This is far from perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it. I want to thank this forum for answering my questions, even the ones where it was obvious I had no idea what I was doing! This truly is a great community, and that's tough to find these days on the internet.
First knife!
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This is your first? Sheeeeeesh!
Really marvelous work! Love the profile, handle is first rate. Tell us a little more about it, steel, dimensions, how the process went?
I wanted to make it as simple as possible so I chose A2 (we deal with A2 at work and got it heat treated at work). Tested at 62 Rockwell. Started with .100" stock and drew the profile up in Solidworks. Blade length is 210mm. I don't have a belt sander yet so I built a jig to file my grinds. This took forever, I'm definitely using a belt sander from now on. I got it a bit too thin before heat treat and had a little warp. I couldn't fit clamps in the small oven at work so I re-tempered while clamped at my oven at home and got most of the warp out.
I do a lot of woodworking in my free time so the handle wasn't an issue, aside from trying to use an aquafortis finish. When I used a heat gun to heat it up, the epoxy came loose and I couldn't get the two pieces back together and started over. Next up is a matching santoku!
Very ambitious project and well executed! Bravo! It must be very gratifying to use it to prep a meal with!
Can we get a choil shot?
This what you mean?
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Yeah. That's pretty good considering you used hand files....I would not have that kind of patience
What could I have done better? Looking for next time, and still could improve this one.
PM me. Send more pictures, spine, close ups, etc. We'll talk.
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Nice job 
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Looks fantastic for a first knife.
.Looks fantastic for a first knife.
Better than my first knife! Keep it up!
Well done!
lesslemming
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First?! Seems incredible. Well done!
