Cold Shunts

[AkWildman]

Here is a perfect example of why you must be very careful of cold shunts,as I worked the tang of this knife down I produced a cold shunt after I started the shoulder of the tang,I new I was going to have a cold shunt in the tang but also new were it was and that I would grind the tang past th he shunt in clean up .Its basically invisible under the scale and only becomes visable after grinding. My point of this is had I not known it was there I would have created a fail point had I not addressed it. Here are a couple of photos of before its visible and after.

 

[Jon Buescher]

thank you for showing this! I will definitely keep that in mind and watch for them

 

[Gliden07]

So what do you do to fix it?? Looks like a crack

 

[AkWildman]

So what do you do to fix it?? Looks like a crack

Not a crack its more like a fold that you forge in,I could of hot rasped it out before I reduced the width but I knew I would be grinding the tang beyond the cold lshunt .had I not known it was there and didn't address it it would have failed.