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1st feather
For chat
1st try at feather damascus without doing Ws. 9.5 inches long, 5.25 blade. Elk Horn handle. 15n20 and 1084 What do you think? TJ Smith resize image.jpg __________________ TJ Smith Knifemaker |
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I think it looks very good - not perfect - but very good, that's not an easy pattern. On the next one, try to get the feather's spine to go to the blade's tip by forging a curve into it rather than grinding the shape into the profile...
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HI Ray
My thoughts exactly. this piece split about .5 inch past the tip otherwise that was the plan. The hard part is forging it longer without splitting the weld lines. I'm going to mig weld them next time. Hope to talk to you later. Take care TJ SMITH __________________ TJ Smith Knifemaker |
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TJ, forging blades like that has it's issues. Mainly that it must be forged hot or shearing happens. Turned out pretty nice though.
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I'd be super stoked had that been my first feather !!!
speaking of stoked back to this dam forest fire ! __________________ R.Watson B.C. Canada |
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Very nice.
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