Thread: Various Knives

Made a start on a new project the other day. A comission for a longer bladed companion piece to the tanto I did a while back for the Alaskan bear hunter. Not a traditional Wakazishi (will not have a habaki/blade collar or handle wrap etc) ) but lighlty inspired by that style with 20 inch blade and 9 1/2 inch handle in a back scabbard.
First was I needed to draw a pattern with the smaller (western styled) tanto for inspiration.


Make a sheet steel template and select a suitable bar of steel and in this case it is 4.3mm 1075



Scribe the template onto the 1075 bar and grind to dimensions



do the pre heat treat grind. My forge was not quite long enough to get the full length to temp so I cut a section from the closed far end to allow for "painting" the blade with the heat to ensure the full length was to quenching heat.



Have it in the tempering oven for its second 2 hr cycle so will get back to the finish grind after I do the handle shaping on another knife I have to get ready to go for engraving