Wrought Iron San Mai Tactical Skinner

[Scott Roush]

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.

[charlie phillips]

I like it.


    TXCP

[DW]

Beautiful!!!!!!!

[MTArrowLauncher]

Very cool

[2treks]

SHAZAM!

[Izzy]

As always just awesome.

[razorback]

Looks good but a quick "how ya did it" would be greatly appreciated by those of us with less knowledge and skill.
Please      

[oldpaths]

Now that is really cool!!!!  

[Steve Nuckels]

BRAVO!!!!

Steve
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Potomac Forge

[Scott Roush]

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.

[Idahomike251]

Hey Scott,  Great job!

[GWV]

Really nice!

[bendbig]

Nice!

[TheBigRedArcher]

Gorgeous, simply Gorgeous.

Madrone?

TBRA

[MercilessMing]

Cool looking!  I like it.

[skullworks]

I think you have the most unique style I've seen in a long time! Awesome work!

[BrownA5]

Very nice knife!