Made from an old file, first try at file work!
Laminated stained birch. 8" OAL






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IN GOD WE TRUST

Good Job!!  

Bout time Steve!    

I'm impressed! Looks great. Clean lines.Nice job on the filework too!

Kid

Some nice looking file work there.  (nice knife too).  Dan

Awesome!

That turned out really nice Steve! nice even hand on the filework too!

Steve that is very nice, file work look great
dana  

Steve, That looks real good...but just wait    Doc

very nice Steve , love the file work ya done great      

Thanks for the positive comments!

Dana, Tippet, Karl & Lins post on grain refinement was timely for me for future knowledge!  This knife fails from that standpoint.  I "Clay" coated the spine on this knife for heat treat/quench to "protect it" and try to create a "Hamon" because of two small pits or air pockets on the blade that I thought went through the blade from one side to the other.  I heated to just past non-magnetic and quenched in heated vegie oil. I don't think I tempered it at a high enough temp or long enough, if I recall I did 375 deg. two times for one hour.  After the tempering cycles and final finish and etching while sharpening the knife the edge crumbled as I sharpened.  If you look closely at the first pic you can see the edge is ragged!

I'm assuming that is where I made my mistake!

The good news is I learned a bunch from my failure.  This was to be a knife for one of my nephew's as a birthday gift. the next will be better!

This is a great resource fo me as a newbie in this endeavor!  Thank you one and all for shareing your knowledge freely.

Steve

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