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Treating Simple Carbon Steels
Lets say you have a blade forged or ground
out of some simple steel like 1060, 1084 or 5160 and you are ready to make it
hard so it will take an edge before the final polishing, handle fitting and sharpening.
You now need to heat treat it so that it will be a good blade and perform like
a knife supposed to. Knife
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Knives Tutorials: Kydex Sheath
With the knife in the sheath, I soften
a small spot on the front and push the Kydex tight against the blade for a good,
tight, custom fit. Rob
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Knife Tutorial by Tim Lively
How to forge knife. I started with some leaf
spring from a 57 Dodge half ton pick-up. Leaf spring from US made cars and light
trucks from the 1950s and 60s are made of a high carbon steel alloy called 5160.
This alloy is an excellent choice for almost any kind of knifemaking. 5160 has
0.56 - 0.64 carbon, 0.75 - 1.00 manganese, 0.15 - 0.35 silicon, 0.70 - 0.90 chromium.
It has great edge holding abilities and can withstand prying sideways better than
most high carbon steels. I heat the steel in the forge to a non-magnetic state
and hot cut a chunk about 7 inches long and about 2 inches wide. Here I just cut
off the eye end of the leaf spring. How
make Coal Forge
The coal forge is one of the fading pieces of equipment
for the knifemaker. Propane forges are rapidly becoming the norm. Coal is getting
harder for the general population to obtain and sometimes it is required to buy
it and have it shipped in. This makes it costly. However, if you can get it easily
and in fairly large quantities, you may want to make a coal forge. I used a coal
forge since I started forging until I build my first propane forge about six years
later. I still have the coal forge and keep coal on hand because when you run
out of propane on a Sunday evening, it is nice to not have to stop working but
instead just fire up the coal forge and keep right on going. Gas
Forge Building Tutorial
The diagram above shows the essential parts of
IG's (Indian George's) welding forge. As you can see, it consists of a horizontal
tube for the forge body with four legs welded on. Also, tangent to the circle
of the tube, there is a 2 inch diameter piece of pipe for the burner inlet tube
with a hole drilled and a nut welded in place to allow a screw to hold the burner
in place when applied to the forge. Also shown is the configuration and parts
needed for the burner assembly itself. Please see the parts list at the end of
this tutorial for a comprehensive list. Very
Simple Gas Forge
To make this forge you need a few things. First and foremost
is a tiger torch. You also need 22 full size 8"X4"X2" firebricks and 10 "slices"
or 8"X4"X1". This forge is simplicity itself. It works well as is or you can add
mortar and refractory to make a more permanent forge. The one thing that is different
from the forge that I am using is that I have mine on a cement slab so I don't
use the bottom seven bricks. 5160
steel spec's and heat treating
Considered a high-carbon alloy steel. As
quenched hardness of 58 to 63 HRC. Used for a variety of spring applications,
notably flat springs. Often uses Austempering as a method of heat-treating. HEAT
TREATING THE FORGED BLADE
The following is the procedure I use for the
heat treatment and basic forging sequence of my oil hardening hand forged blades
without the use of electricity or gas. Sheath
Making
Anyone with a Tommy Anderson knife will appreciate the form and
function of his sheaths. How does he make them fit so well and how does he get
those fancifull designs on the outside? Here we have a rare insight into the world
of Scandanavian sheath making from a master in the art. Make
a pouch sheath
Here I will try to explain how I make a pouch sheath.I
am using 7-8 oz. vegetable tanned leather.This piece wasnt the best but it works.
There are allot of pictures here so please be patient if the page is slow to load.
Bruce Refurbishing
a Marble's Woodcraft Knife and Sheath Making
There are 13 pictures and
corresponding directions in the Woodcraft sheath-making sequence described below. | 