the challange was put out to all the makers on the JD forum to make a devils night knife/ object and this is what i came up with
well its done 8 inch of cpm3v hand sanded to 600 grit
wrought iron guard and but cap
black canvas spacers and red spalted stabilized maple burl the but cap is lightly hollowed
over all 13 inches
please let me know what you think and if i need to get a few more pictures up i can
also more info if i forgot anything
Coffee before Conciousness Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements? Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Very nicely done Butch. You set a very high bar indeed for knifemakers.
A quick question if you don't mind, did you sand before heat treat and then after as well to the 600 grit finish? The reason I ask is that today I have 3 blades of 3V going out for heat treat as well as some santoukus (CPM 154) and I'm wondering if I'm on the right track. That is exactly the way I was going to finish mine.
jimbo@stn24 wrote:Very nicely done Butch. You set a very high bar indeed for knifemakers.
A quick question if you don't mind, did you sand before heat treat and then after as well to the 600 grit finish? The reason I ask is that today I have 3 blades of 3V going out for heat treat as well as some santoukus (CPM 154) and I'm wondering if I'm on the right track. That is exactly the way I was going to finish mine.
i grind before heat treat to about 70-80% less its a really high allow steel ( think cpms60V or more ) its just too hard on belts after heat treat
i hand sanded the cpm10v push dagger before heat treat after trying to grind hardened 10V before
Duff you got to see the knife today so there (what happened to kayaking )