A THR knife PICTURE thread?!?!

[whetrock]

Here's one of my favorite traditional folders. The Buck 301.

 

[Yo Mama]

 

[Brin]

cable knife.

Here is one that is different.I made this one out of logging cable.

 

[Yo Mama]

^ That's just sick! I've seen railroad ties and files, but never a cable. How does the edge hold up? Did you have to heat treat? Details please on how you made it?

 

[Brin]

cable knife.

Yo mama, Logging cable is basally 1080 steel and it can be forged welded together to make knives or a Katana. Heat treating is easy, all you have to do is heat to non-magnetic then quench in a warm oil and then temper at 350 to 400 Fahrenheit. Here is a link to a tutorial. http://forums.dfoggknives.com/index.php?showtopic=7696&hl=
If you read post #70 that is how I process cable.

 

[JShirley]

Wire rope?

 

[Brin]

cable knife.

Yes wire rope.

 

[JShirley]

I tried to buy a few tons. Of course, I had a network problem (this was in Afghanistan), and got overbid at the last minute.

 

[91/30]

My $.02

 

[Sam Cade]

Many a can of beans has been opened by this Fällkniven.

It has been a thoroughly decent knife, without serious faults other than being too thick, too expensive and the grip being too dang small.

 

[blueskyjaunte]

Here's my Cowboy Bowie by Joe Mandt. It's 300 layer random Damascus of 1080 and 15N20 forged into over an 8+" blade.

The Super Blackhawk in .44mag is just there for show.

 

[91/30]

blueskyjaunte THAT is a beautiful knife. Where can one acquire such a piece artwork?

 

[hso]

As said Joe Mandt made it. You can contact him at [email protected] .

You can also look at similar work by members Gary Wheeler, Kim Breed, Stephen Fowler, ...

 

[blueskyjaunte]

Hey, thanks! Joe Mandt is a bladesmith living in Florida. I believe he's an American Bladesmith Society apprentice smith.

His website doesn't get updated a lot...

http://www.jmforge.com/Welcome.html

(Edit) Oops, HSO beat me to it.

 

[91/30]

Thanks.

 

[AStone]

Has anyone else but me noticed that there's a lot of fine blades around here?

 

[Brin]

Damascus knife.

Blueskyjaunte, Beautiful Damascus knife. Most people don’t realize it took 40 to 50 hours to make that blade and that’s not counting the sheath .

 

[Brin]

A little different.

Here is another one of my knifes that is a little different, this knife is a three layer steel sandwich. The left and right sides are cable Damascus. The center and cutting edge is 8670m, and the handle is elk antler.

 

[KingTiger]

Dalton Autos

A couple from my Dalton auto collection. These are my most utilized & EDC knives.

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[gak]

A local knifemaker named Paul Savage just finished this one up for me. W2 steel and Hawaiian Koa wood:

 

[EmGeeGeorge]

Here is one that is different.I made this one out of logging cable.

I work on a dredging ship, and we replace 120' lengths of 1" and 1.5" thick steel cables all the time... maybe next time I'll get the torch and cut 16" lengths out to get some bowies made.

 

[Rollis R. Karvellis]

Gak, that is just a beautiful piece of steel.

 

[Sam Cade]

I work on a dredging ship.

Hunh. That is pretty cool.

 

[Brin]

EmGeeGeorge, 16” of 1.5”cable is tuff stuff to forge It can be done by hand but will be a real work out .
Here are two knifes made out of logging cable. What looks like file work on the back of these blades is cable that I deliberately did not forge weld together.

 

[Yo Mama]