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It's nice to see someone working with 0-1 . . . seems like everything's ATS-34 nowadays. 0-1 was good enough for Cooper . . . . (But then, I just got my custom Ti knife in the mail yesterday, so my opinion is a bit suspect.)
The scales of the top two on the left side look very nice. I'd sure like to see larger photos of them, as well as the small one on the bottom of the left row.
How long have you been at it, Razor? Do you have larger photos to post?
Looks like pretty work to me. I'm a fan of O-1 as well, mostly because it is so easy to work with. On the larger knife, why is the blade cross section thinned out in that area near the handle?
As daniel has pointed out Tom Brown. The larger knife and the smaller knife are his design in which I have tried to follow. The ones with the exotic grips are my design. The portion of the blade in which is thined out on the large knife is designed to be used as a draw knife. My brother talked me into making that paticular knife cause he is going to attend tracker school. I have been making knives on and off only for about four years, kind of a hobby. Forgive me, I do not have larger pics. for I do not own a digital camera and the ones you are seeing were taken with a camera-phone.
Pretty impressive stuff, Nick. Send me one of those folders and I'll give you a long-term test report . Seriously, I'd be interested in a folder if you 'go commercial' with your work.
I have not yet made any folding knives.... sorry. I am pretty happy with what one can buy off of the shelf with a folder. Besides we sell folding knives where I work so I get to basically take what I want. The o-1 material when heat treated does a fantastic job of holding a edge. My blades are differently hardened so the blades are very strong.
I have been using each of the knives made my Razor 10 and I have been beating the hell out of them. Each shows no sign of wear. Yesterday I spent a few hours making 2-fireboards, a thunder head and an awesome spindal. When I was done the tracker style knife was still razor sharp. It was really cool.
I have also taken some larger pictures of the knives so everyone can get a better look at them.
I have made and sold about 200 knives in the past and I used mostly 0-1 at Rc57-59.
I think that such a blade is really all that anyone needs.
I hold D-2 in high esteem also but the average Joe has difficulty sharpening a D-2 blade.
Your Knives look great, keep up the good work.
Respectfully Zeke
c yeager, you are correct they are stock removal blades. I start out by cutting out the blank on a birdgeport tracermill. Then I use a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder with a sanding pad and rough in the angle then I move to a 8 inch bench grinder to hollow grind the blade. I finish with a 90 degree air sander with scotch brite pads to blend all of the surfaces. From start to finish grind it takes about a hour and a half on the medium and small blades. On the larger one it takes about two and a half hours. Then they need to be roughed in, on the edge, and heat treated. Then I make the handles. The handles are first saw cut to maximize material the cleaned up on a router table with a straight cutting bit. Then shaped by means of a 10 inch disc sander and finished sanded by hand. I try not to think about exactly how much time I have in each one.... I try and price them to sell. Cause I know I would never get what I think, they are really worth. I'm not really doing it for the cash, I just enjoy it.
NICE work Razor ... that first pic posted by Pyriel is great - some very fiddly fretting on the back of that one.
I only ever made one knife - using a leaf spring from a car rear suspension! It turned out quite well and was given away - no pic darn it. If I were a younger man I could well see myself getting into it big time.
Thanks, P95, Pyriel is my brother. He, unlike myself is pretty good at computers and technical things. SO I asked him to post some better pics of the knives I made for him.
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