What did you do this week?

[jomomoa]

That's some beautiful grain on those scales!

 

[Bruno]

Nice!

I did heat treatment on some full flats.

And 2 san mai kitchen knives with damascus sides and 52100 core.

 

[jomomoa]

Took a bit to find the term and it's not 100 percent certain.
Chatgpt calls the raised areas Jacquard stripe or satin stripe

photo Chagpt referenced

 

[32t]

a couple of things ths week that i am very happy with the results.

 

[Bruno]

I love that axe cover.

Those vambraces (I think they're called) do they have a functional role or are they more like cosplay items? They look like things you'd see in a movie or a rennaisance fair but you hardly ever seem them well made like this. I know you're retired but I bet if you started selling items like that they would sell like hotcakes.

 

[Shawn]

That's some beautiful grain on those scales!

Thanks. The purple one is stabilized and dyed, but the other maple and walnut are both finished with tru-oil gunstock finish. Both sets had some curl (the maple had a lot more obviously) but that stuff brings out the grain very nicely.

 

[32t]

I love that axe cover.

Those vambraces (I think they're called) do they have a functional role or are they more like cosplay items? They look like things you'd see in a movie or a rennaisance fair but you hardly ever seem them well made like this. I know you're retired but I bet if you started selling items like that they would sell like hotcakes.

thanks i like the blue because it is not usual and it shows in the woods where people usually think of using a bright red etc.

the vambraces are of the LARP style they are on the thinner side and are not hardened etc.

 

[Shawn]

Made a few more sets of dies for my press. A set of drawing dies, and a set milled at 4 degrees (8 total) to rough in bevels. Or at least try to haha. If I find they don't work, I can just flatten them or cut a diagonal or something to re purpose them. I do have one more set that I am making to 1 inch squaring dies. I got everything done except the V cut.

 

[Bruno]

Waaw that's really neat!

 

[Shawn]

Thanks! Im lost with your book, but i do have a little bit of some kind of talent haha.

 

[32t]

if we all were the same life would certainly be boring

 

[Bruno]

I finished this

 

[Bruno]

The design and the scales are fine but I don't really like the combination of steel. Iirc it's 1084 and 15N20 and it has a lower contrast than I am used to and etches a bit different. But this was the last one in that steel so now it's gone.

 

[32t]

i have one of that steel and like it very much. do you think that the many layers has something to do with the contrast?

 

[Bruno]

Yeah the steel is fine. I mean as a razor it's great. You are right that the number of layers is a factor but it's also the 1084 which reacts different than the O2 I normally use.

 

[Bruno]

Fini2 full flats and also made templates. If the customer approves, i can make them in series.

 

[Bruno]

Finally got some light forging done. My finger was sore but not dramatic.

I made 8 fixed handke razors from 5 mm bar stock. Onky the hollows remain to be done. And also a wootz knife and a small W2.

 

[Bruno]

So my oldest is doing an internship for 5 weeks as the final part of the bachelors degree.
It's very stressful because she has to have comprehensive lesson plans for every day, individual development files for each kid, etc. On top of that she has to produce a ton of supporting materials which is what I spend my free hours doing so that she can focus on the lesson plans.

Anyway today she had an activity that involved making strings of packaging chips and yesterday evening she was in a panic because she couldn't find the child safe threading needles she knows she has. So I made 5 new ones out of G10. I chose G10 because it's very stiff and strong even when it's thin and narrow.

they're not the prettiest but they should work fine for threading packaging chips on lengths of twine.