Knife Making - Fancy VIKING Knife with a FLUTED Ivory Handle

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The making of a fancy viking styled knife.
Please note that this is not an attempt to a historical reconstruction, it's just our fantasy of how a very fancy viking knife could look like :)
The fluted handle was certainly a challenge, but I'm happy with how it came out.

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How to blacken steel (hot oxide):
A mixture of caustic soda (700g), potasium saltpeter (250g) and water (1,2 l)
The temperature of the solution should be kept between 120 - 140 C.
I keep the knife inside for about 30 minutes to get consistent black colour, you can manipulate the time to achieve different results, shorter period should give you dark brown or purple - ish colour.
Be careful - this mixture is highly corrosive!

Heat treatment:
-Austenizing temperature: 830 C
-Tempering: 180 C

Thanks to Kyle Royer for showing the fluting process, check out his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/KyleRoyerKnives

Specs:
Viking
Steel: 80CrV2 3.1 mm
Length: 230 mm
Blade width: 28 mm
Blade length: 110 mm
Handle: Elforyn Super Tusk, Brass
Weight: 180 g

“Each insult is woven with just enough truth to make it wound.” ~ Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman

Music by Alexander Nakarada (Fjörður album)

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