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D.Man's New Knife! W.I.P.


1stMate Matt

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As some of you have seen, I have started a trade thread in the market and Mr D.Man has taken me up on it. I am making him a bowie knife in trade for some gear that he had. I asked him if it would be cool for me to start a build thread on his knife so here it goes!

First we have to cut the blade blank out. Here we will use our CnC plasma table to cut the blank out of some alloy. The piece of alloy that we will use for the knife is the negative left over fromus cutting out our huggggggge leaf blades a few years back. We try to use up every little piece of metal that we canand the rest gets used for damascus billets.

Here is a short video of our CnC cutter making the blade blank.

To the left of where the plasma was cutting you can see one that it had just cut out and to the right you can see a finished blade that we used for setting up the cut.

From here I will sand a unique profile to the blade and then grind the edge bevels. I try to pull the flase edge back a bit or do something to make each of these bowies a bit differently shaped. It gives each knife a indivisual feel and look so that there are not hundreds of the same knife out there.

 

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I am way behind in my posting because my net has been down. So I am going to try and get cought up.

Here is the knife blade deburred, stamped and ready to be edged. As seen here it has a 80 grit finish.

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..Next step is reshaping the flase or back edge a bit. I like to pull that radius back a bit. Then edging.

BTW. The blade is 14" from tip to shoulder.

 

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Hey Matt ..Maybe you can continue the thread On building my sword after ye done with Our dearest DMans project...Be interesting to watch!

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Here is the knife after the rough edge has been ground. I use a 14" wheel on a big belt sander to do most of my grinding and polishing. For the rough edge I prefer a 36 grit belt.

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Here are a few shots of the blade with it's back edge.

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I was trying to decide if I wanted to do the filework on the spine before or after heat treat. If you do it before then the filemarks come out nice and black due to the scale. If you do it after then they are polished. I think I will go with the polished look on this piece.

After a 80 grit sand over the whole blade it is now ready for heat treat.

To the forge!

 

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-Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio

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Well I could go crazy with the handle if I wanted. This was in trade for a few used waistcoats so I was trying to keep it simple. However, I usually fail at keeping things simple.

The aim was for this to be a simple yet nice D-ring bowie. I planned on doing a guard with a small side ring and my standard stage combat leather wrapped handle. I can be talked into more though...

 

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Don't Worry Dman..You will get the dang Knife a day after NorCal.. Eagh eagh.. heee heee ...

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accidental double post...

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