect you can sometimes get, and there is an obvious hada underneath.
The blade is about 11" long. Scales are just cow horn, fittings are nickel silver (looks cool, but it really clogs your files, doesn't it?).
Also, turns out nickel silver peens a little differently than steel, iron, or copper, so I did the things I have always done, but the edges of the pins are just visibble. I even put a little pattern of leaf veins on the nagel with filework and bluing. I also learned that I should start filework with a small triangle file to keep the round file from slipping (i.e., I screwed up part of the leaf).
thanks for looking, comments are welcomed, as always.