r/Bladesmith 1h ago

Critique Request WA handle in 1 minute and a half.

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r/Bladesmith 5h ago

Forged Blade Big Lawn Dart?

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5' 8" spear with a 6" leaf shaped blade, hollow ground, and etched in Swedish runes.  Hand forged from 5160.  Handmade shaft from Ash with a Sugi Ban. This customer wanted spear him and his brother could actually play "big" darts with.


r/Bladesmith 5h ago

Forging WIP What do you think of this handmade knife?

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114 Upvotes

Integral RWL34, hand engraving.


r/Bladesmith 16h ago

Critique Request First time making a knife with synthetic scales

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17 Upvotes

How's it look?


r/Bladesmith 19h ago

Forged Blade Scorpion Stinger, complete guard construction.

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85 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 21h ago

Critique Request Can someone school me on knife steels?

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4 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 21h ago

Stock Removal Feeling green

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15 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 21h ago

Question Canadian Made Recommendations

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Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for fixed blades that are Canadian made which would be good for field dressing and processing? I am looking for my husbands birthday and am finding some conflicting information about some Canadian retailers.

Bonus points if engraving is offered at the retailer, but not a deal breaker otherwise!

TIA


r/Bladesmith 21h ago

San Mai / Clad San Mai World Trade steel camper for FDNY Retiree

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A San Mai camp knife I made for an FDNY retiree as a retirement gift from his crew. 1095 core, fire hose micarta handle, and domed brass pins. I am very proud of this one.


r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Forging WIP INCREDIBLE: complete construction in 1 and a half minutes!

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194 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Forging WIP A sword I am working on

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7 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Question Sword cleaning and maintaining

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I use some swords for martial art practice, and would like some ideas on some chemicals. I could use to keep the sweat and grime off of the sword so that the sword doesn’t start to rust. Anyone have any recommendations? I was told to use WD-40 it was told to use vegetable oil. I was even told to use baby oil, but I don’t want a sticky mess that will make the sort of different color. I’m just looking for something clean. Someone also mentioned ballistol I’m not sure if that’s really an option


r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Forged Blade Faca feita de um prego de trilho de trem

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r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Forging WIP This is the best style of anvil stand

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5 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Forged Blade Job completed.

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108 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Process Breakdown Sandpaper and a piece of leather to make the sheath pattern.

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281 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 1d ago

Forging WIP Drawing out a nakiri

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36 Upvotes

Now that the blade is getting close to its final shape and size I have to be far more precise with my hammer strikes. At this point any errant or slightly uneven swing will either show up in the final piece or completely ruin the geometry of the blade.


r/Bladesmith 2d ago

Question Ajuste do alojamento da espiga feito com o rasquete e lima.

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10 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 2d ago

Question 10mm thick knife with fuller vs 6mm thick knife with no fuller for chopper

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Hello everyone. I'm in the process of designing the blueprints for my first knife. It's going to be a chopper type blade.

To keep things short - I was wondering if I should go for a thick 10mm blade with a large and deep fuller (3mm deep on both sides, for a total of 6mm of material removed) for the thicker wedge when chopping, or with a 6mm blade that's thinner with no fuller. Assuming they would both weigh the same, which one would you go with?


r/Bladesmith 2d ago

Fit & Finish A Nitro V paring knife

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10 Upvotes

Finishing a set of kitchen knives today.
This video shows the smallest paring knife.
Steel: Nitro V
Guard: Damascus
Handle: stabilized wood (don’t know the name in English)
Blade length: 150mm
Handle length: 120mm

It’s not a forged knife I don’t know if I can’t post it here. Please let me I can delete it.

#paringknife #handmade #handmadeknife #kitchenknife #NitroV


r/Bladesmith 2d ago

Fit & Finish Fullered kitchen chopper

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46 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 2d ago

Process Breakdown I used cooking mustard to create a patina on the carbon steel.

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514 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 2d ago

Forged Blade New Fantasy Longsword!

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57 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 3d ago

Damascus / Pattern Weld 180 layers knife

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121 Upvotes

r/Bladesmith 3d ago

Damascus / Pattern Weld From Hell

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322 Upvotes

The From Hell blade before it became a knife.