not another knife thread...

[canid]

got the blade finished, with an initial edge and i've sealed the handle. just needs wet sanded til it shines, and for the leather to be trimmed/sanded flush with the handle.

i have a friend who might want to buy it, but if not, i think i'll be doing another hard-sheath to go with it.

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working on the other two more tomorrow. i heat treated and beveled 5 blades today.

[canid]

i think i need to start angling the tangs a bit, so they follow the lines of the handles.

[Rick]

Pretty darn nice. I like the Puukko design. Good luck on the sale. He'll have a very nice knife.

[canid]

he might want one of the other ones, i'm not sure yet. i'm having a lot of fun with the puukkos, so i'm definitely going to just keep on making 'em.

[crashdive123]

That turned out great.

[Erratus Animus]

Those look good to me!.

[p moore]

Great work, I have seen a lot of good looking knives on this thread.

Paul

[canid]

thank you all.

i keep working on my finishing, which i would say is my biggest shortcoming.

i would say i'm getting pretty darned good at heat treating in a wood/charcoal fire.

[p moore]

I know what you mean. When you pull one out of the oven, seems you are only half way done.

Paul

[canid]

yeah. with the fine finishing, it feels like even by the time they are all assembled they are only half done.

sometimes, i'm trying to find a way to pull off a rough finished look and even that turns out to be just as much work.

like those blades where i haven't ground down through all the mill scale inclusions, or pitting, the surface work seems like it should require less attention, but it works out to be about the same as all the pre-polish work on any other blade, or ends up looking janky.

[canid]

the more i search around online, the more i wonder why - quality for quality - pattern welded steel bar costs almost exactly the same as the finished knives made from material of the same dimmensions. high end art knives aside of course.

[panch0]

Lookin good Candid. I have never built a hidden tang knife. You are ahead of the game.

[canid]

i've been doing a couple of them lately. peening is still proving a challenge to me though.

here's the one i'm working on right now:
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i wish i had the belt sander up and running, i have to do the concave contours with paper on a dowel. not so great for sanding down into the metal spacers. the middle piece is 3 layers of leather, which i plan to reapply a dye to after the shaping is done.

[crashdive123]

Man, that looks great and like it would be a real comfortable fit in the hand.

[canid]

i'm still shaping it a bit, a little at a time. i want this one to have a really good, natural feel in the hand while preserving a refined profile, so i don't want to force it [read: i'd like to be able to get a decent dollar for this one].

i mixed up some fine sanding dust and glue paste to fill one of the voids, which is drying now.

[Winter]

I'm liking that recurve blade alot.

[canid]

finished shaping and got the first coat of spar on there and a wet sanding. also re-shaped the handle on the puukko so it's not so big and clunky. i like the dimensions of both of these handles a great deal more now:

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[crashdive123]

They came out great.

[Rick]

Those are two good looking knives. Nice job!

[canid]

by the way: that krome edge [proprietary steel used in some craftsman circular saw blades] steel is water hardenable, and seemed to behave pretty stably, with no warpage, and little movement at all on quench.

i did not normalize before heat treat and it's pretty tough and flexible.

i didn't get my hardening heat even on the nessie, so there are some softspots and i might redo it.