1stMate Matt Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 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. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted May 8, 2009 Author Posted May 8, 2009 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. ..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. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
Guest Posted May 9, 2009 Posted May 9, 2009 Hopefully this doesn't sound lame.... But I want to see the progress....... Keep posting as you go along.....
oderlesseye Posted May 9, 2009 Posted May 9, 2009 Hey Matt ..Maybe you can continue the thread On building my sword after ye done with Our dearest DMans project...Be interesting to watch! http://www.myspace.com/oderlesseyehttp://www.facebook....esseye?ref=nameHangin at Execution dock awaits. May yer Life be a long and joyous adventure in gettin there!As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words: "My treasure to he who can understand."
1stMate Matt Posted May 9, 2009 Author Posted May 9, 2009 I will show each step along the way :) promise! -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted May 13, 2009 Author Posted May 13, 2009 Here is the blade blank 100% ready for the edge bevels. You can see I pulled the back edge back quite a bit. From here I will edge it, file it and heat treat it. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted May 19, 2009 Author Posted May 19, 2009 Updates coming today... -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted May 19, 2009 Author Posted May 19, 2009 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. Here are a few shots of the blade with it's back edge. 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! -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted May 19, 2009 Author Posted May 19, 2009 Here is a short video of the heat treat. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted May 19, 2009 Author Posted May 19, 2009 Here she is after HT. All scaled up and ready for polish. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
Iron Hand Posted May 20, 2009 Posted May 20, 2009 Here she is after HT. All scaled up and ready for polish. Matt.....That is a nicely shaped blade...Have ye decided on a handle shape yet? Iron Hand's Plunder Purveyor of Quality Goodes of questionable origins
1stMate Matt Posted May 20, 2009 Author Posted May 20, 2009 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... -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
D.man Posted May 20, 2009 Posted May 20, 2009 I Think Simple will be fine, unless you really want to get fancy on it
1stMate Matt Posted June 4, 2009 Author Posted June 4, 2009 I should be done shortly my friend. I was in LA for the last 5 days. I am working on it now and will have an update shortly. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
oderlesseye Posted June 4, 2009 Posted June 4, 2009 Don't Worry Dman..You will get the dang Knife a day after NorCal.. Eagh eagh.. heee heee ... http://www.myspace.com/oderlesseyehttp://www.facebook....esseye?ref=nameHangin at Execution dock awaits. May yer Life be a long and joyous adventure in gettin there!As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words: "My treasure to he who can understand."
oderlesseye Posted June 4, 2009 Posted June 4, 2009 (edited) Bump accidental double post... Edited June 4, 2009 by oderlesseye http://www.myspace.com/oderlesseyehttp://www.facebook....esseye?ref=nameHangin at Execution dock awaits. May yer Life be a long and joyous adventure in gettin there!As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words: "My treasure to he who can understand."
1stMate Matt Posted June 8, 2009 Author Posted June 8, 2009 No it will be done before NorCal. Should have it in his hands by friday. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted June 8, 2009 Author Posted June 8, 2009 I would have a big update but I am using a new camera and I dont have the right cable to upload... I will soon. -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
1stMate Matt Posted June 9, 2009 Author Posted June 9, 2009 OK I got the camera to work for me. Here is the blade @ 80grit after HT(heat treat). -1st Mate of Pirates Magazine -Bladesmith/Owner of That Works Studio http://youtube.com/thatworks thatworks.shop
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