We offer a wide variety of single blade knives, a smaller version of our signature single blade for optimized portability, a cool double blade, a dagger, and a tanto knife. My 17 yr old daughter quenching her first spike knife. Take one of Northern Crescent Iron’s wrought iron knives with you on road trips, hunting trips, camping expeditions. Use it daily around the home, or just display it for all to see. Two of us (including me) made railroad spike knives while the other person made a horseshoe. It feels great in hand and has a balanced design. Hank did the finish grinding and put a sharp edge on the knife. The highest carbon spikes are around 0.35 carbon, the lower are about 0. Many customers have noted the comfortable weight and shape of the handle. Its basically a really wet water, faster than ice water, and will harden lower carbon steels like spikes fairly well. Engrave it with your special message for the perfect personalized gift. It's not illegal to forge a knife with an old railroad spike nor is it illegal to forge with any other solid piece of metal. I like this stuff for corkscrews, hardy tools, short-term specialty chisels, RR Spike knives (If youre gonna do it, ygotta at least try to make it a decent knife), short-term or low-use marking punches. As long as you have it, you can forge with it. It wont be glass-hard, but you should find that a file does not bite well, and itll still be plenty tough. Hand-forged and heat treated for strength, each knife has a consistently clean curve and is wire brushed and coated with wax for a nice finish. Are you aware that you can make a knife out of any railroad spike without having people try to correct you on what works. He explains that the resulting knife won’t be as hard as something like high-carbon steel for example, but they’re it’s highly effective in use. We only use new, high caliber railroad spikes and our quality and consistency is 100% guaranteed. The knife you see here started life as a normal railroad spike, once Fehr got his hands on it he put it through a process of forging and water quenching to ensure that it’s as hard as possible. Our high quality railroad spike knives, stands and sheaths are handmade here in North Carolina. basics of heating steel, forging, shaping, grinding, and quenching.
Hand-forged using over three decades of craftsmanship, the railroad spike knife is our signature wrought iron blade.
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