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I made my best bud a knife last year, and he’s now used it on 1 blacktail, 1 black bear, and 3 caribou without a touch up. He sent me this video after our last hunt. I’m no professional knife maker and only use the most basic 1084 carbon steel due to ease of heat treating.
It’s really my only feedback so far and I’m pretty excited about how the edge has held up. I know there’s lots of far more skilled knife makers on here, but I think ultimately this is why we all do it. Just thought it was pretty cool.
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Impressive results right there.
Now with even more aplomb
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Yep….we thrive on positive feedback like that. Proud for ya.
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Great looking knife! Sounds like it performs as good as it looks!
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That's really neat! You're obviously doing something right!
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Cool! What Rc is your target?
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Cool! What Rc is your target?
Whatever Rc that will keep and edge like this! To be honest, I have no way of testing it, only going off of rough guesses based on others testing the same steel using the same techniques. I'd guess somewhere around 59-60 Rc. I tend to temper just a bit cooler as I'm afraid of the dreaded kitchen oven temp spike.
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Great feedback! That is a good looking knife! I like 1084 steel and used a good bit of it when I was forging blades.
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Very cool!I like O1 and A2
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I really like the knife in the photo. Great work
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Love the pattern. Great work.
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