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Mocataugen (crooked knife) build along starts NOW!
Handforged:
--- Quote from: DC on April 03, 2020, 05:32:00 pm ---Can you put a piece of paper or something under them when you take pictures? They kind of disappear into the anvil :D
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HA!, I can try that.
Handforged:
Large Mocataugen is being fitted for it's osage handle. With the tang burned into to shape, shaping the handle is so much easier. Traditionally crooked knives are meant to be used like a draw knife. With the blade pulled towards your body. Having a reverse grip, most of the traditional styles have a backwards swell in the handle as well as a recessed body and a thumb rest for leverage. I did all of this rough shaping on the belt grinder. I'll then take it down with sandpaper and while the blade is annealed drill the holed for the pins. There is no rhyme or reason to the shape of these. It's more like a feel good comfortable shape. Sand until you get there, then finish sand and oil.
Hawkdancer:
Nice work!
Hawkdancer
mullet:
I'm watching but working on other projects right now. Plan on cutting some tines off of a large, very old pitchfork today.
dylanholderman:
i'll play along.
here's a couple rusty files i pulled out, cant get out of the house to do any forge work so i'm just normalizing them so that i can do stock removal.
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