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A good friend wants a light knife so I came up with this, I like it. Now to make a sled to drag his one-legged ass across the 1/2 mile of mud flats to the island I hunt nilgai on. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/qRfS3RQy/591.jpg)
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A good friend wants a light knife so I came up with this, I like it. Now to make a sled to drag his one-legged ass across the 1/2 mile of mud flats to the island I hunt nilgai on. Looking good Roger. What are you using for steel?
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A good friend wants a light knife so I came up with this, I like it. Now to make a sled to drag his one-legged ass across the 1/2 mile of mud flats to the island I hunt nilgai on. Looking good Roger. What are you using for steel? This is 1095, I'm going to order some CPM154 now that I found a place here in town that does heat treating. I don't have the proper equipment to heat treat some of these steels.
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Its not how you pick the booger..
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I like that blade profile….should be a user…
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Looks really close to a Fallkniven F1 blade profile. What grind?
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I ground the bevel on a 2dg angle, It weighs 2.5 oz. width is .125 1/8th.
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Looks really close to a Fallkniven F1 blade profile. What grind?
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I think I can keep it at 4 oz or a little under.
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Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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A good friend wants a light knife so I came up with this, I like it. Now to make a sled to drag his one-legged ass across the 1/2 mile of mud flats to the island I hunt nilgai on. Looking good Roger. What are you using for steel? This is 1095, I'm going to order some CPM154 now that I found a place here in town that does heat treating. I don't have the proper equipment to heat treat some of these steels. In their own ways, both are great steels for the home knife maker. CPM-154 has a great balance of properties, but considering its 6-10x the price of 1095, I can appreciate your choice to outsource the heat treatment. I've started playing with stainless a stainless called AEB-L. It's most commonly used in razor blades. It has a very fine grain structure which makes it very high on the toughness scale but doesn't' have the edge retention of your CPM-154. Price is comparable to 1095, which makes it a good test bed for learning to heat treat stainless. It took me a couple of "learning experiences" before I got it right, but $8.00 a lesson is a lot different than $50.00. Thanks for the update. I look forward to seeing what you do with the new steel.
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A good friend wants a light knife so I came up with this, I like it. Now to make a sled to drag his one-legged ass across the 1/2 mile of mud flats to the island I hunt nilgai on. Looking good Roger. What are you using for steel? This is 1095, I'm going to order some CPM154 now that I found a place here in town that does heat treating. I don't have the proper equipment to heat treat some of these steels. In their own ways, both are great steels for the home knife maker. CPM-154 has a great balance of properties, but considering its 6-10x the price of 1095, I can appreciate your choice to outsource the heat treatment. I've started playing with stainless a stainless called AEB-L. It's most commonly used in razor blades. It has a very fine grain structure which makes it very high on the toughness scale but doesn't' have the edge retention of your CPM-154. Price is comparable to 1095, which makes it a good test bed for learning to heat treat stainless. It took me a couple of "learning experiences" before I got it right, but $8.00 a lesson is a lot different than $50.00. Thanks for the update. I look forward to seeing what you do with the new steel. Thanks for that info.
God bless Texas-----------------------
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Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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Looks really good. I've made several knives but, nothing like that. Very nice.
Why do I have to press 1, for English?
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God bless Texas-----------------------
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Its not how you pick the booger..
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Stx, I just had my first two stainless blades heat treated at a place a lot closer to you, https://texasknife.com. Cost is 10 bucks ea. for blades under 10" in length. They'll also cryo the blade for an extra $5. They were fast and the work was outstanding. Added bonus in that when you call the place, you talk to a very nice and knowledgeable lady that will walk you thru the process. BTW, you're making nice looking blades!
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Stx, I just had my first two stainless blades heat treated at a place a lot closer to you, https://texasknife.com. Cost is 10 bucks ea. for blades under 10" in length. They'll also cryo the blade for an extra $5. They were fast and the work was outstanding. Added bonus in that when you call the place, you talk to a very nice and knowledgeable lady that will walk you thru the process. That is who I was planning on using, but there is a place here in Corpus that heat treats, and I was going to go talk to them and see what they offer. I plan on making custom fillet knives, they would sell well here, plus I'm well known in the local fishing community here.
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My bad, stx....I thought I saw where you were sending the blade out of state. Guess I just had my head out of alignment.
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God bless Texas-----------------------
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Its not how you pick the booger..
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Roger V Hunter
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