Today I made a Viking knife for the first time. Decided that I wanted to put a few twists into the handle. Put the knife into the vise and used channel locks to make 3 twists. Came out pretty nice I thought at the time. Finished bending the handle back on itself and let it cool. I now see a small stress crack where the twist starts just past the ricaso. See pictures. Is there any way to salvage this? Not sure it will make it through heat treating/quenching. There is a lot of material there. Can I weld it? Start over or make it a shop knife. The Steel I used was 1095.
I assume that this area cooled faster as it was near the vise (heat sink).
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No; a lot easier to make another one than to fix, hope, stress over that one. Junk it and add one to the learning curve.
M
Mike Williams
Master Smith
Thanks Mike.
