Jurassic Word: Forged Grady Knife

[Sundowner]

I’ve been blacksmithing for about two years but now I’m getting more serious about it. I built a forge and a foundry so I can do it from home.

I’m blending my two loves, Movie Props and Blacksmithing. I decided start with forging a Jurassic World Grady knife because I wouldn’t mind actually carrying it. I’ll be making two because the forge doesn’t care how many knives are in it and I might be able to sell the second one to recoup some costs.

reference material

Kidding, I found the original maker of the knife and the original maker of the sheath

So I’m a fan of carbon steel over stainless, so I’ll be using some 1095. Time to feed The Ghost Forge!

 

[Sundowner]

I had a pretty decent day forging as the weather was nice. I hammered to shape two blades. They have been quenched and tempered. The next thing to do is off to the belt grinder

 

[awol007]

Looking cool. Did you finish it?

 

[Sundowner]

I had orders in between but finally making some serious progress on these.

 

[Zinger]

Looking good. Do you know what wood they used for the scales?

 

[Sundowner]

Looking good. Do you know what wood they used for the scales?

It looks like they used curly maple so I picked up some of that. Im also going to try my hand at making my own mosaic pins.

 

[Sundowner]

I hand filed a vine pattern on the spine!

 

[Sundowner]

Not much to look at here, actually kind of ugly. I did a bit of rough grinding the bevels then it was off to be quenched. When quenching a blade in oil, some scale can develop. That is was it looks so ugly at the moment.
Next step is to temper the blade and hand sand to make it look pretty!

 

[Sundowner]

All of the hand sanding is finished. Now I’m going to be working on the scales (handle).

I also finished a cutlass that has been on my bench for awhile

 

[Sundowner]

Today is the day! I’m finishing up the knife scales (handle). Once this is finished I’m probably going to sell this one and then finish the other. The other knife is the exact profile but I’d like black curly maple scales which wouldn’t match the screen used knife.

 

[Sundowner]

The first coat of stain brought out beautiful stripes in the curly maple. I may stop here, let it dry and then apply the boiled linseed oil.

 

[Sundowner]

Done! If anyone is interested in this one just DM me!