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A new forged 1075 kitchen knife still in polish stage and a quick W1 weeding knife. You can see the sugha hamon at 80 grit before tempering. Weeding knife is done with wet Rutland 2700 degree furnace cement straight into the forge 10 min soak at temperature, interrupted quench 3 seconds in 3 seconds out then […]
Burmese Dha drawing Collins Guatemala Mid Weight Custom (128 GTK Prototype Pattern) Collins Guatemala 1965 USN MKII “Fastest thing on the planet”, (my profile file work and convex edge)
Just a prototype working version of a 128-23 and a 128-12 blade only, scale material is paper micarta, or phenolic resin and paper its probably as close as you can get to the old style collins black scales. Scales are bolted on with NAS stainless bolts, silver plated NAS reduced head nuts and NAS stainless washers. […]
GTK 128-22 and 128-12 pre polish:
It ended up being a flip flop hamon or temper line because I discovered after several attempts that in order to harden these thin blades in a Japanese style you had to harden the spine also. Cupping and warping was a problem at first:
See attached: I decided to see if I could resurface a Brown and Sharpe 760 gauge block. I bought the magnetic chuck for polishing blades The gauge bock came pout pretty good considering:
Nice wave pattern, curly loa below: Same metal different angle: