Another newbie question, please help.

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karmazon

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How do you make the details on the back edge like this:

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Get some scrap steel, some files, a sharpie, and get after it. Sharpie is good for laying out patterns. Scrap till you get confident. Any kind of file will work, did many of my first ones with the corner of a regular flat bastard file. Now that I've got a needle file set, my work is even better. No secrets, just have to try.
 
Thanks for the awesome tutoral. I had no idea that was in there. Guess I better go back and do some re-reading.
 
Checkout Dwayne Dushane's DVD if you want to learn some first class filework. He does'nt hold back any secrets and there are a ton of tips to make the work easier.
 
Since we are on this subject and this tutorial was offered is it safe to say that creating a knife with these types of filework on the spine is not copying other peoples work? I allways liked the way it looks but was afraid of looking like a cheat for copying stuff I had seen on others knives. Still a newb and still learning .

Bennie
 
File work and engraving aren't copying, they are individual skills. Many collectors can identify the knife maker by the file work.
Stacy
 
So make sure I'm right here.

I'll have to do my filework before heat treat. So after heat treat it's all going to be covered by the heat treat scale. I'll grind that off of the flat part of the file work to clean that up, and all the recessed parts will still be basically black from heat treat scale. Will this look right?
 
That's the way I do it, leave the scale in the cuts for contrast. Looks good to me. There are other folks that polish it all out and make it look good. I generally leave the scale in, and fill in the filework between the handle scales with clear epoxy. Some folks go so far as to use black epoxy.

I do my filework before HT, but if you edge quench or soft back draw, you can do it after.
 
No filework is not copying. The idea is to learn all the patterns and techniques and then try to create your own. Knifemaking is kind of like being a musician, everything has already been done it just depends on how you arrange the notes.
 
Well, I'm a guitar guy. Right now I'm playin the old Les Paul. For a few years I was in a metal band and we did a lot of Dream Theatre/Fear Factory type stuff. I was playing a 7 string Schector and Ibanez. My bass player was using a 6 string Ibanez. And we abused a lot of b strings, sometimes tuning down to A. I think the low frequency joggled something loose and now here I am makin knives.
 
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