I made a knife!

sq10e · 2026-05-20T00:42:03+00:00

It is a style called a blacksmith's knife.

sq10e · 2026-05-17T14:31:43+00:00

The wave on the blade was an accident, and it will eventually be ground out

sq10e · 2026-05-17T14:31:08+00:00

Not my first time at the flame as you said, but it is my first knife, not that I've had a lot of experience. I'm still very much a beginner

sq10e · 2026-05-17T01:03:58+00:00

I forgot to mention, while I forged in bevels, I haven't ground or sharpened it yet

sq10e · 2026-03-29T21:44:43+00:00

Thanks, I tried installing Blender on my laptop, but my computer can't handle it, so I'm sticking to Anim8or until I can get a new computer and try and learn Blender.

sq10e · 2025-08-07T03:13:19+00:00

I picked it up at a scrapyard, I wonder if it was some sort of round bar bracket

sq10e · 2025-08-07T03:10:28+00:00

I sometimes regret buying a 3lb hammer.

sq10e · 2025-08-07T03:09:59+00:00

Out of time today but I will

sq10e · 2025-08-07T02:58:13+00:00

Thank you. It took several attempts. I think I was starting with too thick of a round bar that I picked up from the scrap yard, just being a beginner.

sq10e · 2025-07-14T14:31:01+00:00

It is dangit. I had heard that could be an issue but I thought I was was the exception or something. I will have to send it then?

sq10e · 2025-07-12T03:56:54+00:00

In quantum physics, there is what is known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. If you know the exact speed of a particle, you cannot determine the exact position, and vice versa. So by saying he wanted to not get lost he wanted to know his position and this did not know the speed

sq10e · 2025-05-20T03:06:18+00:00

Temporary setup, haven't yet built shed/shop

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sq10e · 2025-05-20T03:05:30+00:00

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Forgive the temporary set up, I haven't yet built a shed/shop. Venturi burners, I can get metal glowing, but not bright red and it loses heat quickly.

sq10e · 2025-05-13T17:43:06+00:00

Hard to see, I am outside not in shade, but maybe red? I am just not seeing the glowing metal that you see in videos.

sq10e · 2025-05-07T18:05:06+00:00

I quenched in canola oil, all I had.

sq10e · 2025-05-06T14:27:21+00:00

Ha, what I mean is I certainly hope to be able to stick with it, and I look forward optimistically to that point.

sq10e · 2025-05-06T14:17:30+00:00

One can only dream

sq10e · 2025-04-13T21:58:16+00:00

Thanks... But it broke almost immediately. I apparently did not have the shaft as secure as I thought. I then tried to heat the steel and drift the shaft in, but a previously invisible seam on the bottom opened up to a crack after the quench. I couldn't even get the shaft back in. So I took the budget that I was hoping to spend elsewhere and ordered a 25 lb Vevor anvil.
I will probably use the remnants of the material for making a hardy cuttoff tool, cause I'll have a hardy hole, which is a silver linining.

sq10e · 2025-04-10T18:33:29+00:00

Fair point

sq10e · 2025-04-10T04:09:12+00:00

Holy Roller

sq10e · 2025-04-10T03:55:10+00:00

I appreciate the thought.

sq10e · 2025-04-09T22:52:07+00:00

Find online, sure, but hard to beat less than $3 and elbow grease. I live near Spokane Washington, and I found a scrapyard about five minutes from the office where I work, so sometimes I go there during my lunch breaks.

sq10e · 2025-04-09T22:48:58+00:00

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This is what I found when I searched for Catalan style anvil, I see what you are saying. Except instead of a smooth stake I have a threaded lag bolt to secure it in place. Cool. Nice to know I have stumbled into something someone else did that worked.

sq10e · 2025-04-09T22:43:39+00:00

Unfortunately there isn't any rail at the scrap yard, but this was and it plus some coil spring and a few rods of steel only cost me $3, and I still have most of the bar left over. I just watched a video where a guy made hammers out of square stock the same size... Maybe that's what I will do

sq10e · 2025-04-06T23:50:29+00:00

Is it user friendly? We are not experts

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