Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by prodigy

Just got a block of flame box elder I'll be cutting down for scales. It's a lot more dense than I was expecting, and the color is amazing!

Made a few turnings out of stabilized box elder. Really nice wood to work with. And that's a gorgeous example to cut your scales from prodigy! Going to be very nice looking..Just hard to choose your 'A' face cause there's so much going on on that blank.

Next on my bench is this Japanese Towa;

Spent a bunch of time on it already with mothers and steel wool, but decided I had to take it apart to really do it right.
What's note worthy, for me, is that I revisited trying to drill out the old pins again. And succeeded in saving the original washers!
Difference this time is I filed the head three strokes before centrepunching. And held the scale in my left hand sort of biasing the drill bit in the direction I thought it should go , as Shaun suggested a ways back. Anyway, yea! Will be able to clean the insides proper, and reuse the original brass.
Cheers gents, keep those projects coming..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Next on my bench is this Japanese Towa;

Spent a bunch of time on it already with mothers and steel wool, but decided I had to take it apart to really do it right.
What's note worthy, for me, is that I revisited trying to drill out the old pins again. And succeeded in saving the original washers!
Difference this time is I filed the head three strokes before centrepunching. And held the scale in my left hand sort of biasing the drill bit in the direction I thought it should go , as Shaun suggested a ways back. Anyway, yea! Will be able to clean the insides proper, and reuse the original brass.
Cheers gents, keep those projects coming..

B52, I have drilled out original collars & if I was off center a bit, I angled the bit toward the center but not so much to touch the ID of the collar. I have successfully removed old original collars when angling. I guess it made the pin weaker going to one side & the collar comes right off. It's kinda hard to explain but you might catch my drift.

I do Steve, and that's just what I did this time. The bit started to drift and I dropped the scale end, drifting the bit back towards center. Knew I had it right when the washer popped right off!

Glad to see you guys getting something done (Mike!).

So I unpinned MikeT's butchered blade 'Searsasori' today, wrapped it up in aluminum tape, sandblasted the hole and took it to my buddy for a plug weld. After a bit of disc, a couple of divots on either side. Gotta blast again and take it back over.

Dang Tom that hole is nearly invisible.. I expected there to be an off color to the filler metal..
So when do you start the grindorauma? Looking great so far!
Ofcourse Im not worried about it turning out okay... Ive got a Henckels Friodur that is being held hostage!!! Muahahahahahahah!

HAR! No worries, MikeT . The most you may do without is the tang-stamp. Gonna be tedious!
Tang hole has to be done so it can be all smoothed out. Then, and only then, will the butchering commence!
I figure the tail may get into this area as-shaping. My welding buddy might tire of me.....Oh wait! His truck is broken!
May as well hone that 17 up and give it a run. It may well wind up being yours!

LOL man I really love the Henckels but I would never keep it, even if you broke that Sears in half.
Im curious about the different age groups of Henckels... People say that the older ones are better and the newer ones so so. But this Friodur is a beautiful and balanced blade, you can tell it was ground very well.
I may hone it up, well it really only needs a touch up, it takes hairs off the arm well enough, maybe some time on the Escher?
That reminds me. Ive got this 12k Chinese stone that was never used, cut from big block and needs to get surfaced... Anybody know about that? Needs special tools to grind down? Tried sand paper and didnt get far.

Originally Posted by MikeT

LOL man I really love the Henckels but I would never keep it, even if you broke that Sears in half.
Im curious about the different age groups of Henckels... People say that the older ones are better and the newer ones so so. But this Friodur is a beautiful and balanced blade, you can tell it was ground very well.
I may hone it up, well it really only needs a touch up, it takes hairs off the arm well enough, maybe some time on the Escher?
That reminds me. Ive got this 12k Chinese stone that was never used, cut from big block and needs to get surfaced... Anybody know about that? Needs special tools to grind down? Tried sand paper and didnt get far.

Yes MikeT it is a natural Chinese called a Guangxi.
Some might differ from others in grit.

Is your buddy using TIG Tom?
Nice work so far on the fill job.
And then what? Drawing out the tail and creating a proper kamisori shape out of er?