Anyone else into forge work?

stimpsonjcat · October 17, 2018, 12:11am

My other hobby besides shooting and gunsmithing is forge work.

I make knives…

…other weapons…

…other stuff…

Robert · October 17, 2018, 12:13am

Gorgeous!

Giantspeed · October 17, 2018, 12:37am

Wow beautiful blade

Giantspeed · October 17, 2018, 12:50am

Do you forge Damascus ?

SAK · October 17, 2018, 12:52am

Your Damascus is awesome, the cross looks like it has a lot of layers, that Bowie what size file was used, how big is the Bowie knife.

stimpsonjcat · October 17, 2018, 12:54am

Bowie was a standard horse rasp. Blade ended up at 12", I don’t remember the overall length.

stimpsonjcat · October 17, 2018, 12:55am

Yes, I forge my own pattern-welded steel.

Robert · October 17, 2018, 12:59am

Serious?

Wow!

Giantspeed · October 17, 2018, 12:59am

Beautiful work
I admire craftsmenship

stimpsonjcat · October 17, 2018, 1:06am

I have a YT vid on the process, but I don’t see an icon for videos…is it legit to post YT vids here in the forums or are those restricted to channel owners?

sry…I R n00b here.

Giantspeed · October 17, 2018, 1:09am

This would be a nice post

Robert · October 17, 2018, 1:19am

YT is fine to post

LonewolfMcQuade · October 17, 2018, 2:33am

@stimpsonjcat beautiful work!!

EQuinn · October 17, 2018, 3:03am

Do you have a channel on YT?

srdiver · October 17, 2018, 6:33am

Hell with YT either here on the community channel or get his own Full30 channel

Mosinvirus · October 17, 2018, 9:33am

@stimpsonjcat Hey Bruce. Thank you for starting this thread. And please keep posting your forging projects.

I used to make pretty nice knives when I was a teenager , but always by material removal. And the whole aspect of forging just fascinates me. Damascus even more so.

I also used to dabble in jewelry and made this little cross out of gold wire… you could make it out of iron (larger of course) if you’d like. I think it would look super cool as a forged piece.

Let me make it real quick out of annealed iron wire and take a pic. I think I remember the design.

Edit:
Here it is. Obviously I used to hammer this flat for jewelry. Again, this was super quick. That is why the loops are not even, and this wire is obviously less soft that a much thinner gold wire, but it should give you the idea. The cutoff points are at the bottom. You should be able to see them.

stimpsonjcat · October 17, 2018, 2:22pm

Cool! What’s the scale?

stimpsonjcat · October 17, 2018, 2:24pm

I think this should link to the first vid in the playlist for the rasp Bowie…

tl/dw: just give me short version https://youtu.be/DXl5j5XLs-w

Mosinvirus · October 17, 2018, 5:36pm

It is about 3" tall/long

RogueGunnWorks · October 18, 2018, 1:51pm

Awesome!