Bench Knife - Show Your Handmade Tools

[KnifeHead]

When you are working on something at your bench, how many times do you reach for something to cut and scrape with? Here's a handy tool that I learned about from Tony Bose that fits the bill.

This is patterned after a congress slip joint folder with both blades opened. One blade is flat chisel ground for use as a scraper and the other is a 10" hollow ground blade for cutting/carving. The handle is cocobolo and pinned with SS. It's overall length is 8".

The steel is probably L6 and comes from an old bandsaw that was surface ground to .100". I oil quenched and tempered the blade ends with a torch. Rc tested right at 59(you can see the Rc dimples in the images) Only took a couple of hours to crank out, including interruptions.

 

[grease-man]

Thanks for sharing that Kerry, I wouldn't have thought to make anything specific for the task. My assortment is below. K-Bar stockman, Shapleigh Hardware DE stockman (grandpa's old knife), and a KSO that was an experiment that I haven't gotten around to breaking just yet! -Matt-




I hope the pic works for you, I'm just getting a box with a red x in it.

 

[koyote]

Whatever knife I made last that didn't turn out so hot! hahaha.

Really, I have a lot of modified screwdrivers and rebar bits, and I've been thinking of making some tiny odd shaped burnishing tools out of knife steel scraps. I'd love to make them into "400 grit files" somehow.