Got into the shop Monday and actually got some stuff done!
Cleaned up some junk.
Got a bench set up for doing sanding and handles.
Took my anvil off the stand and put it in the car to take to work. (Milled the face and foot and gave it a coat of paint.)
Ripped the refractory out of the forge and relined it.
Test fired and ended up putting a billet in to make sure it was working properly.
Forge welded and started to draw out said billet.
And got a few handles finished and one more glued on to be ready for shaping.
I actually have the last one I posted and the one here with the walnut handle sold. Which is good because I need to make a belt order haha. Gotta find a home for the purple one and order some more steel.
The billet I'm working on now is sort of a san mai. A san mai is 3 layers. Often a hard core with softer outsides. This one is an 80crv2 core but the outer is some low layer Damascus that I had left. So if it works out it should give some interesting pattern. Hopefully that will be soon. Still need to figure out what blade shape I'm going to do with it.
Cleaned up some junk.
Got a bench set up for doing sanding and handles.
Took my anvil off the stand and put it in the car to take to work. (Milled the face and foot and gave it a coat of paint.)
Ripped the refractory out of the forge and relined it.
Test fired and ended up putting a billet in to make sure it was working properly.
Forge welded and started to draw out said billet.
And got a few handles finished and one more glued on to be ready for shaping.
I actually have the last one I posted and the one here with the walnut handle sold. Which is good because I need to make a belt order haha. Gotta find a home for the purple one and order some more steel.
The billet I'm working on now is sort of a san mai. A san mai is 3 layers. Often a hard core with softer outsides. This one is an 80crv2 core but the outer is some low layer Damascus that I had left. So if it works out it should give some interesting pattern. Hopefully that will be soon. Still need to figure out what blade shape I'm going to do with it.
