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A Big Chopper #6885616 09/13/17 12:52 AM
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Finished this one for an order yesterday. Made the blade from 1/4" thick 5160 spring steel. Overall length is 13"and the blade is 8" long. Scales are stabilized black walnut with stainless hardware. Blade was acid etched for a forced patina.
Delivered it today and it's owner was happy with it so that always makes me happy as well.





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Re: A Big Chopper [Re: MikeC] #6885635 09/13/17 01:04 AM
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Beautiful work Sir!


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Re: A Big Chopper [Re: MikeC] #6885778 09/13/17 02:40 AM
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That's a nice knife.

Re: A Big Chopper [Re: MikeC] #6886070 09/13/17 01:53 PM
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Re: A Big Chopper [Re: MikeC] #6886658 09/14/17 12:27 AM
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That looks like it should work fine. Nice job.



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If I ever make another like this one I'd use 3/16" 5160. It would reduce the weight and still be beefy enough to make a good chopper. The customer wanted the 1/4" so that's what he got.


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Originally Posted By: MikeC
If I ever make another like this one I'd use 3/16" 5160. It would reduce the weight and still be beefy enough to make a good chopper. The customer wanted the 1/4" so that's what he got.


That's what I do Mike on larger blades. I have some 1/4" 5160 I like to forge down to about that. It's one of my go to steels when I'm not using 52100 which is my all time favorite steel.

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