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Hey y'all! I'm a Navajo Bladesmith who makes knives and incorporates Navajo designs into my knives! Lmk what y'all think!

Some 1095 and old files. Forge comes in next week to do the heat treat!

I had some off cut of go mai billets i made (when cutting materials to make the tang) , decided to use it as cladding to make a small piece. I love the result. I might try to stack more pieces to make more black lines and i'm just in love with copper

Any tips of removing scratches like this?

I have tried a few times but they are still there. It was suggested that you guys here might have a better idea.

Is flitz ok to use?

I have tried some green compound and a cloth. Inwas recommended to get a polishing wheel for my dremel but I wanted to make sure that was not to extreme.

Thank you for any help.

Hi there,

I'm starting again on blacksmithing, learned it years ago and I can finally take some time to enjoy it again, including knifemaking.

I purchased 80CRV2 steel for my knives but today, my local mechanic (I live in a very small city) told me he had a lot of free steel that I could use, which includes mainly suspension rods and braking discs.

I did some spark testing and some hardness testing but I have no idea what kind of steel is usually used for this kind of thing and if it's useable at all. I don't have access to a laboratory that could tell me so I'm left with trying to know what's usually used for this kind of pieces and assume from that.

Do you guys have any experience with this kind of steel? it looks like steel because the broken parts have black-ish rust layer, it's magnetic and sparks look something like 1045 maybe, but that's about all I know and I couldn't find more online about the kind of steel used for this.

Can anyone tell me how the people on ETSY make those mosaic pins with wolves and American flags and pins with a picture design in them? Do they use 3d printers to do or are they machining them

Decided to make a companion piece for the Kephart I made recently, let me know what you think!

Acid stonewashed 1095 with micarta scales, G10 liners and steel pins.

I was gifted a good bit of 80crv2 that was purchased from Amazon. Saluinoki is the vendor. Does anyone have any experience with this supplier that can tell me if it’s ok steel? I am going to quench a piece to see if it hardens but I do a lot of commission stuff and don’t want to give questionable steel to a paying customer.

80crv2 60 hrc 16 inches OAL Carbonfiber handle

Can I auction a knife here? (Probably not) But could I post that I am auctioning something with a link to a website?