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jamesp Cave Dweller Member since October 2012 Posts: 36,595	Hunting Knife Mar 8, 2013 9:44:01 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jamesp on Mar 8, 2013 9:44:01 GMT -5 Did you grind that blade from a blank of Damascus?That stuff is some tough material!

Saskrock
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Hunting Knife Mar 8, 2013 10:58:23 GMT -5

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Post by Saskrock on Mar 8, 2013 10:58:23 GMT -5

I have a 8" flat lap that I used for the scales Mel.

The knife blade came shaped, credit for that goes to someone very talented in Pakistan selling on ebay. Here is a link to their Ebay account nothing up for sale right now but when they do again its sure to be awesome.
myworld.ebay.com/sharpedgeshop?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

Scott

jamesp Cave Dweller Member since October 2012 Posts: 36,595	Hunting Knife Mar 8, 2013 13:28:35 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jamesp on Mar 8, 2013 13:28:35 GMT -5 To make a blade that correct is a murderous job.They probably got a CNC that whips it out.But,those guys are good w/metal... That knife is real fine.

Rockoonz misunderstood rock expert Member since August 2009 Posts: 11,449	Hunting Knife Mar 9, 2013 12:40:32 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockoonz on Mar 9, 2013 12:40:32 GMT -5 Very nice job. By pressure fit did you have to heat the brass to slip it on? Lee
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Hunting Knife Mar 9, 2013 13:40:22 GMT -5

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Post by bhiatt on Mar 9, 2013 13:40:22 GMT -5

imo, nothing beats jade for a handle. This is one great looking knife.
Dont know about the lathes but I have looked up a bunch of videos showing how you get the pattern in the blades. Very cool stuff. They mill cut the pattern out of a hunk of steel usually 2 welded slabs together to get the right thickness. Then when its smashed down you get the visual effect.
Also they use these big machines that beat the steel flat instead of using a hammer like you would think. They place the molten steel on a anvil looking thing and a machine has some hammer thing that drops very fast, smashing the molten steel. Its way faster but it looks like it still takes some skill to do it right.
I have a machette style damascus that has a pretty thick blade. 680 wires in it. Has a bone handle that Id like to maybe one day replace it with jade. Thats if I can afford a chunk of jade.

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Rockoonz misunderstood rock expert Member since August 2009 Posts: 11,449	Hunting Knife Mar 9, 2013 14:30:32 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockoonz on Mar 9, 2013 14:30:32 GMT -5 Damascus steel making. Like the hammer. Lee
	“You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy—perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers—erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hunting Knife Mar 9, 2013 14:52:00 GMT -5

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Post by Saskrock on Mar 9, 2013 14:52:00 GMT -5

Lee, by pressure fit I mean it was tight enough going on that I had to hammer it in place. I used epoxy like a lubricant to get it on with the thought being that once it was cured it would be very difficult to remove between the tight fit and epoxy.

Scott

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