Back at it after a long break

olymon

olymon

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Well, here's a little introduction (I'm not sure if this is the right place). I made quite a few knives in the past. I took at least 12 years off, I'm not sure why, probably getting married and having kids was a big part. I first learned how to make from my grandpa over 35 years ago. He always used files for his blades and so did I. I can still remember sitting on a stool because I was too short to reach the vise to be able to file my blade. I still have that knife to this day, but it needs a little clean up on the blade. Right now I'm working on cleaning up a blade that I haven't touched in the last 12 years. Sadly it just sat in a drawer and picked up a little rust from where it was not put away properly and is a little rusty.

I'm not sure how to post up some pics but I'll read up on it and see if I can post up some pics of some old photos that I scanned
 
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just a test to see if I am on the right track to getting a few photo scans on here. Seems like I had a stretch of during and after college that I was making more knives then ever. I realized that I took another big break during my 6 years in the Navy. They didn't want me making Weapons on board the ship. seemed kind of stupid to me.
 
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Ok so I can make something like this work, but I really don't want to. still trying to figure out how to make just the pictures show up.

Arrgh, I had this working and then when I finished editing, it doesn't seem to work.
 
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Well, it looks like that worked finally. The top one was a bowie I made for a guy that does civil war reenactment stuff. probably abouit a 9" blade, middle one was a hunter for a guy in college, and the bottom short tanto style blade I sold to the same guy as the bowie above.
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Poor scanned pictures from back in the early 90's. Nearly all of these were a file, made with just hand tools. I don't want to put up too many pics so here's a few more


 
If your talking about the one on the blue background, it was easy to get that shape with the thickness of the leaf spring it was made out of. I made it for a guy at college that wanted a "big" blade (designed on a scrap of paper). I had way too many hours into that one. I about wore my elbow out filing and sanding that thing. I really like the shape of that one and the one below it with the gray and blue handle.

A couple more. I haven't really made a whole lot of knives and they aren't any show pieces but they function and I like the satisfaction of the whole process from raw material to finished product.


 
I was cleaning up and organizing my garage last weekend and found something. This was the knife design that I based my current knife that I'm working on now. My grandpa was working on this one before I was working on mine. He passed away before he ever finished the blade. I'm really debating about finishing up this knife for myself after I finish the blade I made. Torn between keeping it, or making it mine to give to one of my sons one day.
 
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