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Main Boards => Hunting Knives and Crafters => Topic started by: Bobby Urban on April 21, 2011, 07:55:00 AM

Title: Finished serving set
Post by: Bobby Urban on April 21, 2011, 07:55:00 AM

I really like the serving set I finished for a friend.  I like making kitchen tools because I feel they get used more.  A good hunter/belt knife gets used 3-5 times a year if you are fortunate enough to score a lot of deer - but a good kitchen knife can be used every day.  The other two are a small pearing knife and DP hunter.  The pearing knife is my first of this design and just kind of came to me as I was drawing the blade on a piece of steel I had just flattened with the power hammer.  Thank you to another trad ganger for a nice little piece of padauk sent to me for the fork handle!!
 (http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/bushbow/Forknknifesetdone.jpg)
 (http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/bushbow/ForknknifeD2.jpg)
 (http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/bushbow/Forknspine.jpg)
 (http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/bushbow/PearingnHunter.jpg)
 (http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/bushbow/pearinginhand.jpg)
Again - my photography needs much improvement but so does my knife building skills so it fits for now.  I need to take more photos outside to eliminate the flash burn

Title: Re: Finished serving set
Post by: DANA HOLMAN on April 21, 2011, 08:10:00 AM

Nice set, the pearing knife looks like a good design
dana

Title: Re: Finished serving set
Post by: charlie phillips on April 21, 2011, 08:55:00 AM

LOOKS GOOD. How thick is the steel you'r using.


    TXCP.

Title: Re: Finished serving set
Post by: Bobby Urban on April 21, 2011, 02:51:00 PM

Thanks guys

I am forging them from a Ford truck coil spring so after a few trips through the power hammer to get them close I us my belt sander to get them to shape.  The slicer is about 1/16th at the handle and the pearing knife will go thinner.  Thinner is better in the kitchen knife catagory but I get scared when I get them too thin that they will warp(or worse yet) crack during heat treat.  We will see - have to take a little risk to get what I want out of the knife.

Title: Re: Finished serving set
Post by: Steve Nuckels on April 22, 2011, 11:25:00 PM

Nice work Bushbow!

Steve
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Potomac Forge

AKA Tillerboy

Title: Re: Finished serving set
Post by: MTArrowLauncher on May 05, 2011, 12:01:00 AM

Those are AWESOME. Great job


Fin

Title: Re: Finished serving set
Post by: BrownA5 on May 23, 2011, 10:30:00 PM

What a neat set.  Thanks for sharing!