I got wood today

[Likkmee]

 

[Missourian]

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Very nice...

...I recognize the Nessmuks...that's on my list...

Whatcha making them out of?

 

[Missourian]

No opinions?

It feels good.

EDIT- honestly...it looks different in person than in the image.



Maybe that will help

 

[Missourian]

It's growing on me...I think...

 

[Missourian]

Slowly but surely...

 

[Missourian]

Alright...that's as far as I'm going before the heat treatment...

 

[Missourian]

Heat treat ...









Temper time... 450° for two hours...

 

[Missourian]

Temper cycle one...

 

[Missourian]

...and we officially have a knife.

Blade is hard...file skips right off.

Spine is softer...but not unhardened.

Tang is soft.



That's all for tonight. Tomorrow there will be sanding....

 

[Missourian]

 

[Missourian]

Had to test the heat treatment...and it was only ok.

Not soft enough to retreat, but also not as hard as I would have liked.

The blade is softest at the point of the test and gets hardest at the tip as a result of the differential heat treat (edge quench). This is the first time I tried an edge quench...so I had to test it.

Six strikes with a wooden mallet...

 

[Missourian]

Handle time... Burmese Blackwood...











...and that ends the power tool portion of this project. The rest is rasps, files, and sandpaper.

 

[Missourian]

More rough sanding...and found a pretty cool piece of leather at in the scrap bin at Springfield Leather to make a sheath from...

 

[Missourian]

Another new technique for me...

Usually with wooden scales, I'll epoxy the knife up with pins in place and never peen them...as the epoxy doesn't leave room for the pin heads to expand. This time I coated the pins with beeswax so they could be remover, the holes reamed and then replace the pins and peen them.

Step one complete...

4

 

[Missourian]

Peening...

 

[Missourian]

Video of the peening technique...

 

[Missourian]

Final sanding...

 

[DudleySmith]

Good stuff. Wish I had time for projects like that; I spend most of time weeding, mowing, and pruning 9 months out of the year. Gonna have to scale down and let go of some stuff.

Does that wood you're using handle oils off your hands well without blackening or looking dirty, or do you have to keep it varnished?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Im only 34 so that is still an everyday occurence for me

Shit. I remember those times. I heard once on a forum "how can you hide a boner" in public.

**** that!!!! I get a boner I jump up and down, lookie, lookie what I got!!!!!

Do you call the doctor when it lasts for 4 hours ?

just stare at this picture for 2 seconds

 

[the other mike]

Im only 34 so that is still an everyday occurence for me

Shit. I remember those times. I heard once on a forum "how can you hide a boner" in public.

**** that!!!! I get a boner I jump up and down, lookie, lookie what I got!!!!!

Do you call the doctor when it lasts for 4 hours ?

just stare at this picture for 2 seconds
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Ewww. Shining bathtub scene alert.