Thread: Some of my knives...

By request, here are a few of the things I've done over the years. Tried to keep them small so they don't soak up bandwidth. The picture quality could be better.

The first is all pattern welded materials except the titanium liners. The second, patterned materials and pearl. The third is a small utility knife with mokume bolsters and mammoth ivory. The fourth is a utility chef's knife with low layer count and koa wood handle. Number five, most recently I've been working on making my own steel using traditional methods. That stuff is going into Japanese style blades.

Great work Mike. Elegant, yet functional

Beautiful knives!

You're trying to make your own tamahagane?!?!

WOW!

Not trying, doing. The material runs about 1.6% carbon on average with the nearest minimum of other alloying elements. With my good friends helping, we're up to about the 20th burn or so and getting a good 35 lbs of bloom each time. We're still in what I call the experimental stage, working on air flow, temperature, consistency of the steel etc. It's a two day job and not for the faint of heart.

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Not trying, doing. The material runs about 1.6% carbon on average with the nearest minimum of other alloying elements. With my good friends helping, we're up to about the 20th burn or so and getting a good 35 lbs of bloom each time. We're still in what I call the experimental stage, working on air flow, temperature, consistency of the steel etc. It's a two day job and not for the faint of heart.

N I C E ! ! ! !