Anoher Pig Knife

I haven’t made a pig knife in a while and rarely do I stray off custom orders and for sale knives, but I felt the need to do something different for a change. So, I made this pig knife, it’s 1075,14” OAL 9” blade, brass guard, bone and tiger stripe maple for the handle. It had the most beautiful gold color when I took it out of tempering, so I left it on there. I haven’t decided what to do with the sheath yet, I’ll get to it when I get time, I’m taking off a few days and then I have to catch up on custom orders. I still need to put several coats of Tru Oil on it, it's just buffed.

That is AWESOME !!!

Mr Jankowski, you have my full attention!


Wow that’s freaking sweet!

Thanks guys.

what's the gold?

I told you on text... but for everyone else, I left the straw deep old color from tempering.

Awesome looking knife.

WOW!!!

Beautiful Bob....

Bob...you need to stop posting pics of your stuff.....I'm already grounded.....you are working on getting me prenatally banned.....or worse!

SpitFire has already threatened me with severe bodily harm to certain body parts if I buy another knife anytime soon....using the new knife......

Wow brother, we sure don't want to create a situation where we have to appear on Dr. Phil.

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I called her over and showed her my post and she bit me on the arm!

That’s funny right there SnakeWrangler! She freakin’ BIT you!

That sir is a work of art.

I CAN'T imagine when I'd use a knife like this. BUT I WANT1!

Me too.....

X3

Did you clean up the bevels, add the false forge marks, and then temper the knife? I usually temper immediately after heat treat and then lose my straw color from cleaning up the knife.

After heat treat I clean it up real good with a scotch brite belt. I don't waste my time quenching in oil. I use brine so I don't have to spend a lot of time cleaning up a blade. Don't even get into warping or cracking a blade, 300 knives a year speak for themselves.

wow!

That is a serious knife. Very nice.

Very interesting. I'm glad I asked. Now I need to research brine......

Hey Bob,
Do you temper after heat treat? I've read that any tempering at all will remove any hardness acquired by brine quenching.

Yes I do Mike, been working for me, it's passed all my tests all these years. I do an interrupted quench.

Thanks Bob!