The Sam Cade Thread of Knifey Goodness

[Sam Cade]

Getting the calipers out and measuring a bunch of knives it looks like I'm around .03". A dime is .053". Pretty close to the rule of thumb (half the thickness of a dime) that I was told.

As an interesting data point, Peters Heat Treat recommends an minimum edge thickness of .015".

 

[kieranklein]

I believe you can get away with that thin if your heat treating stainless.

 

[Sam Cade]

A slower quench-curve would probably let you get away with thinner edges.

On that note, I experimentally edge quenched a straight 1095 knife in brine and the entire edge just blew right off. I found it in the bottom of the bucket, in a curve.

Fascinating.

 

[kieranklein]

I am not going to try 1095 till I get my kiln running. I can't give it the proper soak it needs in a coal forge. That and I have would rather use quenching oil than brine for reasons you yourself found out.

 

[Sam Cade]

Mail day!

G10 haul.

The two on the left are layered with black. The third from left is layed OD/Sage.


...and to stink up the shop.

 

[blarby]

Excellent !

 

[Sam Cade]

OD/Green G10 tapered scales on a VSK.

Look at that alloy banding in the blade.

 

[Sam Cade]

Here at the shop it is raining sideways.

With rain comes a break in the heat and the opportunity to do some light forging without feeling like a rotisserie chicken.

A kiridashi in process.

Ready for heat treatment.

 

[Sam Cade]

Look into my eyes!

 

[jerkface11]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't get bored with Sam around.

 

[9mmforMe]

LOL...geez what a character!

 

[Sam Cade]

Blank for what JShirley calls the "Scalliwag"

 

[Sam Cade]

....and now it looks like this:

 

[jerkface11]

Ooh that looks very slicey.

 

[Sam Cade]

Ooh that looks very slicey.

It should be pretty impressive with that grind, thinness and big potbelly.

It is .13" 15n20, right handed high saber grind , so the other side is zero-drag flat.

Swish!

 

[JShirley]

That, my friend, is a good-looking knife.

 

[Sam Cade]

What shall we do for scales?

 

[chameleonbear]

What shall we do for scales?

I'd say do a Black or Blue G10 with Orange liners... However that is just me, and I love the way the bright liners with dark scales looks.

 

[JShirley]

Something that will show off the nickel in the 15n20.

 

[jerkface11]

I'd use that horn in post #180

 

[Sam Cade]

I'd use that horn in post #180

That is waaaay too thick for this little guy. I'd have to grind most of it away and grinding horn is... nasty.

Those will end up on a much bigger knife.

 

[Sam Cade]

A better look at how this Scalliwag is ground.

 

[hso]

15n20

Is the stock material 15n20?

 

[Sam Cade]

Is the stock material 15n20?

Aye. Tis. From Aldo.

 

[kieranklein]

I have a bar of that left over from a Damascus attempt. Maybe I should do some thing with it.