a new peice on the drawing board

[.44 RF Express]

a 12.4" bowie in sleipner steel
0,2" thick roughly 7,1" blade



keep safe

[.44 RF Express]

here is a pic on how the work is coming along

[MrWolf]

That looks really nice. Keep saying someday but it probably won't happen. Nice job.
Ron

[.44 RF Express]

I bit closer to finished knife.
Now for som shaping

[MrWolf]

Looking real good.

[farmbif]

very nice.
somewhere ive got a whole bunch of that tool steel that you say you're using. and last time I saw it the pieces were just about the right size for making blades. any average Joe can harden it with a furnace or torch and bucket of oil. gonna have to figure where I put that stuff.
not like that ats-34 that has to be done by an expert

[.44 RF Express]

very nice.
somewhere ive got a whole bunch of that tool steel that you say you're using. and last time I saw it the pieces were just about the right size for making blades. any average Joe can harden it with a furnace or torch and bucket of oil. gonna have to figure where I put that stuff.
not like that ats-34 that has to be done by an expert

heattreating temperature is 1886F for Sleipner
annealing att 1000F 3 cycles @ 2hrs each for a hardness of 62 HRC

[M-Tecs]

here is a pic on how the work is coming along

Very nice. I've been able to do some very nice knives myself as long as I don't have a recurve or kukri style. Pics of your grinders would be helpful.

[.44 RF Express]

A little more done, hopefully i'll get time to finish it during the weekend.
But i think it looks very interessting.

M-tecs i'll try to remember to take a pic of by grinder