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Oh did I say that I've got an electric kiln that goes to 1900 C
See? I knew we could become friends...
Oh did I say that I've got an electric kiln that goes to 1900 C
Never been an issueSee? I knew we could become friends...
This is the one ive got, pictured borrowed from the net as my kiln is buried under a mountain of stuff.Never been an issue
That knife was designed by Japanese police that were training British commandos during world war two,,,, beautifulReading that just made me think of what i was given many years ago, A knife from a guy we used to know and some other bits and patches and it is quite heavy as the grip seems to be bronze.
This is the one ive got, pictured borrowed from the net as my kiln is buried under a mountain of stuff.
Nice leather skills, Its been a few years since i used my leather work tools, I have my dads old stuff mainly for the show trade but i have used ot to make saddles and a few costumes for guys that do battle reinactmentsHere's one I made earlier:
I am of course using my other alias.
Yep still annealed, I've got to go thro the grades of wet and dry to get the finish I'm after. At 240 so far. Still got the other side to do yet, plus take out a dink as I dropped it on the floor.
Handle will be 10 mm thick carbon fibre sheet cut to shape. Will drill and pin with brass pins
It's sort of become one of those round tuit projects
Oh did I say that I've got an electric kiln that goes to 1900 C
Nice bit of kit. Perfect for heat treating and I am assuming you could even use it for melting down scrap.
The kiln has the potential to harden file steel (simple alloy steels) its not practical for forging though. How long does it take to get that hot?
Forge in the Austinite state via magnet teat if it gets hot enough. If it doesn't get thier go to plan B I reckonI’m not quite sure. Only fired it up once
I went to a workshop a while back and the guy there had a induction heater he made to heat up metal and told me he used it as a furnace aswell, I was quite inpressed seeing it make a 1" bar glow.
Stick a bit of brass or copper in there on full chat. If it melts, the furnace is still good for 1100C.
You should be able to do some very precise heat treating in that, possibly the most critical part of knife making! I am only slightly jealous.
Expensive heat though. Fast though. Not so sure about knives especially 01, get it too hot and it's game overI went to a workshop a while back and the guy there had a induction heater he made to heat up metal and told me he used it as a furnace aswell, I was quite inpressed seeing it make a 1" bar glow.
There is a mass of different steels for knife building.
The real trick is selection of the one for the task at hand. For instance a skinner needs to hold its edge a machete or kukri needs some flexibility and a survival type knife really needs to be easy to re sharpen. Then we have a divers knife that needs high corrosion protection with resilience
The above would be three different choices of course.
I have a lot of old "cast steel " wood chisels, the steel takes an excellent edge and holds it, I never see any posts for knife making from this source of material, I can shave with my best chisels and the backs are polished to a mirror finish, honing is finished with autosol polish on a bit of flat wood , mdf or glass what ever is to hand, would like to see a knife made from an old chisel,
Chris
Got given a diving survival knife by my dad to put a hole in it so it can be put on a leash.
I don't know what steel it is made of but it has blunttened 10 or so drill bits, hss cobalt and even spot weld hardened. And barely scatches the surface