dave budd
31-01-2012, 06:50 PM
Perhaps not very bushcrafty, but they are going to be sharp :)
Whilst at the Belgium knife show last year I sat looking at some replica Saxon blades and thinking that I should really have a go at some of this multibar stuff, particularly like the serpent and the wolfs tooth parts of the patterns.
So last week I lit the welding forge and had a go at a few firstsfor me :)
First multi bar blades (I've done wrought with a steel edge butted on before, but never more than that), first serpent, first wolfs tooth.
Today I had some time to kill between blades that I was meant to be working on (they were tempering), so I got the blades ground up.
Here they are so far. Still some meat to come off after HT, but they were forged a bit too close to finished dimensions so I don't know if my 7 layer (odd thicknesses, left over from some laminated blades) stars will show properly :rolleyes: Other than a little cheesing in the edge steel (now ground away) due to the wrought contiuously splitting during thinning, everything went absolutely fine :)
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/buddknives1/Knives/multi1.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/buddknives1/Knives/multi5.jpg
The larger blade is a shade under 11"
Let's hope they survive the heat treat when I get to it later in the week!
Whilst at the Belgium knife show last year I sat looking at some replica Saxon blades and thinking that I should really have a go at some of this multibar stuff, particularly like the serpent and the wolfs tooth parts of the patterns.
So last week I lit the welding forge and had a go at a few firstsfor me :)
First multi bar blades (I've done wrought with a steel edge butted on before, but never more than that), first serpent, first wolfs tooth.
Today I had some time to kill between blades that I was meant to be working on (they were tempering), so I got the blades ground up.
Here they are so far. Still some meat to come off after HT, but they were forged a bit too close to finished dimensions so I don't know if my 7 layer (odd thicknesses, left over from some laminated blades) stars will show properly :rolleyes: Other than a little cheesing in the edge steel (now ground away) due to the wrought contiuously splitting during thinning, everything went absolutely fine :)
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/buddknives1/Knives/multi1.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/buddknives1/Knives/multi5.jpg
The larger blade is a shade under 11"
Let's hope they survive the heat treat when I get to it later in the week!