Finished my knife

[MSW]

great looking knife!

 

[Rick Callison]

Great job, I like it!

 

[Sandhiler]

I wanted to reply to Wayne1967 but replied to Horner instead. Really a great job. I'd like some lessons on forging. I'd like a look at the real thing sometime if that would be OK.

 

[wayne1967]

Thank you for the compliment but see if you can go to an event with a real blacksmith with an anvil, forge and all the equip. I use a makeshift forge with a hairdryer for a bellows and a vice flat for my anvil. I am a beginner. I see you are from missouri. Try to make it to Fort De Chartres right across the river in June. There is also a blacksmith supply store in St. Charles if you are near there. There are probably more smith attended events in Missouri also if anyone wants to add?

 

[rabjr]

Very nice! :thumbsup:

 

[LRB]

Great work!! The only suggestion I would give is to taper the tang on the next one. Nearly all tangs were tapered in 18th c., and early 19th c., but still, very nice work, and a very nice knife.
:thumbsup:

 

[wayne1967]

Sorry for the late reply. I've been kinda out of pocket. Wick I guess you mean the tang thickness was tapered?

 

[LRB]

Nearly all tangs were tapered in thickness due mainly to economics, but with such a nice knife as that, it is but a very minor point. :thumbsup:

 

[wayne1967]

Thanks. Like I said I am still learning. Looks like a tapered tang would be harder to handle fit trying to angle the taper to match up.

 

[LRB]

They can be.