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Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by Jc_RAM. » Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:53 pm

Been doing a lot of reading and watching videos on making knifes
Just wondering if anyone else is into it?

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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by BC38 » Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:31 pm

My 17 year old does. Never tried it myself...
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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by ron » Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:34 pm

In 1970 I was stationed at a Remote radar site on the beribng strait in Alaska for a year. while I was ther I ordered a randal "Kit" tha cme with a rough forged blade and some brass bolsters and handle material and I picked wood for the handle but then sent away for some more exotic wood than what came in the kit.

The kits weren't very expensive and I wish that I'd bought two and left one un-assembled becaue it would be a real collectors item today. I lost the original knife unfortunately.

Years later I got a hold of a Diston industrial hacksaw blade with carbide teeth. the blade was 20 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide and a little over 3/16ths of an inch thick. I made a dagger out of it and put a bolt through the handle material and turned it on a lathe to look like a sykes-fairburn dagger handle. then I threaded the end of the tang and tapped a brass cap to hold it together and packed it with JB weld.

My brother was in the knife business for a while and he still has some of the better ones that he made and I have one. He had a nice belt sanding set-up that he eventually sold to a friend who was a blacksmith. Specialty tools like that are nice but a lot can be done with some pretty basic tools. what I think is interesting is forging your own Damascus steel.
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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by Jc_RAM. » Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:09 am

Nice
Have your son post some pics

And yea Ron I bet a old kit like that would be worth a lot now.
A nice belt sander is definitely a must
I think for my first build I'm just going to buy some steel bar online and do mostly grinding to get the shape

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Post by Call Turner » Tue Jun 07, 2016 6:04 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FqUL6slhtAtle knife building by custom knife builder Bill Bagwell.
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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by ron » Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:45 pm

Jc_RAM. wrote:Nice
Have your son post some pics

And yea Ron I bet a old kit like that would be worth a lot now.
A nice belt sander is definitely a must
I think for my first build I'm just going to buy some steel bar online and do mostly grinding to get the shape

D-2 tool steel is good for a hi-carbon steel with enough chromuium content so that it isn't as prone to rust as 0-1. You heat treat it after shaping by Preheating very slowly to 1500 F and then increase temperature to 1850 F. Hold at 1850 F for 20 to 45 minutes and air cool (air quench). You would need a small kiln for that kind of heat.

O-1 is a little easier to heat treat, You need to heat to about 1500 deg.F (bright red), quench in oil and then draw it back by putting it in a 400 deg.F oven (kitchen oven is fine) for about an hour to get Rc~ 58/60


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http://www.advantagetoolsteel.com/?gcli ... fgodMAgCPA
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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by Jc_RAM. » Wed Jun 08, 2016 10:46 am

Sweet thanks for the info
I was planning on taking it to a local blacksmith shop
I inquired about it with a shop recently and hey said it would be like $30
No big deal

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Post by ron » Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:43 pm

Jc_RAM. wrote:Sweet thanks for the info
I was planning on taking it to a local blacksmith shop
I inquired about it with a shop recently and hey said it would be like $30
No big deal

Be sure and take some pics of the work in progress.
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Post by Frontier Gear » Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:20 pm

I've been making them for over 25 years.

http://danshandmadeknives.blogspot.com/

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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by bladebum » Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:39 pm

Nice stuff Dan! :D
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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by The Mechanic » Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:41 pm

dvw86 wrote:I've been making them for over 25 years.

http://danshandmadeknives.blogspot.com/

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Post by Frontier Gear » Fri Aug 05, 2016 9:30 am

Thanks guys. I'm working on a few more currently (Forged from car springs this time). When they are done, I'll post some pics.
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Post by Downeaster » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:53 am

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O-1 and curly maple on this one. Liked it so much i kept her ;) Everything is in storage now so no knifemaking for me.

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Re: Anyone make their own knifes?

Post by Viper-1 » Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:26 pm

Just started. Learning a lot and have a lot to learn. This was my first I just finished. Coal forge, an old file, antler from a deer I killed, brass from a candlestick and a TON of hand filing.
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