Knife Making | The Paniolo - Making a Harpoon Point Bowie Knife

Paniolo - Hawaiian Cowboy

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In this video I make a harpoon point bowie knife from an old leaf spring. The steel is 5160 spring steel. The segmented handle is made of black walnut and spalted mango. Step by step knife making process.

Chapters
0:18 flattening the steel
0:38 annealing
1:09 cutout
1:47 profiling
3:16 drilling holes
4:01 weight reduction
4:34 grind lines
5:41 grinding bevels
6:55 firing up the forge
7:12 normalizing
7:40 recalescence
7:59 quench
8:32 temper
8:43 match up handle material
9:47 blue back
10:00 cut handle material
10:53 glue up segmented handle scales
11:59 post heat treat bevel grinding
13:00 etching maker's mark
14:16 drilling pin holes
15:01 acid etch
15:38 stone wash
16:55 cutting handle scales to size
18:18 attaching handle scales
19:44 profiling handle
21:39 done
21:54 testing