A few of mine as a hello

[Little Kieran]

Learnt a lot from browsing this forum and thought it was about time I said hello. I'm from the UK, mostly a woodworker but knife making hooked me in and now I'm addicted! Thought I'd share some of my efforts with you all here.

This is an axe I restored, forged in London in the late 1800's if the blade is true, had rusted mostly away so reworked the eye, removed all the rust, carved and fitted a new handle.

4 inch cutting surface on an 18 inch hickory shaft with a textured lower 1/3. Sheath is a snap button closure in veg tan leather.



This is a speed bowie machete, forged and then ground to shape from an old lawn mower blade. This one shows some scars from me using it for a while for bush clearing, generally beating it up.

8 inch cutting surface, 3.5mm thick, with an unsharpened clip with an internally pinned 6 inch full tang handle in black walnut. Hardened, quenched in brine and hard spring tempered. Black cross-draw veg tan sheath.



This is a tanto inspired knife, stock removed from a sheet of 1.2510 Tool Steel.

5 1/2 inch cutting surface, 4mm thick with a stainless steel corby riveted 4 inch purpleheart handle. Normalised and then hardened, quenched in water and differentially tempered. Black straight-draw veg tan sheath.




Thought I'd show you all some of the skills you've taught me, any critiques, comments or ideas are greatly appreciated!

Kieran

[gables]

Those look great! Thanks for sharing.

[2treks]

Nice job. Love the little hatchet.
Thanks,
CTT

[D.Ellis]

Good start. Welcome aboard.
Darcy  

[tomsm44]

Way to dive in head first.  Any pics of the textured part of the hatchet handle?  I'd love to see how that looks.  Keep em coming.

Matt

[Little Kieran]

Afraid it might be a while, I'm up at university a couple hundred miles away from it at the minute haha.

I've got withdrawal symptoms from forging already!

[Steve Nuckels]

Cool stuff Kieran!

Welcome to the Forum.

Steve
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