Stretched

[Wade Hougham]

Just finished these two forged from rr spikes. Both have alligator skin grips. The long one is 15 1/2" long with a 10" blade and the other is 12" long with a 7" blade. Both spikes started out at 6 5/8" long.

 

[backtines]

Cool as hell brutha ! Lovin the grips.. Awesome !

 

[Church & Son]

Sometimes the hammerin' gets good to ya!!! Awesome set....

 

[kidterico]

Wade nice knife work. Really like the handles. KT

 

[Lagrange]

Good job Wade.

 

[Wade Hougham]

Thanks for the comments. These were both fun!!!!!!!
Wade

 

[jonathan creason]

Dang Wade, you pulled that steel a long ways. Nice job on both of them, I can see why they move quickly for you.

 

[franklin]

sure looks good!! did you shoot the gator?

 

[TacticallySharp]

Wade,

Great looking knives as usual. I love the way you move the steel.

George

 

[roadapples]

Wade,

Awesome looking work.

I've done several spike knives, but seem to have varing results with hardening and edge retentrion. I only use the spikes marked HC- the RR version of high carbon, and I know at best it's only about 40 points. Are there any surefire methods to get a better and consistant hardness from the RR spikes?
Thanks,
Mark

 

[Wade Hougham]

Jonathan, Franklin and George,
Sorry about not responding to your comments earlier. I had not been paying attention to my post. Thank you for commenting.
Mark, I use the HC spikes too, quenched into water. Most of the time I get a good edge hardening but some of the blades need to be quenched 2-3 times before they get good and hard. "If at first you don't succeed try try again". Thanks for the comment.
Wade