Or Abbreviated Bowie? I needed to make something to wear on my belt for my first Blade show trip so I came up with this. This is my wagon wheel wrought/pure nickel/1080 laminate with a stubby little 4" blade. Copper ferrule with file work and madrone handle. Copper pin and peened copper lanyard tube.
I forgot to grind off the weld bead on the spine.
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I like it.
TXCP
Beautiful!!!!!!!
Very cool
SHAZAM!
As always just awesome.
Looks good but a quick "how ya did it" would be greatly appreciated by those of us with less knowledge and skill.
Please :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl:
Now that is really cool!!!! :thumbsup:
BRAVO!!!!
Steve
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Potomac Forge
Thanks folks!
Razor... The billet was forged by stacking: 1/4" wrought iron plate, pure nickel foil, 1080, pure nickel foil, 1/4" wrought iron plate. The surfaces were all ground clean and flat, stacked, placed in a vice to shut it all tight, and then all seams welded with a Craftsman 110V wirefeed welder. I weld up all seams to prevent any oxygen from getting in there and scaling surfaces. Nickel can be tricky to forge weld and any scale can cause failure. I then weld a rebar handle onto the billet, soak it at a high welding heat and hammer down to a 1/4" billet. I can usually forge the tip down without delamination, but I don't recommend it for your first time! Better off treating it as a stock removal project once your drawing out is done. When drawing out, I count hammer blows and make sure that each side is forged the same way otherwise your core can get very wonky.
Hey Scott, Great job!
Really nice!
Nice!
Gorgeous, simply Gorgeous.
Madrone?
TBRA
Cool looking! I like it.
I think you have the most unique style I've seen in a long time! Awesome work!
Very nice knife!