Frontier Khifed Forged

[Steve Nuckels]

I have been admiring a Daniel Winkler knife for some time now and decided to give one a try today.  I forged finished the blade as best I could leaving the spine and the edge bevel to grind.  I'm planning to leave the forge scale on most of the blade. I attempted to add some texture to the flats also.

I have a question, after establishing the edge bevel and any other finish work, should I edge quench to harden the blade, or full quench?
And to temper would it be easer or more advantagous to heat treat in the oven or use a torch?  If I use a torch will the oxidation travel to the edge to gage the temper, or would the forge scale block or inhibit it?

   

   

Steve
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Potomac Forge

[DANA HOLMAN]

Steve
I can't tell you anything you want to know, but your forging is pretty nice
Dana

[DANA HOLMAN]

Steve
I can't tell you anything you want to know, but your forging is pretty nice
Dana

[Steve Nuckels]

Thanks Dana X 2

Steve
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Potomac Forge

[Scott Roush]

Steve... I just do most of my heat treating by either doing full blade or by carefully bringing just the edge up to critical.  I've kinda lost the reason why you would ever really need to edge quench, soft back draw, etc.  Any fancy quenching I do is simply for hamons or hardening lines.

Nothing better than a firebrick sitting in your regular food oven.  They are steady as a rock and fairly accurate according to my two thermometers I put in there. As long as I wipe off most of the oil, the wife doesn't mind.

Nice forging!