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- Jun 15, 2010
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It's not exactly a 'todays find' more like 'transformation finished today', so Mods feel free to move this if you think to do so.
It's made of a find i found in Feb. this year when i was on a battlefield search with a team of the German University of Osnabrück and a film team of National Geographic. We were researching German and American front lines in the Hurtgen Forest.
The truck with digging equipment and GPS stuff
German canteen with bullet hole, american cable drum for field phones and German mortar.
It was cold on the free field. Really cold. But the only time of the year we could work there.
Now to the knife. We found a piece of armor plate when excavating an US dugout filled with trash from the battle. It had a nice ring when hit with metal, the ring hardened steel has. As this piece was not of interest i took it from the trash bin to take it as souvenir.
On my way back home an idea became a plan. And it was a long icy way home.
Cleaned up and shaped into a knife this plate hit the gas forge.
Forging the blade
First try with the Elmwood handles. I'm more familar with steel than wood...
Finished knife, hardened, polished an sharpened. I did some filework on the back.
Today i finished the display with a brass plate.
It says: forged from armor plate, found in the Hurtgen forest, 1944/2019
Thanks for looking!
It's made of a find i found in Feb. this year when i was on a battlefield search with a team of the German University of Osnabrück and a film team of National Geographic. We were researching German and American front lines in the Hurtgen Forest.
The truck with digging equipment and GPS stuff
German canteen with bullet hole, american cable drum for field phones and German mortar.
It was cold on the free field. Really cold. But the only time of the year we could work there.
Now to the knife. We found a piece of armor plate when excavating an US dugout filled with trash from the battle. It had a nice ring when hit with metal, the ring hardened steel has. As this piece was not of interest i took it from the trash bin to take it as souvenir.
On my way back home an idea became a plan. And it was a long icy way home.
Cleaned up and shaped into a knife this plate hit the gas forge.
Forging the blade
First try with the Elmwood handles. I'm more familar with steel than wood...
Finished knife, hardened, polished an sharpened. I did some filework on the back.
Today i finished the display with a brass plate.
It says: forged from armor plate, found in the Hurtgen forest, 1944/2019
Thanks for looking!
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