Keeping busy!

[JD Brown]

Here are a couple blades forged out and rough ground , no real bevels have been ground yet should keep me busy this week and weekend, the larger of the two is going to be a kitchen knife for the wife and the clip blade will go to a buddy who hooked me up with a nice propane forge ! Forged from 1/4” by 1” O1 tool steel.

 

[opaul]

I like both of those

 

[JD Brown]

Progress !! Slowly but surely …. I waited a little later in life to have my son and no one told me how busy they keep you when they hit the toddler years but here is the wife’s new kitchen knife ground and heat normalized , I have to make a run to the store and pick up more oil before I can harden it . I thought I had enough but my Labrador must have gotten into the tank a some point and helped herself lol

 

[JD Brown]

Wife’s new chopper is finally done ! After some trouble with a handle material I had never worked before that ended up acting just like glass I decided to put the classic ebony on her ! The wife didn’t want pins , so I am trying out a new epoxy “Gflex” , we will see how it does .

 

[opaul]

Very nice.

 

[KenH]

I never put pins in kitchen knives with hidden tangs. With epoxy and perhaps a few notches in the tang it will never come off without busting the wooden handle. Your wife is going to LOVE that knife.