Earlier today I tried hammering the steel. I was hoping I could give it a bit of a downward tilt, to later grind it into a kukri or something like that. Well, it didn't work out. Like, at all. There's a reason they hammer it as a square bar first, and then shape it. All I managed to do was bend the steel a little bit the way I wanted, and too much in ways I didn't. I tried to straighten it out and salvage it, but... I don't know how well that's working.
Once I'd figured it wasn't getting any straighter, I decided I might as well start to grinding on it and make something of it anyway. Here's what I'd come up with so far:
Tomorrow or tonight I'll be able to quench it. I need more propane- I'm not sure the tank I have right now has enough left in it. But after that, she's ready for a handle and all that.
Later tonight I should also get about 4 videos up, showing some of the progress of the knife. What would be really cool is if I had something I could do a timelapse with. I don't have a camera capable of that, unfortunately.
Edit: Videos are up!
this is awesome and manly
ReplyDeletelooking good
ReplyDeleteWhy do those pics look like a FPS game lol
ReplyDeletewhoa thats crazy and cool. and they do look like pic from an fps game
ReplyDeletei am so gonna do this!
ReplyDeletepoopies n' smoochies!
that knife is looking badass. lol, i was totally gonna say the same thing Viperman said. Those pics look like you're about to slice up some bad dudes in a game
ReplyDeletedat knife *dat ass face*
ReplyDeleteWow, watching your learning process is really fascinating...
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interesting
ReplyDeleteyou should forge a katana..
ReplyDeleteHaha, the knife is REALLY shiny in those first pictures.
ReplyDeleteI actually play a survivial game that lets you smith things, and when you don't have an anvil, they use a quarry. Not sure how practical that would be for this day and age (or where to find one exactly) but if it's around you, maybe see if that works?
Of course I know shit about these things when it comes to real life, so maybe I'm giving you the worst advice and have no idea what I'm talking about. :X
Oh man, I'd love to do a katana some day. Unfortunately, right now I simply don't have the money to make a forge long enough to accomodate that. At best, I could do a tanto or possibly a wakizashi.
ReplyDeleteThat's actually a really good idea, Tal. I have heard some people use granite for an anvil. In fact, some places that make headstones have large slabs from broken headstones that are polished on one side- that's the perfect surface for an anvil. Thanks for the idea again, I'd forgotten that was even an option!
That's weird, im using chrome and it looks ok, have you tried clearing the cache?, what browser do you use?
ReplyDeleteYooooooo
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I thought it was from a game at first, lulz.
ReplyDeleteFirst I thought...hey where's the vids I' was lookin for? But then there they were. You look like you're pretty good at this. Do you sell them or is this a hobby?
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