Blade No 2

[Adam Savage]

Gave up with the video part of this blade, seeing as it's only mild steel (99.99% sure anyway) and won't keep an edge. I did, however, try to use an old case hardening technique I found on t'interweb. Wrapping the blade in leather, coating the lot in clay to seal it, then heat for 15 minutes so the leather is consumed. Didn't have too much clay laying about, but my garden is clay rich, so used a load of clay like earth instead . This is what she looked like, after the firing, quenching and then cleaned up a little (last shot)...







Not sure it did any good at all, but finished her off anyway.

Ready to take the scales...





Epoxy setting...



And the finished kinfe...





With my first attempt at file work...



And next to her older sister...

[CanadianMike]

Awesome number two! Even if mild steel, you've learned quite a few lessons, which is what it's all about. Now go for a third, fourth, fifth, etc. And mild steel for practice, much better to make your mistakes on that than more expensive tool steel.

[Adam Savage]

Thanks Mike. There will be many more, I'm sure lol.

Was going to ask, I have come across EN19 steel and was wondering if that would be any good for knife making? It's meant to have high wear resistance, but I'm not sure if it's a medium carbon or high carbon.