1st Stock removial Knife

Tommegow

Tommegow

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I have been assembling kits thus far. This is my first "real" knife
I made four blades out of 1/8" X 1.25" X 36" O-1 bar stock.
This is the first finished one.This is my fridge door knife.(I proudly posted my kids kindergarten crayon masterpieces on the fridge door) Packed with flaws but at least it resembles a knife The pictures look better than the knife does in real life

It is 7.5" long overall, 3.25" Blade. I copied the gentleman's skinner from TKS. Homemade micarta two layers each color T-shirt material. The ricasso/slab joint was so ugly I tred to make it satin. The rest of the blade was sanded to 1200 grit stone, then rubbed with a rubbing compound



 
I'm happy I get to be the first to say "You did good, Tom!":thumbup: Each knife will improve.. be happy with all the things accomplished and simply notice what you plan on doing better and work towards that on the next piece. The following knives will always be the better ones, but only one time gets to be your "first". It's the biggest leap in knifemaking you'll ever make all at once. Savor it.

Congrats!:)
 
I think they're purdy cool. Love the "T-carta" :)
 
not bad at all better than my first tries for darn sure. One thing id do though is use all dark (varied shades) or the cloth material be that tshirt or purpose bought. Your grinds are really good. I cant even begin to tell you how many times it took me to get a fairly good grind on the blade. I can make nice profiles easy enough but the grind always ruined the over all look. Like others said i love those little skinner type paterns and mini bowie styles. Right now i got a crkt k-at on my side. Folders ive carried include the gerber mini covert and various other small paterns. Lots of people i see with a knife on their side tend to carry smaller paterns.

So you really chose a good patern for popularity. All in all heck id buy it :) That is if i had a job lol.

As for polishing heres a tip i found out totally by accident. I reground a old blade and of course lots of nasty deep scratches. So i took a old cyclindar hone stone and some spray oil and started just going in small circles inside my grind. Turns out not only did it get rid of them nasty scratches but gave the grind a nice beed blasted looking finish. Finner honeing stones and you could most likely take a grind to a mirror polish
 
that looks pretty good, much better than my first knife i did... not that i have actualy finnished any fully yet since then but thats not important.

the actual blade looks very nice, i can see where there is a little part that is not as smooth in the line as you probably wanted but not shaby. i do see some things that i can tell you wouldnt be happy with but hey, first from scratch its great.

that micarta looks pretty consistant.

hmm your in GA but you used a euro to ive a referance... nice.
-matt
 
Tom,
From what I can tell it's pretty nice but the pictures are all effed up???? Can't really make out much. I wonder why noone else commented on that? Maybe just my computer? Wish I could see it better!:mad:
Matt
 
Looking good, an order of magnitude better than my first. Your grinds look very good from what I can see, each one will get better and better.
 
mdoyle said:
Tom,
From what I can tell it's pretty nice but the pictures are all effed up???? Can't really make out much. I wonder why noone else commented on that? Maybe just my computer? Wish I could see it better!:mad:
Matt
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Well...we were cutting him some slack because the focus(cockeyed pun here) was on the actual making of the knife. But, yea, got a little blurage on the subjecto.:p
 
That looks a heck of a lot better than my first one:thumbup: :thumbup:




Looks great
Nick
 
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