Metal Mashing Mayhem: Friday KNIGHT Open Forge - Leafing It

Tonight was the first Friday KNIGHT Open Forge. About 12 people showed up including my cousin Brooke and her husband. Cory Huff, a local farrier, also came out and demonstrated making a cobra out of a rasp. (A picture should be here but I was too involved to take any. I plan to designate someone to handle that task in the future.)

I plan on doing this every Friday night unless something unforeseen requires that I cancel. Once a month I will be doing a special demonstration to be determined each month.

This is my demonstration leaf.

This leaf was made by Seth, a guy I met at Earthfare.

Friday KNIGHT Open Forge
Every Friday Night at Knight Forge Studio
7:00-10:00

Every Friday night guests and I will be forging anything from leaves to animals to swords, almost anything we dream up in steel.  Whether a novice or master, collector or budding interest in metalworking this event is for you.

Sooke Mountain Chopper Demonstration

Sooke Mountain Chopper

This is not my typical blade shape but I will be making this size chopper in full tang with canvas micarta with brut de forge style. I will be making 9 more. Some will have a clip point but all will have the big belly like this one. The price is $475, $525 with a sheath. If you would like one place your order now and call me about delivery time. They will be numbered 1-10. 1 is already gone..

Blade: W-2
Taper: 8 1/2"
Thickness: 5/16"
Handle: Canvas Micarta

Knight Chin Bowie

This is a new knife that Taiwanese ABS Master Bladesmith Jimmy Chin and I recently made. This is the first collaboration piece that we have done together as well as the first knife Jimmy completed as a Mastersmith. Jimmy received his Mastersmith rating on May 29th. He is the first ABS Master Bladesmith not only in Taiwan but also in all of Asia.

Jimmy made the damascus. I forged, ground and heat-treated the blade. Jimmy polished and etched the blade. I made the guard and the handle. This is my version of a southwest bowie. This is the largest Damascus Bowie I have made.

This knife has already cut two people - twice.

Knife Stats

Blade Width: 2 1/4"

Blade Length: 13"

Handle Length: 5 1/2"

Overall Length: 18 1/2"

Jimmy Cloud Pattern Damascus: 15N20 and 1084

Handle: African Blackwood with silicon bronze guard

Price: $2000 - SOLD

Dark Knight Prototype No. 1

This prototype knife incorporates some design concepts I have been working on for the past couple of weeks and putting some variations of it into play. One of the concepts was to make a blade that has a non-reflective surface without a costly treatment that couldn't be repaired. What I came up with is illustrated in this knife. The other concept was to make a handle that had some texture with a little more grip and not use G-10 or Micarta. This handle is curly maple, which works well for this technique. Desert ironwood also works well. I started using this technique on sculptures about 15 years ago. I decided to try it on knife handles this year at the Blade Show using ironwood.

I didn't intend it, but you can see a very sinister face in the pattern on this blade.

Ashokan Hawk

In September, I premiered a tomahawk at the Ashokan Seminar. The "hawk" was forged from one piece of steel. Today I started on a new one. This is forged from 5160.