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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #90 on: November 05, 2016, 09:39:04 PM


Thanks Poncho, I just grind, copy and paste  :)
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #91 on: November 06, 2016, 07:33:36 AM


Thanks Poncho, I just grind, copy and paste  :)

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That hook is just a right bit of awesome  :tu: Was on my phone earlier and it looked great but now on my home pc I can see all the details and it is even better :tu:


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #92 on: November 07, 2016, 10:51:24 PM

Sometimes everything can seem a little pointless  :shrug:



Ah that's better  ;)


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #93 on: November 08, 2016, 03:20:20 AM
Tony your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! Good history on the shephaeds axe.    :tu:       :like:
What? Enablers! Are you serrrrious? Where? I dont see any.
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #94 on: November 08, 2016, 06:34:36 AM
Tony your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! Good history on the shephaeds axe.    :tu:       :like:

Thanks David,
(I'm just trying to get out of buying her a Christmas present   :D )

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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #95 on: November 12, 2016, 11:01:18 PM
Started this a while ago after reading Mikes post on 4inch knives







Got put to one side for sometime...
Lost a few pictures, it was going to have a straight blade with a scandi grind but it turned slightly curved with a convex edge  ::)
 


I should probably leave it alone there   :whistle:



In a certain light you can almost see some letters  ;)



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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #96 on: November 13, 2016, 04:32:28 AM
Excellent work (as usual) and great pics of it Sparky :tu:

That is a great idea for a knife as well :like:


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #97 on: November 13, 2016, 09:02:49 AM

Thanks Poncho,  :salute:
I'm not sure if it's hardened properly yet, need to play with it  :think:

I lost a bunch of pictures during a laptop change over (my fault  ::) )
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #98 on: November 14, 2016, 01:51:09 PM
Looking good Tony  :salute:

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I'm not sure if it's hardened properly yet, need to play with it

What I did last round was quench in oil, immediately out and dip into water and back into the oil........and I'm sticking to that till further notice.  :salute:



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Reply #99 on: November 14, 2016, 09:30:53 PM

I dip mine in oil and... umm wiggle it about a bit  :D

Oh, then in the oven with baked potatoes 1hour at 210o c  ;)
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #100 on: November 14, 2016, 10:31:59 PM
I usually use water but have used oil when grinding misc. things and try never to get it to hot by cooling often :cheers: but I haven't ever made some of the things that you two have made :salute: :like:


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #101 on: November 14, 2016, 11:14:50 PM
Files are normally made of W2.... the W stands for water quench (O1 is oil quench, A2 is air quench). Oil quenching W2 will achieve a lower than optimal hardness, but minimise potential for cracking.


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #102 on: November 15, 2016, 06:27:03 AM

Al  :salute:

I am using it in my garage at the moment to see what it feels like  :cheers:
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #103 on: November 15, 2016, 08:42:00 AM

I'm not sure if it's hardened properly yet, need to play with it  :think:


I dip mine in oil and... umm wiggle it about a bit  :D
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #104 on: November 15, 2016, 10:48:59 AM

I dip mine in oil and... umm wiggle it about a bit  :D

Oh, then in the oven with baked potatoes 1hour at 210o c  ;)

What kind of oil?
I started with Canola, then recently got advice to use automotive oil thinned with....thinners  :D
I had about a liter of 10W40 meant for my previous car, thinned that down and eventually mixed it with the Canola oil.

The reason why I went for oil-water-oil is recently often as not the blades didn't harden.
I isolated two problems, first my magnet used for testing for critical went all middle-aged and stopped being.......attractive  :rofl:  Got too hot I think.
Secondly my oil just got too hot quenching multiple blades......I think.

Also want to mention my first file knife, also the first time I heat treated a blade.......it was short & chunky, same as yours, and after 3 or 4 unsuccessful oil quenches I went to water and that worked.

Unfortunately I'm not being very scientific, the last 3 blades I heat treated have been the best so far, first for the oil-water-oil method, AND the first to go directly into the oven for tempering after the heat treat.

 


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #105 on: November 15, 2016, 09:15:15 PM

I'm not sure if it's hardened properly yet, need to play with it  :think:


I dip mine in oil and... umm wiggle it about a bit  :D
      :ahhh

pfrsantos is slacking off....    :ahhh

He's not as young as he used to be  >:D
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Reply #106 on: November 15, 2016, 09:22:44 PM

I isolated two problems, first my magnet used for testing for critical went all middle-aged and stopped being.......attractive  :rofl:  Got too hot I think.
Secondly my oil just got too hot quenching multiple blades......I think.


 :D :D

I was using used motor oil but it made my coffee taste funny, so I got some cheap veg oil

 :o Who are you calling short and chunky???

I think mine is OK, I will see how it holds up  :cheers:
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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #107 on: November 17, 2016, 11:00:29 PM
The G/F asks me to look at a knife for her,
It once belonged to her Grandfather he would carry it when they went for picnics in the mountains when she was a little girl,
she also says 'please don't harm it** or the sheath, replaced by her Grandfather after loosing the original'

**(I don't know why she should say this to me)  :whistle:

Missing the butt cap


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Reply #108 on: November 17, 2016, 11:05:54 PM

So I decide to replace the missing butt cap with one made from a silver locket I have in my projects box  :think:
I make a mould from some clay


That works OK




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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #109 on: November 17, 2016, 11:09:30 PM
Please don't harm it :rofl:

I have no idea why she would tell you that ???

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I know you will take care of it and in a good way :cheers:


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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #110 on: November 17, 2016, 11:11:40 PM
Now all I need is a sheath
Leather bag I bought a few weeks ago...






Turns out the leather is more PVC  than cow


And the silver is a little more 'leady than I would like'  ::)
Oh well too late now






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Re: Newest release from my garage
Reply #111 on: November 17, 2016, 11:12:25 PM
OK while I was posting you already fixed it :o

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Reply #112 on: November 17, 2016, 11:14:39 PM
Also a nice sheath Sparky :like: :like: :like:


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Reply #113 on: November 17, 2016, 11:23:44 PM

Thanks Mate,
I'm happy now but I was a bit annoyed when I realised it was leather lined PVC but its not too terrible   :-\
Oh and the lead cap  ::)   sigh!
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Reply #114 on: November 18, 2016, 12:53:19 AM

Thanks Mate,
I'm happy now but I was a bit annoyed when I realised it was leather lined PVC but its not too terrible   :-\
Oh and the lead cap  ::)   sigh!

The cap looks fine :pok: :D

Yes would have been irritating for sure to find out something I thought was leather wasn't  :rant: :D


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Reply #115 on: November 18, 2016, 09:37:57 AM
Well done!  :salute:


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Reply #116 on: November 18, 2016, 09:47:13 AM

Thanks G  :salute:
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Reply #117 on: November 18, 2016, 02:53:56 PM
Nice job Sparky  :like: :cheers: :tu:


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Reply #118 on: November 21, 2016, 07:16:02 PM
Nice job, may I ask how you got the "leather" to hold its shape, I have worked with leathers that you just wet and then you can shape them but that doesn't work for all leathers, right?


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Reply #119 on: November 21, 2016, 08:16:35 PM

I don't think what I did will be permanent like leather should be, it feels very soft  :think:

My 'leather' seems to be a thin layer of suede backed with vinyl

As you said I soaked mine in warm water for half an hour then sandwiched it between two pieces of sleeping mat and clamped it together between two boards to dry for a couple of days

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