It's not all roses

[jindydiver]

Sometimes using recycled steel and doing your own heat treating can add up to wasted workshop time :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/heattreatdisaster.jpg

The rest turned out okay though :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/earlyjunebatch.jpg

And i have another one for myself in the oven right now. It had a bend in it and so I had to do it's heat treatment all over again

[Grunter]

I hope you havea couple of goodies going on the Group hunt Jindy!!!! Love to see afew of them in the flesh & maybe lighten up your load for the trip home after the hunt.

[jindydiver]

Mate, I am trying to get a bunch finished so I can do just that :)

While I had the oven on today to temper the troublesome blade I decided that I should get some extra use out of heating it up :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/temperingbyproduct.jpg

[Friar Tuck]

Where exactly do you live Jindy - 1 Sugar and white for my coffee :-)

[XTfreak]

I hope you havea couple of goodies going on the Group hunt Jindy!!!! Love to see afew of them in the flesh & maybe lighten up your load for the trip home after the hunt.
I'am hoping for the same thing:D
Bill

[jindydiver]

I just went out and cleaned up my blades (and destruction tested the cracked one) and now it is time to relax with a triple-choc biscuit and a cup of plunger coffee :)


I am pretty happy with my latest batch of steel. I stuck the cracked blade in between two pieces of wood and clamped it in the vice and snapped the tip off. It took a good deal of force to get it to snap and the blade had to go a good 15 degrees first. I moved the blocks up to the crack and give it a go and I had to stick a huge shifter onto the handle to get the leverage to snap it :)

[Piggy]

Mate you had me in stiches with the knife and the cookies well done.

Cheers


Paul

[dazza]

very good,the blades should come up all right too..

[Sparra]

In that top knife Mick,where is the crack??? Maybe you can also bring the recipe up the cape with you and make us some for morning tea...

[jindydiver]

This is the crack
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/heattreatdisaster2.jpg

And these are the blades that worked out, all cleaned up and ready for handles
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/earlyjunebatch2.jpg

The one I am holding is for a guy in the USA I am swapping a knife with. I just have to decide what materials I will use for the handles now :)

[Grunter]

Bloody nice work Jindy, like the looks on the one below the one you are holding. Would look real nice with a stag or timber handle. I am not that fussy but either way you think would suit for me.

[jamie]

Nice stuff Jindy,

I love the line of your grinds.

Can you post a pic of the bottom knife when finished. I could be interested.

[jindydiver]

A couple of pics from my destruction testing :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/heattreatdisaster4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/heattreatdisaster3.jpg

[granty]

hehe nice jindy