I thought you guys would like to see some pictures of the progress of this
Thanks for looking!
Ariel
Two 7" diameter x 1/4" thickness grinding discs from an angular/hand grinder.
I place them together on a bench grinder, and with the aid of the supporting piece, I can work safely using leather gloves to keep the blade pressed enough to get a fast rough grinding.
Blade after the rough grinding, showing the swedge. I do the fine grinding after the HT.
Adjust for the places where the micarta handles will go later (I use both hands, but I was helding the camera for the pics)
Handle with a medium finish, ready to get drilled.
Drilling for the pins.
Blade ready for HT.
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Thanks for looking!
Ariel
Blade on the oven while I test my new IR thermometer I got for when I make mokume.
IR thermometer on the box, with the HTd blade on top (I added a lanyard hole at my customer's request)
No pics of putting it on oil as I needed both hands for that
Mirror polished, ready to go into the acid.
After the acid etch.
How I got the pattern in the micarta.
Handle ready!
Good pictures of the knife / sheath combo next week
To get to that mirror polish, once it's ground I use grit 80, then 150, then 220 and then 400. After that is polishing cloth. I don't have a belt sander, I use smaller diameter belt sand pieces on a rubber addaptor on that bench grinder you saw on previous pictures.
Here's a picture of an old tutorial showing this:
How about some teaser pictures until my webmaster finishes up the rest of the pictures and uploads them?
So I finished it and got decent pictures.
Integral San Mai Sub Hilt Fighter
San mai damascus 1010/1070 with a 5160 core.
16 1/4" overall length, 10" blade. 1/4" thickness. Double edged.
Hand made black and grey micarta handle. Cable pins. Leather lanyard with a 1010/1070 "droplet" style bead. Heavy duty handmade leather sheath.
Sheath still need to be finished, but it's 90% done. Yes, I do hand stitch my sheaths.
In hand.
