/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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Grind lines and profile is getting good, great handles

Finished off some smaller knives as a treat to my ailing joints, its nice not to be beating on something fucking enormous.
Top one is Buloak+ ebony with turquoise inlay and some wirework on the spine, underneath that is Gidgee + turq inlay, 3rd one down is Tiger Myrtle and a purple/brown agate inlay and red liners, last one is Gidgee + turq inlay.
All D6 steel with a 304SS spine and fittings/pins tempered to about 60HRC. They're sort of semi-outdoorsy kind of knives, the two smaller ones I sort of pictured as gentlemans boat knives and the larger, broader ones are just generic utility knives and all with a high flat grind. Also in the theme of being nice to myself I didn't put any bolsters on them because I just needed a break from doing that and on some of the smaller knives can get in the way.
Also gave the utility knives a bit of cold-blue which didn't work, too much chromium in the D6, but worth a try, so they're just acid etched in ferric chloride, polished and call it a day on those. More than likely they'll all end up as kitchen knives rather than anything else

Fresh out of heat treat, its back to the grind with an 8" and 10" chefs knives, the 8 has only been taken up to 800grit and I'll finish them off later, but its sort of a priority to get out the door.
The 10" I went buckwild on, front 1/4 from the tip back is high-flat and the rest of it is a really deep hollow grind down to about 1mm thick and the spine is about 4mm across the widest with a really long distal taper all the way through to knock the weight off. (304-D6 61HRC)

Underneath them is what I was hoping to do this week, a small splattering of 304SS with A2 cutting edges 2 paring knives, herb cutter and some 8" chefs knives.
Herb cutter got some fairly brutal decarb on it, so dunno if it'll be viable, its not too deep but need to dig around see if its ok. All the others are fine and sitting around 62HRC after tempering