Thread: Show me your knives

Birthday present from me mate Josh






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Nice! That'll make the next filleting job easy.

Originally Posted by Smiddy

Birthday present from me mate Josh






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Ahh, you’re the guy from his videos, I recognise the name, happy birthday !

Originally Posted by Shelley

Ahh, you’re the guy from his videos, I recognise the name, happy birthday !

Lol I havnt been in a video for a long long time but yea cheers


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Made this recently, haven't done anything serious with knives for a couple years. This knife and others are what a friend waggishly terms "The knives formerly known as Zedteq". Will probably post a couple of other images down the track. May as well include a shameless plug for a website I set up a few weeks ago NZ made knives - Hunting and Outdoor knives ][ATTACH]100297[/ATTACH.

Knife above : Made of L6 carbon steel. Blade length 102 mm, overall length 224 mm, thickness at spine 3.9 mm, Rockwell hardness C55. Full untapered tang with Wenge handle scales, shallow hollow grind.

Very nice, looks similar to the loveless drop point.

Originally Posted by Wurzelmangler

Knife above : Made of L6 carbon steel. Blade length 102 mm, overall length 224 mm, thickness at spine 3.9 mm, Rockwell hardness C55. Full untapered tang with Wenge handle scales, shallow hollow grind.

Hi what would one of these cost?

Originally Posted by Wurzelmangler

Made this recently, haven't done anything serious with knives for a couple years. This knife and others are what a friend waggishly terms "The knives formerly known as Zedteq". Will probably post a couple of other images down the track. May as well include a shameless plug for a website I set up a few weeks ago NZ made knives - Hunting and Outdoor knives ]Attachment 100295Attachment 100296[ATTACH]100297[/ATTACH.

Nice to see you back making knives. I sent one of your knives to a friend in Japan and it became a little bit famous processing Sika on youtube. Have you tried any of the CPM steels? Cheers.

That one would be $250, including sheath, delivered. Cheers, D.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Nice to see you back making knives. I sent one of your knives to a friend in Japan and it became a little bit famous processing Sika on youtube. Have you tried any of the CPM steels? Cheers.

Thanks again for sending that one over, from that vid I had a guy from the USA want one but wasn't doing much with them at the time. Haven't tried the CPM steels. Have used D2, Bohler N695 (440C equivalent) and Uddeholm Elmax (like 440C but with 3% Vanadium). I don't like heat treating these steels as they need to be austenized at 1000+C, which is hard on my gear. Plus I think they really need to be done in vacuum or under inert gas. The Elmax ones I did a while ago, wrapped in stainless steel foil, needed to be austenized for 45min at 1100C, which is the upper limit of my furnace and burnt out the thermocouple (Eeek!). I could farm out the heat treat of such steels but that comes with its own set of problems...

As an aside re: the Elmax knives I made, my personal one, which tests at RC57, doesn't seem to hold an edge that well. Could be at 1100C and 45 min there was more decarburization in the thinner bevels compared to the spine (I have to hardness test at the spine flats).

The performance "we" are getting with the L6 plus the fact I can do my own heat treating and hardness QC means I will stick with that (and similar) steel for a while. Cheers, D.

Originally Posted by Wurzelmangler

Thanks again for sending that one over, from that vid I had a guy from the USA want one but wasn't doing much with them at the time. Haven't tried the CPM steels. Have used D2, Bohler N695 (440C equivalent) and Uddeholm Elmax (like 440C but with 3% Vanadium). I don't like heat treating these steels as they need to be austenized at 1000+C, which is hard on my gear. Plus I think they really need to be done in vacuum or under inert gas. The Elmax ones I did a while ago, wrapped in stainless steel foil, needed to be austenized for 45min at 1100C, which is the upper limit of my furnace and burnt out the thermocouple (Eeek!). I could farm out the heat treat of such steels but that comes with its own set of problems...

As an aside re: the Elmax knives I made, my personal one, which tests at RC57, doesn't seem to hold an edge that well. Could be at 1100C and 45 min there was more decarburization in the thinner bevels compared to the spine (I have to hardness test at the spine flats).

The performance "we" are getting with the L6 plus the fact I can do my own heat treating and hardness QC means I will stick with that (and similar) steel for a while. Cheers, D.

What does your N695 come out like? Its a good steel. 50-100 too, thats a good old carbon steel - maybe my favourite of the carbon steels. Nothing wrong with your L6 though.
Cheers

Did the N695 maybe 15 years ago, only one of them, a small drop point. Came out OK but I mainly use it as a kitchen knife now. It would be nice to do more work with these steels but <<Time and Cost>> Cheers, D.

A couple more knives made recently, a half tang stumpy skinner and full tang drop point.

Saw that stumpy Skinner on your website..... I had to stop drooling