/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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There's all sorts of stuff out there from other parts of the world from that era which I find interesting. Lot of the Indo-Persian, Malay, Filipino and that whole middle-asia region is kind of under represented in modern day reproductions, to some extent a fair bit of it is also quite 'practical' in the sense its geometry and use wouldn't be impractical.
I mean I'd love to make weird shit like a Cinquedea or Rondel, but they're so specialised and functionally useless in the modern period they're just wall hangers and I just don't make wall hangers. I really like my stuff to be used.
>1 min crazy man rant over!

Anyway just a bit of a close up of a work in progress 8" knife which has a really pretty ferrite structure visible, one of the reasons I'm kind of enamoured* with the ultra high carbon steels is seeing it on the surface. Lot of chromium carbides demarked next to spheroidal martensite and whatever is left of the super fine pearlites. Not a great photo, I'm no good at that, but thought it would be interesting to document along the way as I don't recall too many pictures available of that crystalline appearance in modern steels (in this case D6 at 2.2% carbon and 13% chromium)
Still have to go back in and do a fine polish by hand to get the buffing wheel scratches out, but for the most part its well on the way to being done once the oil dries on the handle properly.

>*I get what I can in happy bits, its an absolute shit to get a half decent polish on, eats belts like a fat kid going through cake and a nightmare to sharpen... like literally, pack a lunch because you'll be there a while.