Recent content by Lucas

Made some time to do some leather work and tooled up a sheath for the latest knife

Thank you! I will be ordering a tapered reamer for my next project.

Finished up my third knife last week, and fourth knife yesterday. Apologies in advance for bad cell phone photos. This is the third, it is 1/8" 1084 from Aldo. I used maple for the scales, and black paper micarta for the bolsters. Blade is 3 3/8", sanded out to 1000 grit and buffed Now...

I will keep that in mind, thank you. I have handled knives that felt like they weighed a ton compared to similar sized knives, and had wondered how the weight difference was made up; materials, construction, and size being similar.

Thank you. I'm having a blast just picking up new skills. I ground out another blade this evening. Figured if I was going to heat treat one, I might as well do two. I spent more time getting the plunges lined up and stopped before the spine, and am happy with how this one is going so far...

Thank you. I'm not happy with the plunges, but I learned from it. Finished grinding on my third today, ready to be heat treated. It is also 1084 and 15n20.

Hello everyone, I finished up my second knife a few evenings ago. This one is 1084 and 15n20, both from Aldo, forge welded together for 180 layers of random pattern. Heat treated by heating just past nonmagnetic and quenching in canola oil. Tempered with 2 one hour long cycles at 400F. Spine...

Hello, I'm Lucas. New aspiring knife maker from Pennsylvania. Started out a few years ago by putting handles on purchased blade blanks. Have been satisfied with that until recently when a former boss of mine told me that he would like to have me as an apprentice to teach me how to forge...