New flames pattern welded damascus pics...

gollum

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continued from this thread ...some nice pics of my latest blades etc...

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hmmm ... whats in here? .....
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looks shiney ... my precious :p











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these pics aren't the best ... it is hard to capture knives ...
unless you use a lightbox and quality camera ...
still I hope you get the general idea...

as I said in my previous thread ...
using 1075 and 15n20 stock to produce this pattern welded damascus
created by many twists and folds ... many hours work













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the guard takes several extra processes to include the textured finish
it has mokume up front with nickel silver and bronze and fibre spacers
they lead to the Australian River Red Gum Burl handle






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checkered butt for thumb grip (and looks)...spot the missing check..
I will re-do it




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this pic doesn't really capture the beautiful flames of the forged to shape blade ...
but it really looks better when its in your hand as the light collects all the facets of the patterns...

for those who may wish to know the blade was hand rubbed for most of a day,on a super flat granite slab,
from 600 grit through to 2500 grit and then crocus paper and final light buff...
this gives it a real flashing type of effect due to being so mirror like on the bevels.
So sharp the hairs on my arm jumped off before the edge came near it .. heh heh heh




Thanks for looking ... comments welcome

cheers Jason


 
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Re: Pattern welded damascus knives and other pics...

oh I did say blades

so here is a couple of other recently finished blades aswell

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folder ...

liner lock
Titanium liners
fossil mammoth bark ivory slabs
mokume bolsters
stainless damascus twist pattern clip blade
torx construction

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super miniature stainless damasteel toothpick sharpener!:tinfoil:

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enjoy the pics cheers Jason





 

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as soon as i saw the handle in the 2nd pic voice in my head said Burl! hah. good guess..

very nice knives again.

the psyderco looking custom folder is cool.. not a fan of bone. but the mokume looks funky.

toothpick made me think..
if you have any extra bits and pieces left over of all that damascus steel you have forged.

any thoughts of making small "jewlery" out of them.. something like coin sized or look alike pendant would be cool. or maybe heart shaped or something.. or my favorite: arrowhead.

(i probably will make few pendants of the burl wood i have, as xmas presents to the female friends/family. it has that nice detail even in smaller sized piece)
 

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I do make little things out of offcuts

never throw any damascus away

I make skull beads
micro knives
beads keyfobs
rings

cheers Jason
 

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gorgeous. i should send this link to my mate in australia. my biggest problem is, i want to visit him someday and i do not want his wife to kill me :whistle::whistle::whistle:

lovely knives :)
 

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First I want to say those are beautiful blades. This is a little off subject, but you seem to have a good enough camera. It appears you are using a direct flash, try putting a tissue over the flash to diffuse it. This will reduce the glare. There are other ways of taking this shot, but this will help. Thanks for letting me put in my 2 cents.
 

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thanks USA Celt

a handy tip cheers
I was a little busy that day and just wanted to get a pic up for ppl

I'll put some better pics up later
 

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oal is 16.18mm = 0.636"
blade length 10.05mm = 0.395"

this makes it amazingly small

there are other pics of my other micro knives here on cpf with objects giving scale
e.g. matchheads etc...

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cheers Jason
 

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this is a bit old but i have it linked in my sig so
I am updating with a few newer items

cheers for looking

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