First Knife

Ok so here is my first knife, I spent like 5 hours on it today. And I am pretty satisfied with it too.

Here it is when I started this morning.

And here it is after about 3 hours later. No file work or sanding, all hammer. 

Obviously I am not finished, tomorrow I will narrow the width of the blade to about 3/4" and then work on the bevels. I will post when I complete those task. Thanks. 

First Heat!

So my fourth layer of "satanite" is on and I am about to go to Harbor Freight Tool store. I am trying to find something that will hold the torch in place while heating the forge. I plan on taking pictures and keep you updated on how it is going. Later.

My first forge!

Hey everybody, so I started to build my paint can forge. It is just a paint can with some ceramic insulation wool coating the inside of the can. I coated the wool with a refractory paste called "satanite". It is almost like clay. Here are pictures of the forge so far.

Ok, so this is the paint can coated with the insulation I used called "Insowool". I used about 2 ft of it.













This is the forge with the second coat of "satanite". All I used for the the applicator was a small toothbrush.













Right now I have applied my third coat of "satanite" and it is in front of my fan drying. Tomorrow I plan on doing my "first heat" and that is a pretty self explanatory phrase. We will see how that goes, oh and tomorrow I plan on doing an overview of all the tools I have so far. And also an overview on the tools I need. Well thanks everyone for reading this post. Until next time!

My first blog!

Ok, this is my first blog. Forgive my if I seem dull and boring to begin with. This is the first time I have ever "blogged" before. So anyway I as I said in my info about myself. This blog is going to be about me and my journey to become a bladesmith. So here we go!