[hso]

A friend of mine has been forging for 6 months and just sold this dirk. Strike that. 4 months! He's been at it only 4 months

[hso]

I hate him

[Valkman]

Oh man that's nice, even for a experienced maker!

[hso]

He forged it with hand tools in a coal forge he built himself! He used a gas forge he built to do all the heat treat. It's oil edge quenched and tough as the dickens. The blue is heat blue.

[Soap]

That's awesome for being new to the game! I love the runes...

[El Tejon]

If that's his first knife, by his 100th he will have the market cornered!:eek:

[hso]

If you guys knew him you'd "hate" him the way I do.

Former SF, combat pistol instructor (he's the guy I used to assist in the pistol I, II, III, IV classes), martial arts instructor, has a great wife and cute kid, working on PhD in history, makes jewlery and now forges knives.

I helped a little getting him set up, but he's done 99.995% of it on his own. Oh yeah, he made the sheath.

Hate him, hate him, hate him! (where's the green with envy smilie???)

We should expect to see great things from Rob.

[fisherman66]

you're right HSO; he makes me sick (green).

Amazing work. I wish I had that talent.

[Dave Markowitz]

Wow! Very nice.

[hso]

El T, That's his 3rd knife!

No joke, his third freakn' knife.

I played with #1 and 2 today and handled #4 in it's rough forged form.

Yep, hatehim.;)

[CT Yankee]

WOW! From my limited 'smithing experience, that is one fine piece of work especially seeing how my first (and sadly, only, for now) knife came out. I think we all hate your friend, now! ;)

Slightly off-topic, but did he use a pattern for the forge? If so, it would be great if you could post that, too.

[hso]

He built the coal forge in the University of Tennessee Fine Arts Department. I'll ask where he got the pattern.

[El Tejon]

3d knife? hso, I think you have a "Natural"!:uhoh: :)

[hso]

Yep

I've got a good sized (grapefruit +) nickel/iron meteorite that looks like it's got good Widmanstatten pattern. I think I'll have him use some of it for the guard and pommel on a Viking dagger. Perhaps a nice black star saphire cab set in the middle of the pommel.;) sumpin like this http://www.nootrope.net/blade/3.jpg

[doc jake]

The problem is a knife should be a tool, those are work,s of art. I would be scared to handle those in case i damaged them.

[hso]

doc jake,

If the knife won't stand up to being used it's just a knife-shaped sculpture.

'Course that don't mean I'm going to grab the ivory handled damacus dagger with the silver fittings to work with, but I could.

[CT Yankee]

Not to be a nag or anything, but did you get any info on the forge pattern?

[KriegHund]

Cooooool

[TwoGun]

Great looking piece of work. I would have perfered some type of hilt to keep you hand from slipping down the blade in certain situations but the workmanship looks exceptional.

Post more pics of other works when they are available please!