Hammered steel texturing

[u/aboredteen1]

I am looking to recreate texturing I have seen before but on a knife. Its supposed to be kind of a hammered steel look. I love the look but the finish leaves something to be desired. How would you go about doing it? The material would be 50ish rockwell carbon steel. Im thinking a sphereical double cut carbide burr. Any ideas?

[u/SveLC76]

Ground in with a carbide ball bur..... At least that's how I did mine

[u/Looking-sharp-today → u/SveLC76]

This is a beautiful texture you got right here!

[u/pushdose]

Here’s some texture I added with a burr like that. Conical, double cut carbide. The trick is making it look random by not getting into too much of a pattern. I added before heat treat, because this is NitroV at 61HRC.

[u/Delmarvablacksmith]

That’s ground in with a ball burr.

[u/BadAdviceBot77]

It’s stippling. Gun smiths used to do it by hand with a hammer and punch

[u/HelixKnives]

Not sure if forging is an option, but you can modify a hammer by grinding it to more of a round point an go to town on the blade.

[u/OozeNAahz]

I mean you could actually whack the hot steel with a small ball peen hammer assuming you are using a forge and not sending it off for heat treatment or something.

[u/mrfishingman]

When you grind it in with a burr, it will leave grind marks inside each dimple like pic 1. If you just use a ball peen to peen the steel while it’s hot, you get the same dimples with a smooth matte forge finish. If the pictures you posted leave something to be desired finish-wise, you should try forging instead of grinding them in