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View Poll Results: Keep or scrap? | |||
Keep | 16 | 100.00% | |
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Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll |
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Should I bother?
Good day,
Getting into the shop intermittently now that the weather is fairly decent. Going through the selves and planning projects. Have a stack of ones that are in various stages of completion/ Next to that is my stack of disappointments. Ones that bend, broke or ones I was otherwise unhappy with. Out of the last category I have two. One is the first is a push dagger and the second is a first attempt at a customer designed sgain. Here is the push dagger - The sgain. I wasn't happy with how the filework was going.but it is made up of some pricey (for me) damascus - Any maker will tell you that they are their own worsest critic. I am curious what you guys think should I bother finishing these or just scrap them so they don't make me question them again? Jim __________________ I cook with a flair for the dramatic, and depraved indifference to calories |
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Finish the dagger! That'd be sweet with an engraved/carved bone handle
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Id keep them, it never hurts to try something new with one you do not care about.
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I don't see the problem. The dagger might have a questionable HT but that almost doesn't matter with such a small knife that isn't meant to do much cutting anyway. Can't see the damascus blade on the other knife but the file work looks OK, not what you intended maybe, but still OK.
Unless the knife is broken in some way, serious broken like cracked or warped into a horseshoe, always finish the knife. That's how you learn to correct those faults that can be corrected and how to dress up and hide the ones that can't. And, when it's done, you have a knife someone is going to like warts and all .... |
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Make 'em work,Drac.Some of my best designs have come from redoing a mistake...when you can turn a foul-up into a feature,it's educational!
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If all that's worrying you about that push dagger is a questionable heat treatment or overheating while grinding, I can't tell which, you can always repeat the heat treatment. If you think that you have over tempered the blade in grinding I would test the edge before going to repeating the hardening and tempering. It could just be a some blueish oxides built up on the surface. If the edge is over tempered then repeating the heat treatment is not that big a deal. I've done it more than once and I've watched that I didn't overheat the steel and had no problems with warping even with a fine edge on the blade. I general, I really don't like push daggers but the work on that one looks good.
On the second one, yes you are still having a little problem with the pattern of the thorn and vine pattern. Go ahead a finish it even if it's just for the practice. Look at it this way. If it's too far off for you to want to sell the blade then it doesn't make any difference if you screw up on cutting the rest of the thorns but it will supply you with good practice. Doug __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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Thanks.
I give them a try. I did do another one of the sgain that worked out. I had set this one aside and got some more damascus in and did another one. Jim __________________ I cook with a flair for the dramatic, and depraved indifference to calories |
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Try something really wild with them...finish 'em and give 'em to a friend , unmarked with full disclosure.
__________________ Dennis "..good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from poor judgement.." -Gary McMahan, a cowboy poet and good dancer. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...24112090995576 |
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I think you should scrap them--and send them to me. . I hope my first blade turns out half as good.
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Keep em both..........those really arent mistakes........there learning points..........learn to cover your oops..........
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Knives in progress are just work that is changed as you go. Do finish the push dagger, it looks fine to me.
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Hi Jim,
Finish them out. They aren't all that bad from what I can see, at least nothing a little spit and polish won't fix. By the way guys, here is one of Jim's push daggers from a few years back (I still have this one Jim!) Nathan |
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