TideBringer - custom handmade knife - 2019-2022

Final-ish result

With the other knives I was working in parallel

Starting the forging process with 5160 steel

Letting it cool after thermocycling

After the forging, there are a lot of scale left. The scale is quite annoying to clean and at the time I did not know how to do before it cooling down. You don't want to use a new sanding belt on them. They destroy whatever touches them :)

First Design and rough sanding pass

Cat for scale :)

Shaping the handle from a block of burl wood impregnated with resin.

Rough shaped the guard

Final result of the Version 1

Redesign with a thinner blade and a hand forged guard