Forging a Wootz Integral Chef Knife

[@grahamfoulkes7321]

Most impressive piece of forging. Never had or developed the skills myself, but been closely connected to forging and metallurgical production on an industrial scale, UK gas turbine manufacturing facility, where turbine blade forging was just one of the processes I was involved in. I appreciate the skills involved in the processes from raw materiel selection through melt to the forging, grinding and polishing. Thank you Peter.

[@peterburt7218]

I would imagine that gas turbine blades use a very different alloy than what I'm playing with! The wootz has a fairly tight forging range by bladesmithing standards, but I know that the superalloys are a whole different beast in that regard!

[@grahamfoulkes7321]

Hi Peter. Further to my earlier comments about wootz steel processing and addressing your reply mentioning superalloys and high temp alloys, I continue. I developed material testing and inspection processes based on ultrasonics to detect flaws and evaluate material properties in both forged and cast components including equiax, directionally solidified and single crystal materials. One steel which was particularly interesting was a triple melt vacuum steel used for rotor shafts, gears and other highly stressed components. It had very fine grain structure and very low acoustic losses. I wonder how it would compare to a wootz steel, UTS & EL, with its large grain boundary pattern?

[@lynnhall3532]

My fav video so far. Sweet.

[@peterburt7218]

Thanks Lynn!🤙🤙

[@StuartSmithHandForgedKNives]

that was super cool. Really neat forging

[@peterburt7218]

Thanks Stuart! I'm still getting used to the way the fullering dies work on the small hammer; it is very effective but the bpm is much faster than the hammers back at Dragon's Breath Forge.

[@creekninja]

That is some beautiful wootz sir

[@peterburt7218]

Thanks! I should be posting the finished knife on IG sometime this week so you can see the final pattern.