Wow, now that is some craftsmanship. You are very lucky to be able to express yourself in the beauty and usefullness of a blade, especially the pattern welding.

   But anyway, like he said, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit [nevermind that they are only for firearms] is against the law. Heck, in north las vegas if you have a blade longer than an inch it's illegal. Here in the southern part of the city they're a little more lenient  ...

[quote author=curious_aardvark  link=1128811076/20#28 date=1130155203]Hellfire - I like the knife second from the right in the picture - but I think you'll find that the majority of the forum are considerably more than 16 years old and there are actually a few who are more than capable of forging/making serious blades - lobohunter for one :-)
Most of us are growing old disgracefully and so still sound like teenagers lol

Oh wow - just checked out jph's website. So umm, any chance of a discount for slinging.org members on blades ? (well someone had to ask :-)
And how do you pronounce your surname ?
Damned impressed anyway :-)
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umm. I'm actually fifteen years old. I have made about seven bows I really like, started my 8th yesterday, that knife was kind of hard to make, took a while. My neighbor has an anvil and something similar to a forge, we had to modify it a bit. It took me two weeks to get it done, hammering with those larger hammers is a lot of work. The handle was put on differently to most anyone I think has done a handle, but I didn't see a reason why it would not work. I am working on-lately-  building up draw weight with my bows- two days ago I drew back my pappys 70# recurve. I can't draw it more than three or five times so I have to practice on that too.

I think as far as a beltsword, it won't work. Those bowen knives are slick though, and I would have liked to get one when they were available. have to go cya

I really like bowie knives, theyre very wide and fairly long, nice looking knives. I might put a deeper edge on that one. I like it a lot.

have you ever showed a knife to someone and when they see it  they smirk for some reason I think when you create something you have a better apreciation. yes that is a nice knife, where did you get the metal what is it made of?  didi you harden by dipping it in oil when you where done?



Yeah. I think the same. You'd have a better appreciation for an ugly stick if it shot other sticks- youd call it a bow and youd be proud of it. I got the metal from an old high carbon steel saw blade. I annealed it carefully, did hammering to put in the bevel and used a plasma cutter to cut out the profile. I ground it down with the bench grinder, surprisingly I didn't have to grind it much. Then I heated it red hot and quenched it in chicken blood. Chicken blood works great, and when your buddy is a butcher, that works great too. I suppose oil would work too. This thing can really hold an edge, and I compare chicken blood to brine, so it would be a tad more brittle, but would get a sharper edge. I'm not using it as a crowbar or anything, so a brittle-ish edge is ok.

Hi JPH. I looked at your site. Very nice. The thoughts passed on to some of the younger guys was very good also.

http://www.sbcounty.gov/museum/images/Sword-china.jpg
just realized with a little work this idea could make a unconceiled belt sword just make sure your shirt is tucked in and your city allows the open dispay of swords some do.