Making a set of 3 kitchen knives from 80CrV2 steel FULL KNIFE BUILD Forging, Heat Treat, Sharpening

Description
In this video I forged out a set of 3 kitchen knives; a 9” chef knife, an 8” filet knife, and a smaller 7” chef knife. The blades were all forged from 80CrV2 steel. I ran 3 normalization cycles at 1650F, 1500F, and 1400F. I quenched the blades at 1525F in Parks AAA quench oil that was heated to approximately 120F. I tempered the two chef knives at 400F to achieve a hardness of around 61 Rockwell. I tempered the filet knife at 425F to achieve a hardness of around 58 - 59 Rockwell. I ground the bevels on each knife up to 220-grit on the 2x72 belt grinder, and then hand sanded from 120-grit to 400-grit.

I attached stabilized maple burl and blue epoxy handles with white G10 liners. I secured the handles with (6) 3mm stainless steel handle pins. I shaped the handles on the bandsaw and grinder before hand sanding them to 600-grit. I polished the handles on a buffing wheel with pink rouge, and then applied 3 coats of Odie’s Oil finish. I allowed for at least 12 hours of cure time between coats.

I sharpened the knives on diamond stones, and progressed through a 300-grit, 1200-grit, and 3000-grit stone. I stropped the knives on a double sided leather strop loaded with 5 micron diamond paste on one side and 3.5 micron diamond paste on the other.

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