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Home-made round knives

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I decided to make a couple of round knives from a circular saw blade that I had. The blade is at least 40 years old so I figured it should be high carbon steel. I overheated it a bit when re-hardening it as I forgot how tricky it is working with thin steel in the forge. The burning does give a nice pattern on the steel when polished!:) The left one has applewood for the handle, the right is Blackwood, copper pins and finished with 4 coats of burnishing oil polished on a denim buffer. The shaping of the handles is a bit rough because once they were attached to the blades the blade shape made it awkward to work them. Good enough for me to use but not to sell!

Now I just have to sharpen them and make leather sheathes to hold/protect them.

 

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Awesome opossum.

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Heck ya those look pretty darn good there, Really like that forge!!! 

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Nice project

 

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