Neck knife wip done for a friendly contest on a France forum. There is not a lot of explanations but I tried to translate it in english for you drawings : putting tape on it to protect them from water/marker ink 1/8 W2 steel laser cutting roughly ground final shape on little sander hand polishing before piercing
marking holes flat sanding I make sure everything is real flat before grinding bevels centering the edge
grinding time first grind before quench is done hand sanding 60 grit scratches with 150 grit water quenching : I make sure there is no scrathes lefts from the 60 grit belt, edge is about 1 mm heating the oven refractory coating, 1 to 2 mm thick edge is rounded (sorry bad pic) At this point I have no much time to take pics of the quench, but everything went fine
Thank you for posting the sequence of photos. It's great to see a knife come together. Great shape too. Can't wait to see the finished product. Dan
after tempering I sand the edge to see if there is any crack before going furter flat sanding (again) after final grinding, 60 grit to 120 grit : hand sanding blade (looks like I find it funny huhuhu) little dip in ferric to see if there is a line hiding
my ''wood shop'' by winter, sanding wood inside my shop is a real pain in the *** done a couple of scales to have some choice it will be wenge roughly cut and shaped hand rouding scales
didn't document the etching process because I have to redo it twice. I wanted a precise result and it didn't come at first try... at first at the end (almost) ready for final lap final test before gluing and peening
gluing with pins sanding after drying little polishing to see if there is any hiden scratches ready for oil bath linen oil/terebenthine bath for the night
Great post Fred !!!!!! I love the knife and the documentation on the post. I see you do a lot of hand sanding. I have been using Windex for my hand sanding and it sure works good and cuts the steel a lot faster and gives a much better finish than water.
Thank you ! I use wd40 for hand sanding my blades, I've tried windex but I found that the paper I use tend to rip too often.
I also forgot to take pictures of my electro-etching when I put my mark on the blade, it will be for the next time.
Freddy , where you been , miss your awesome posts , a true master , lovely again !!! And x2 on WD40 Cool same pyrometer !!
Hi Rob ! Thank you, it's great to come back here, I have some reading to do, I think I miss a lot of cool things on this forum
