made a knife!

sworth

Well-Known Member

• Feb 3, 2013

• #1

Spent the day doing what I love best; smokin' 'n' creatin'.

Made this dinky neck knife



Well, I say it's a neck knife, but until I've made the sheath I guess it's just a little knife

Ox horn slab, brass rivets, O1 tool steel, belt sander and angle grinder... and off I went!
It's the first one I've made but the main reason I'm so pleased with it, to be honest, is because nothing went wrong, got broken, or lost, I didn't run out of anything, need some tool I never had etc etc. Just one of those jobs that bumped along merrily.
So much so, I made a good start on a couple more;



Anyways, thought I might get a nice response/critique from those of us who've had a toke today?

 

Bakatare666

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• Feb 3, 2013

• #2

Looks professional man.

 

sworth

Well-Known Member

• Feb 3, 2013

• #3

Thanks Bakatare! That's the best thing I can hear, as the idea is to make them to sell in the future...
Nice one!

 

ASMALLVOICE

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• Feb 3, 2013

• #4

Nicely done Sir.

I appreciate a good knife, my old man taught me to never leave the house without a good pocket knife on me and I don't.

Peace

Asmallvoice

 

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gioua

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #5

Nice! I have made a few carving handles for my carving knives but never tried metal work.. how long did it take?

 

sworth

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #6

If I had the tools and materials in front of me, I reckon on an hour...two at a smokin' pace

I've yet to sharpen it though, which is going to take a while...
At least it will when I can afford to buy a whetstone

 

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gioua

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #7

sworth said:

If I had the tools and materials in front of me, I reckon on an hour...two at a smokin' pace

I've yet to sharpen it though, which is going to take a while...
At least it will when I can afford to buy a whetstone

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I use a few of the diamond stones to sharpen.. (nothing but leatherstrops for my flexcuts knives) but I will sharpen the other knives with the diamonds..

 

sworth

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #8

I had to choose between a combi Japanese waterstone, or a set of diamond stones.
Since I know nothing about either of them I went for the waterstones, purely because I'll usually like the more traditional side of things...in life generally.

(I'm well pleased having found a little creative something to crack on with...it's done some work in chasing the blues away..The herb, and something to make with my hands=Life's diazepam! )

 

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gioua

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #9

really kinda depends on the steel for me.. the flexcut uses a high carbon steel and it holds the edge enuf to only need a strop.. the 420 stuff I have needs the diamonds once they dull up a bit.. they can take more abuse..

did you forge these or?

 

sworth

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #10

I was just thinking this morning how I need a forge to do "proper" knives.
I bought a length of tool steel off Ebay and ground the shape out to do this one...

 

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gioua

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• Feb 5, 2013

• #11

sworth said:

I was just thinking this morning how I need a forge to do "proper" knives.
I bought a length of tool steel off Ebay and ground the shape out to do this one...

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save yourself the time... unless you want another hobby.. there are plenty of good pieces of steel out there already if you know what type of steel you like.

I spent too much money on crappy ass knives and finally found the steels I like and the blade I like to use for wood carving.. and then I spent even more on that crap too... lol I have the entire flexcut carving set and knives... but.. I wont ever need another set..

 

hotrodharley

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• Feb 6, 2013

• #12

If you stick to making knives check out the Burr King line of belt grinders. Attachments available include an undersized wheel for hollow grinding and a platen to guarantee level.