Some drop point hunters.

Hope you guys like pictures

Here are some drop points I've been working on. I have four of them finished and I just glued the fifth one up today.

 

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That's all for now folks! More to come tomorrow!

 

Very nice knives and excellent hamons. What type of steel are you using for those? From the looks of these you will do that WI proud. Personally i am about to pull my hair out, spent last night and all day working on a clip point fighter style just to have it ping in the 30 seconds between quench and tempering oven about 5 minutes ago. I had it in my hand and actually felt the pop. I didnt even have to look to know it was already garbage.

 

Thank you man, that's 1084. I was hoping the hamons would have followed the clay better but my quench tank was to shallow so it didn't harden up to the clay. Still functional tho. I can't wait to use that WI I plan on doing some really big projects this year. My goal is to make a knife worth over $1000 but with my little name in this world I know it won't sell for that.

That's to bad you had a ping... I've only had that happen once and it was my fault. I water quenched a 1095 blade that had an edge .020" thick. My dad asked me "why did it klink?" Lol so I destroyed it to see the grain structure.

What steel were you using?

 

I was using 1084 which should have been pretty forgiving, horizontal sanded to 400. should not have been any stress risers but i think my oil on this was too warm and may have cooled it too quick, more like a water quench. The only other one i have broken was also 1084 but i tried a brine quench for a hamon and it did not fair well. Anyway great work man and sorry to derail your thread.

 

It's funny how warmer oil cools quicker hey? As I did my heat treating the hamons slowly got higher and higher from the oil warming up. The first one I did didn't even harden enough to be acceptable so I re did it and now it's fully hard. That's why it's not etched.

It's funny that 1084 cracked on you. What are you using for a heat source? Don't worry about the thread lol it's all good.

 

Thanks Myth, that's stabilized dyed yellow cottonwood. I like project threads with lots of pics

 

They all look excellent. Nice file work. Job well done.

 

Those are some nice looking blades, love how you can see the hamon and the shadow line above that too!

 

Thanks Greg and Mike!

Mike, that shadow is from normalizing the blades while the refractory cement is on the blades. So I actually have four different structures in the steel.
I think it was four, maybe three? :/ lol

 

Just got the handle ground down on the last one of the bunch. Kinda sucks working in the Canadian knife shop. Maybe one day I can upgrade

 

Just finished up the last one











Next project is to make all the sheaths!

 

Nice work JS :clap2: looks like you have a signature JSK knife now

 

Thanks Rob! It was the only thing I could come up with lol.

 

So I was thinking of doing fold over sheaths for these knives. I tried one last night and failed. What's the secret to getting the leather the right size? I might just end up doing the usual sheath style that I make. Just seems simpler that way.

 

Here is a progress shot of the sheaths as of last night. I'm not sure if I really like them or not but they will work.

 

I really like those knives. Very well done. Are you using "Diablo" belts for handles and grinding blades? If not blades, what are you using for profile and bevelling? I had looked at the Diablo belts as they are the only zirconium belts I have seen for a 4x36 sander.

 

Thanks man, I'm using diablo belts for my 4x36. They seem to last the longest out of the little selection of belts there is here. I use my 4x36 to flatten the knife blanks before I bevel them on my 1x42. I also do all the handle shaping on the 4x36.