1084 & Cocobolo

[Kostoglotov]

Messed around with that round thing on the end of the tool arm and some clay and here's how it turned out.

1084 HT w/ Clay backing
Cocobolo
SS Corby & Thong tube

Comments and criticisms welcomed.

[Frankallen]

Very Beautiful Knife!! Love that hamon!! Wish I could use Cocobolo, but I am allergic to the stuff..


Frank

[dbalfa]

KEWL dude! I like sculptured handes too! ....and a hamon to boot....nice!

[C Craft]

That's sweeeeeeeet!
The Cocobolo makes for a beautiful handle!
The hamon really pops, couple that with a great knife and the cocobolo make for on great combo!
What was your medium for obtaining the hamon and process you used, if you don't mind sharing? I don't see many that come across as well as yours!

[J. Doyle]

Nice work. That's a good combination of materials.

[Kostoglotov]

Thanks for the compliments Guys

For the Hamon. I grind to about 220 (what ever the 3M Gator A100?s correspond to). Do the knifemakers normalization 3X. Coat the spine with a thinned out furnace cement, (http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=2021995) then ?drizzle? strings of the cement from the spine towards the edge. Something like this -

Heat treat and quench in Mineral oil.

Clean up A100-A65-A45-A30- grey scotchbrite belt. Hit with the buffer and Green compound (went back to the belts a couple of time due to thinking I had the scratches out but didn?t) and etched in Ferric.

[Frankallen]

Originally Posted by Kostoglotov

Thanks for the compliments Guys

For the Hamon. I grind to about 220 (what ever the 3M Gator A100?s correspond to). Do the knifemakers normalization 3X. Coat the spine with a thinned out furnace cement, (http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=2021995) then ?drizzle? strings of the cement from the spine towards the edge. Something like this -

Heat treat and quench in Mineral oil.

Clean up A100-A65-A45-A30- grey scotchbrite belt. Hit with the buffer and Green compound (went back to the belts a couple of time due to thinking I had the scratches out but didn?t) and etched in Ferric.

Do you wait for the clay to harden before you heat and quench?? Thanks so much for sharing !!


Frank

[Kostoglotov]

Frank

I usually put it on and do a quick bakeout to drive the moisture out - something like 5 seconds in then out watching the steam come off the cement and then repeat until there is no more steam coming off the blade

You can go right in but I did have failures due to the material spalling off cause of the moisture. Waiting overnight didn't seem to improve the results.

If you are using satinite - I had better luck waiting overnight before heat treating.

Hope that helps