Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by mrsell63

I am in for a long sanding session. :

Spent about 3 hours odd so far & finally have all the 80 grit lines out of the tang and spine side using 220 grit I recommend some thing coarser to start with
Now for the spine work & blade face yah

Originally Posted by guthriemt

Bruno,
I LOVE that top blade. Great work!!

Thanks!. It's a popular shape. I like it too. It's very flowing, very elegant, and very light. And the jimps make it feel nice when you hold it.

Originally Posted by Substance

Spent about 3 hours odd so far & finally have all the 80 grit lines out of the tang and spine side using 220 grit I recommend some thing coarser to start with
Now for the spine work & blade face yah

My rule of thumb is I use either double the previous grit or 200 more than the previous grit, whichever is smaller. The jump from 80 to 220 is pretty big.

We'll I'm partial to the third blade ! Looks great Bruno ,,I am going to to have to make a stand for something that beautiful! Tc

Four kitchen knives, three razors in 1095. One of the large knives "pinged" in the brine...

It's hard to say from the pics, but those knives look pretty roughly finished. You always have to watch if there are sharp corners or partially folded over tears. Sharp corners provide a very convenient place for cracks and tears to start. The thermal shock can sometimes literally rip a blade from a tang.
Water quenching is by definition more violent than oil quenching, so for kitchen knives I started preferring oil steels. Something which is long and flat such as a kitchen knife has a higher chance of warping in water or brine quench.

EDIT: Did you anneal the knives first before quenching?

Yes, I brought all the blades to critical and let them cool to ambient air temp before applying clay to them. As soon as I quenched them all they were tempered. After temper I ran them all over a synthetic 180 grit water stone and noticed the crack. Will post pics of it later. This blade also warped a bit too.

Blades were not rough at all, were finished to 240 grit, razors to 400. Razors did well...

My apologies. The knives, are they the ones on that wooden plank? I thought they looked rough but the pic isn't that detailed. Was this after annealing? Then it could be it is the scale I mistook for hammer marks?

Pics are cell pics. Will get better pics when I get off work.

here's my last work, a ring for my daughter (wenge, brass, artificial pearl).. since razors have been on hold lately, I thought I'll share this (and not get killed for it ) , it was a pain to work with since it is rather small (the finger on the pic is my pinky finger)