The Wonder of Knifemaking by Wayne Goddard

Author:Wayne Goddard [Goddard, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Crafts; Hobbies & Home, Antiques & Collectibles, Firearms & Weapons, Crafts & Hobbies, Metal Work
ISBN: 9781440216862
Amazon: B005E8ANQE
Publisher: Krause Publications
Published: 2011-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

Two finished knives. At the start I let the collector know that the blades would have very little ability to hold an edge. He said that if they were capable of opening a letter that would be good enough, and they did.

The irregular shape of the backs of the blades shows the skin of the meteorite with its natural recesses. This is a feature that is highly valued by meteorite collectors. If you find a smooth rusty metallic object it is probably not a nickel iron meteorite. If it had a lot of dents and recesses it could be a meteorite. The thumb shaped dents are formed by the burning during the entrance to the Earth’s atmosphere.

The meteorite material for the two welded blades were fragments from Canyon Diablo. I forged a long spoon on the end of a large file, filled it with fragments and did a forge weld. Talk about ugly, the fragments just kind of pushed into the file, displacing it but welding where the meteorite touched the steel. The nickel in the meteorite material made it harder to forge, however the folding and welding evened it out. After folding and welding a couple of times I put a piece of bandsaw steel in the middle and folded it about six or eight more times. It came out pretty good but would not have had much of a pattern without the piece of bandsaw mixed in.

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