Blade Texture Question

Hi there!

I've been taking a few orders on kitchen knives now, and i'm facing a new challenge, as I would say.

my client wants a knife with a texture as close as possible to this one here :



How would you create this ? My first tought was to hammer it, but since it is quite a thin blade (2mm taper down to 0.5 mm) I don't want to take the risk to warp the thing. Could you grind something like that ? how ?

Any tough and advises are deeply appreciated ^^

Thanks!

Olivier

 

Hey Oliver,
I have tried to create something of that effect in the past using a ball pen hammer. but the marks where not as wide as the one in the picture.
other option would be to use a dremel with a round diamond bit....

 

Yeah I tough about that. It would take considerable time tough... do you think it could be done with some sort of large punch ? to get larger dents than the ball pen hammer could do ?

 

I am assuming it could...never tried it. I would give it a try on some piece of scrap first....

 

I've tried on scrap metal and dimaond and carbide head of a dremmel works fine (did'nt took that long, actually). Now i've but a small question : how do you kind "even" the dents that the dremmel head leave to have a smoother finish ? rigth now I caan clearly see every pass with the dremmel tool

 

You will have to sand them down by hand.

 

I would say those are either pressed in or hammered using a top tool. I would press them in with a 1-2 ton arbor press. Curious as to what the other side looks like.... if they are on both sides, I'd say they were pressed in with both a top and bottom die at the same time.