Forging a Knife From A Civil War Era Bayonet

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Holden Murphy and Chris Carpenter! A Model 1873 Trapdoor Bayonet is carburized and forged into a bird and trout knife. Although production of this bayonet began after the American Civil War they were often made from existing, war time Model 1855 bayonets whose sockets were cold pressed down to fit the latest Springfield rifles and were then blued. Whether or not this particular bayonet is a cold pressed and blued Model 1855 I do not know but at the very least it has ties to the period and for the purposes of this project I thought of it as a Civil War Era Bayonet. Thanks to Alec Steele for providing the wrought iron. Handle is Bocote, spacer is brass.