Behold...the MEGA-SMATCHET!!!

Great job on the Smatchet!!!

The hollow in the handle had to be some tough drilling.
This could be the new modern day doctors knife, the “Pill Chopper”.
 
Pretty cool wip thread, I believe that's the first integral smachet I've seen, Congrats. You can lighten it quite a bit I would assume by making it non-integral. I'll bet your neighbors below you like knifemaking. :D
 
stabman said:
Not yet...but I am planning on doing a run of Smashblade.
Design is almost fully dialed in; funds for steel and handle material will be the next goal.

A variant of the Mega-Smatchet could be a great idea too. :)
I have a few ideas on how to get it closer to 2 pounds, while still being insanely strong.

I figure a timetable of around a year is not impossible...seems to be a goal to shoot for. :thumbsup:
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I have an idea! Why don't you do a go fund me and charge people in full for the knives they can have sometime in the distant future, maybe, should be real soon, but first I'll need to sell some seconds to fund the original smatchets that I spent all that money on pills for the hollow handles....nevermind.:)
 
Makes me damned proud to be a fellow Canadian!

Nicely done.

The neighbors must have loves the balcony grinding though! :eek:
 
willc said:
Great job on the Smatchet!!!

The hollow in the handle had to be some tough drilling.
This could be the new modern day doctors knife, the “Pill Chopper”.
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It was tough drilling it, but mainly due to the set-up.
Drill press travel being less than required, no angle plate, an insufficient vise...fun! :D

d762nato said:
Pretty cool wip thread, I believe that's the first integral smachet I've seen, Congrats. You can lighten it quite a bit I would assume by making it non-integral. I'll bet your neighbors below you like knifemaking. :D
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I do believe that it is likely the only integral, hollow handle Smatchet on the planet. :)
The neighbours should feel honoured to be part of such an historic accomplishment. ;)

danbot said:
I have an idea! Why don't you do a go fund me and charge people in full for the knives they can have sometime in the distant future, maybe, should be real soon, but first I'll need to sell some seconds to fund the original smatchets that I spent all that money on pills for the hollow handles....nevermind.:)
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Heh, I know, right?
I'll be waiting till I have knives to sell before saying I'm selling knives. I'd rather end up selling only three knives than having a bunch of people all pissed off at me, howling for knives.

SharpieB said:
Makes me damned proud to be a fellow Canadian!

Nicely done.

The neighbors must have loves the balcony grinding though! :eek:
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Some neighbours looked up and asked what I was doing...but seemed to have no problems with it, really.

After a while, on subsequent days of balcony work with files and Dremel, they would simply ask, "Still working on the huge knife? How's it coming along?"

Of course, with the popularity of Forged in Fire, it was almost like they were living in a television show. :thumbsup:
 
stabman said:
Not yet...but I am planning on doing a run of Smashblade.
Design is almost fully dialed in; funds for steel and handle material will be the next goal.

A variant of the Mega-Smatchet could be a great idea too. :)
I have a few ideas on how to get it closer to 2 pounds, while still being insanely strong.

I figure a timetable of around a year is not impossible...seems to be a goal to shoot for. :thumbsup:
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Would it be possible to make one with a hollow handle but build it so you could give it more of a traditional grip?
 
danbot said:
Ain't that just it though! Their just happy to see someone working at something!:)
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I think that's pretty much it.
It's also something that many people can't figure out how someone does, till they see it and have it explained.
A girl from China at the lab was in the lunchroom today, and she could not understand how someone could fashion a handle without specialized machines.
I explained it to her, and she thought it was quite interesting how I'm doing things that are so outside my field of study.

She said that in China, people tend to focus on one area of study/interest, so someone who made knives as a hobby would generally have a job that employed skills which were quite similar (like a machinist, mechanic, etc.).

Although we may not be quite so focused here in the West, we do tend to focus a certain amount on our own "world", so to speak. It is always an interesting experience to encounter things that are outside of what we normally see and do, and knifemaking certainly fits into that category for most people. :)
 
Lapedog said:
Would it be possible to make one with a hollow handle but build it so you could give it more of a traditional grip?
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That's exactly what I am thinking of.

For this one, I wanted to do an integral, but that makes it bloody heavy, as well as transmitting more shock to the hand when chopping (thank God for anti-vibration gloves :D).
 
stabman said:
I think that's pretty much it.
It's also something that many people can't figure out how someone does, till they see it and have it explained.
A girl from China at the lab was in the lunchroom today, and she could not understand how someone could fashion a handle without specialized machines.
I explained it to her, and she thought it was quite interesting how I'm doing things that are so outside my field of study.

She said that in China, people tend to focus on one area of study/interest, so someone who made knives as a hobby would generally have a job that employed skills which were quite similar (like a machinist, mechanic, etc.).

Although we may not be quite so focused here in the West, we do tend to focus a certain amount on our own "world", so to speak. It is always an interesting experience to encounter things that are outside of what we normally see and do, and knifemaking certainly fits into that category for most people. :)
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Forsure, and that makes total sense in any culture, but a lot of machinists I work with love woodworking as a hobby. I personally like metal working much more.
 
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