Forged knife from a file

I only made a small amount of knives.
To improve my skills I started forging basic shapes out of high-carbon file steels.

This is a simple knife with drifted finger loop.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pothelm 12e eeuw

Image
  Pothelm 12e eeuw Geïnspireerd door afbeeldingen uit de zg. "Maciejowski bijbel"heb ik deze, zo op het oog eenvoudige helm gemaakt uit 1,5 mm ijzerplaat. Traditionele constructie, geen laswerk maar messing klinknagels en een laagje zwarte verf.
Read more

Sponton speerpunt

Image
  Etched steel Spontoon for the Dutch Army. My contribution was the etch work. I created a mask from vinyl, by cutting a svg drawing with the Brother Scanncut. The crown above our kings "WA" monogram was created by the use of UV sensitive dry-film, normally used for creating electronic pcb's. The steel was etched in ferrochloric acid for 30 minutes. Next, the spontoon will go to the gold smith, who will gild the details, and then it will go back to the smith for blueing the steel.
Read more