souvenir knife

Today has tried to forge a souvenir knife from a railway crutch.
On mine it has turned out.
The idea belongs not to me(Has borrowed on what that of the American blacksmithing sites:cool:)

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Thats a real cool looking knife! what do you do? warm it red hot, give it a twist, then mash down the front to make the blade?

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Originally Posted by charger891

Thats a real cool looking knife! what do you do? warm it red hot, give it a twist, then mash down the front to make the blade?

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It is difficult to me to describe process(unfortunately I do not know English language:() but if you very interesting, that me easier tomorrow to make one more knife and to photograph manufacturing process:)

I am interested every thing you build is very cool.

I would love to learn your skills! Very nice work

My friends! As well as promised today has made one more knife.
Manufacturing process in pictures:)

We take a crutch and it is heated up in a gas forge
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By means of a Blacksmith power hammer we do notches on the handle of a knife from all four parties
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Further we clamp (warm) product in a vice and by means of a special plug we twist the future handle of a knife
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After that we heat up a product and we flatten the handle
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After that I began to experiment and have made the same actions (only at twisting I have changed a direction of torsion)
The result will be visible on a ready knife:)
Further we flatten out an blade till the necessary thickness
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We mark a contour of an blade, superfluous it is cut off
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As a result the souvenir knife is received
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That is very cool. Do you sell these and what is the price to ship to USA zip 32656?

That is some very cool, primitive shit. That skill would come in real handy after the apocalypse.

I wanted to put the phrase railroad or rail spike into this thread, so it can be found during a search. (these are not called crutches here.) Here is a link to another nice spike knife:

http://bronksknifeworks.com/railroad-spike.htm

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Originally Posted by 67cudafb

That is very cool. Do you sell these and what is the price to ship to USA zip 32656?

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You it is serious? I do not know what to answer. I have simply seen where that on the Internet someone has made a knife from iron-road of a crutch and it became interesting to me. Yesterday I have made the first knife, today have made to photograph process only.(I think if to show it to the present smiths that they will die laughing)
In essence, if you lived more close I would give to you free of charge

did you use electrolysis to get the rust off?

One of the more critical areas of a knife is its edge - I am sure the mild steel on this does not hold an edge very well.

Have you tried to fold in layers of harder steel into the edge so you can have something which holds its sharpness? (very much like the Japanese).

The shop you are working in looks very old - what is its history?

And thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

Mike

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Originally Posted by donor76

You it is serious? I do not know what to answer. I have simply seen where that on the Internet someone has made a knife from iron-road of a crutch and it became interesting to me. Yesterday I have made the first knife, today have made to photograph process only.(I think if to show it to the present smiths that they will die laughing)
In essence, if you lived more close I would give to you free of charge

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I have always loved trains so yes I am serious I would be happy to pay shipping cost.

I am sure he probably uses some kind of oil quench to harden the blade.

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Originally Posted by Mike J

One of the more critical areas of a knife is its edge - I am sure the mild steel on this does not hold an edge very well.

Have you tried to fold in layers of harder steel into the edge so you can have something which holds its sharpness? (very much like the Japanese).......



And thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

Mike

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Mike, as I wrote earlier it is a souvenir knife (decorative) I didn't pursue the aim to make real knife which at desire was possible to cut гвозди. As to Damask steel I know in the theory a little, but I also know that it is very difficult process:)

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Originally Posted by Joe from NY

I am sure he probably uses some kind of oil quench to harden the blade.

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Joe,I have tried to temper for the sake of interest an edge in oil that it has not turned out (a crutch is made of very soft steel):)

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Originally Posted by 67cudafb

I have always loved trains so yes I am serious I would be happy to pay shipping cost.

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I live in very fine country, and during too time in very poor stat
I can't receive 1,5 months the рр256 because of not clear ####ing customs rules(:mad:чтоб им всем хуем кислым подавится,суки:mad:)At present I search for ways of my import рр256 contraband through Finland, (I do not want to pay the tax to the state which only and knows what to gather fair hard workers, I will better pay money, to smugglers)
I will solve mine the problems,then I will try to learn the information for you;)

The free market in action! Send the smugglers back with Vodka!