New knives

[Illyria]

260mm suji. 15b20 clad 52100.

Picked up a delam, so now I got myself another house knife, hahaha.

 

[Geigs]

How many knives would 100lb of magnetite result in, and will you sell me one

 

[Illyria]

How many knives would 100lb of magnetite result in, and will you sell me one

Working on building the tatara this weekend.

Will post progress pictures with how it goes.

Depends on how big of a bloom I get and how much I lose to refinement.

 

[Illyria]

7 hour smelt.
150lb charcoal
65lb iron sand

First bloom came out. About 24lb of bloom. Need to start checking for carbon content and refining it. Today I'm going to rest because it's taken about 50 hours over the last few days to get to this point.

 

[Illyria]

First attempt at forging out a little piece of the bloom steel.

7 folds. Next time I'll aim for a few more.

150mm petty.

Polished on my own natural stone.

 

[Gregmega]

Very cool. Nice work, has to be gratifying...

How’s the hardness?

 

[Illyria]

Very cool. Nice work, has to be gratifying...

How’s the hardness?

Thank you!

I have to wait a couple of days to go borrow a buddies hardness tester to be sure. Water quenched and tempered at 325, feels around 60-62 on the stones.

I'll be working on getting a full sized gyuto forged out of it over the next few days.

 

[Gregmega]

My interest is officially piqued- lmk when/how I can get a shot at one of these!!

 

[Illyria]

My interest is officially piqued- lmk when/how I can get a shot at one of these!!

I'll keep you posted on how they turn out.

Thanks!

 

[Illyria]

Snowed in, so finally finished up a handle for the 225x55 gyuto. Weighs in at 225g, balance is 0.75" past the heel.

 

[63falcon]

How does one go about getting one of these beauties?

 

[AT5760]

This looks fantastic

 

[Illyria]

How does one go about getting one of these beauties?

I'm working on finishing up some handles for a few forged 52100 monosteel blades.

I'm holding off forging anything for a few weeks until my new heat treatment kiln (no more borrowing from friends, haha) and touchmark stamp arrive.

I'll be posting my new stuff as it's being made.

Thanks!

 

[Justablacktee]

Very nice work ! All that look so promising !

 

[Illyria]

Ordered some 26c3 to make honyakis, so I decided to actually get around to attempting a stone finish on a honyaki I had laying around for a year.

190x52 house gyuto. 1095 at about 65hrc, water quenched.

First time ever attempting a honyaki polish.

 

[Illyria]

Back at it.

New heat treatment kiln (Evenheat lb-18) is shipping this week. Getting some forged out and ready for heat treatment before it arrives.

Wrought iron clad 52100, monosteel 52100 and some 26c3 for honyakis.

Will be posting a lot more once the kiln arrives.

 

[Geigs]

Those gyuto profiles are great.

 

[Justablacktee]

Can’t wait to see the result !
(especially on those small ones ...)

 

[tostadas]

Ordered some 26c3 to make honyakis, so I decided to actually get around to attempting a stone finish on a honyaki I had laying around for a year.

190x52 house gyuto. 1095 at about 65hrc, water quenched.

First time ever attempting a honyaki polish.

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Oooh I love that hamon pattern

 

[branwell]

My girlfriend complains that I spend too much time on knives, so I made some knife earrings as a peace offering.

Also aeb-l stainless steel and desert ironwood. Stirling silver hooks and jump rings. View attachment 96166

Brilliant.

 

[branwell]

Etched in acid for a few minutes.

Can I ask which acid you used? I've been using PH Down on Wrought but its slowwwwww. The pic below is after 15 hours.

 

[Illyria]

Can I ask which acid you used? I've been using PH Down on Wrought but its slowwwwww. The pic below is after 15 hours.

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Uchigumori finger stone polish, wash well with soap and then a mix of muriatic acid and ferric. Only takes a few minutes.

 

[branwell]

Uchigumori finger stone polish, wash well with soap and then a mix of muriatic acid and ferric. Only takes a few minutes.

Nice. Thanks much.

 

[Illyria]

Heat treatment kiln arrived.

215x50mm 52100 gyuto clad with wrought iron.

67hrc out of the quench, tempered down to 63hrc.


Polished up to 5k (sandpaper) followed by uchi fingerstones and an acid etch.

Pre acid -

After acid -

 

[Illyria]

Ohh, also got my touchmark stamp.

Just my initials in a stylized font that I had my brother design for me.

 

[Illyria]

210x51mm Z-max gyuto with forged geometry at 68HRC.

Destroyed 5 or 6 belts grinding it, hahaha.

 

[Illyria]

Honyaki practice.

Water quenched 26c3 bunka at 66hrc.

Polished to 5k, then some uchi fingerstones to contrast the hamon.

 

[Illyria]

Set of AEB-L knives at 63hrc for a buddy down in Peru.

Gyuto choil. Forgot to take a picture of the petty choil before I packed it up.

 

[Illyria]

230x56mm wrought iron and nickel samascus clad 52100.

My first attempt with any sort of damascus.

Experimenting a bit with the forged geometry. Nearly where I want it.

 

[xsmx13]

230x56mm wrought iron and nickel samascus clad 52100.

My first attempt with any sort of damascus.

Experimenting a bit with the forged geometry. Nearly where I want it.

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Where do I get in line?!