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Crafting Method « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. Crafting a Hand Forged Knife. Scroll down and click the images to be transported to the individual Crafting Method pages and see the method to the madness! 8211; Click the images below to follow me through the process of crafting a custom, hand-forged knife! Heat Treating & Final Sanding. New knives For Sale! I've added four new knives up for sale! Shop Update: May 2014.
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Ares « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. Click Image to Enlarge. The Knife shown above has been sold. If you like the design, don’t worry! A similar knife can be hand-crafted upon request! Return to Main Gallery. Click Here to Order Now! Return to Knife Gallery. 5160 Carbon Steel – Rough Forged & Antiqued. 8211; To Be, Rather Than to Seem –. The Operator Series is the culmination of my drive to build a series of knives that...
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Operator Series « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. 8211; To Be, Rather Than to Seem –. Original Prototypes of the Summiter, Ares, Diablo, and Deimos. The current version of this sheath may just have found that perfect functionality. Return to Main Knife Gallery. 8211; Knives of the Operator Series –. Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! Return to Main Knife Gallery.
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Making the Handle « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. 8211; Full Tang Blades –. Fixed blade knives typically have two functional styles of handlesthe ‘Full Tang’ and the ‘Hidden Tang’. The ‘Tang’ is the back part of the blade…if made properly, the tang and blade are all one piece of steel with the blade forged or ground out of one end. 8211; Hidden Tang Blades –. If I am using pins through the handle, these are inserted here as well....
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Gallery « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. Deimos – Bocote Wood. Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! Phoenix Chef – Ambonia Burl. Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! Phoenix Chef – Manzanita Wood. Click the image above to View More! Click the image above to View More! New knives For S...
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News / Updates « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. New knives For Sale! I’ve added four new knives up for sale! Two Phoenix Series kitchen knives…a slicer and a new design I call the Roll-E-Chopper, sporting a beautiful and extremely rare English Yew wood handle cut from Sherwood Forest, England! Carbon steel kitchen knife. Hand forged kitchen knife. Leave a Comment: (0) →. Shop Update: May 2014. Below are some pictures of us deconst...
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Shop Update: May 2014 « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. Shop Update: May 2014. My apologies for the long delay between updates…it’s been a wild year! Biggest news is that we just moved my knife shop this past weekend. I’m now sharing a shop with renowned knifemaker Phill Hartsfield! A huge thanks again to everyone who came and helped with the move! Leave a Comment: (0) →. Phill Michael – 1970-2011. 8211; Rest In Peace –.
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Media Videos « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. West Coast Bladecraft TV. 8211; The West Coast Bladecraft Video Collection –. Join me as I take you through the basics of hand forging a blade starting from the raw steel bar. Click the image above to watch! Grinding & Rough Sanding. Once the forging is complete, the knife moves to the grinder to have its final profile shaped and the forging scale removed. 8211; Coming Soon! Two Phoe...
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Forging the Blade « West Coast Bladecraft
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Heat Treating & Sanding. Knife Care & Maintenance. Terms & Conditions. Phill Michael Sherpa School. Secret Spot 7 Summits. It is important to know what type of blade you plan to make before you start. It is never a good idea to just start forging and see what happens…most of the time, the results will not be to your liking! The NC Tools Knifemaker Forge will heat the steel to around 1800 deg F/982.2 deg C! I really would have just wasted all of my time at the forge. After the blade is forged to the desir...
