Bent Knife

[GridRunnerAdventures]

Hey all! just joined to show you my first run at making a working knife.
http://gridrunneradventures.com/bent-knifes/

Now... to find some green oak to carve some wooden spoons to replace the crap i bought from walmart heh.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

That image is too small for me to get a good look at the knife.

 

[GridRunnerAdventures]

if you rightclick it and hit view image then click on the new pic that comes up it will be full resolution.

 

[Kevin Jones]

Not quite what we are use to seeing here.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Let's move this to Shop Talk rather than Custom & Handmade.

 

[GridRunnerAdventures]

ah i thought it classified as handmade but this is more a tool then the primo stuff you guys are making.

carved the handle with an axe. the only power tool i had to use for its construction was an angle grinder with a cuttoff wheel.

any tools i can use to cut blanks out without the use of power? please dont suggest hacksaw

 

[YuriM]

ah i thought it classified as handmade but this is more a tool then the primo stuff you guys are making.

carved the handle with an axe. the only power tool i had to use for its construction was an angle grinder with a cuttoff wheel.

any tools i can use to cut blanks out without the use of power? please dont suggest hacksaw

Nothing wrong with a respectable hacksaw. I cut the blanks for my first two knives using a hacksaw. Just make sure it is a high-tension hacksaw, not the regular kind, and use a bi-metallic blade. You'd be surprised at how fast it goes

 

[GridRunnerAdventures]

got a link to the kind your talking about? could i use one to cut say 30 metal strips without my arm dying?

I have a hand crank bench grinder in my shop. was wondering if it could be fitted with a cuttoff wheel heh

 

[Mahoney]

If the steel is reasonably soft, a sharp cold chisel and a vise are a very fast cutting combination. Anyway, I'd try that before trying a cutoff wheel on a hand cranked grinder. Even the hacksaw would be easier than that.

I can cut a 1" wide by 1/8" thick strip with just a few hits. It always amazes my students, who think that steel is impossible to cut by hand.

Clamp the steel in the vise with the cut-line at the top of the jaws, lay the bevel of the chisel on the front vise jaw with the edge at a slight angle to the workpiece. Don't tip up or down. Start at one edge of the workpiece and work your way to the other. Think "pair of scissors" where the chisel is one blade and the rear vise jaw is the other. Use a wide enough chisel, at least 3/4" to 1" and a big hammer (20 oz. or more). Use your hand cranked grinder to keep the chisel sharp. The top edge of the cut will bend slightly, but a couple hits on the anvil will take care of that.

 

[GridRunnerAdventures]

wow . you gotta make a youtube video of that! post a link here?

 

[caribooblades]

Aki and I make bent knives. Also called crooked or hook knives.
We have a link on how to make a bent knife from saw blade.

Making your own hook knife

Scott.

 

[Patrickknives]

Pretty cool, I have seen them for wood carving, I think they were also used for preparation of hides, scraping the inside. carib has a nice tutorial that can be used for anytype of knife good for alot on newbys to see.