I've made a few stock removal knives, but I am a beginner in every sense of the word when it comes to knifemaking.
I was hoping to get some feedback on these two designs. I'm still learning (a lot), and I'd like to hear what y'all have to say about these, positive or negative.
Just for a sense of scale, the overall length for the big one is about 8.5", and the small one is about 5.375".
Ignore most of the Sharpie lines on the big one, I was playing around with ideas for bevels and whether to drill out areas to reduce weight.
The big one I was planning on using as a skinning/utility knife to keep on my hunting pack or on my belt. I was planning a Scandi grind for it, with a false edge on the top that would run 1/2 the blade length or so. On the handle, I ended up deviating from the original design. I was grinding it, and decided to keep some of the back to wrap around the pinkie finger a bit.
The small one is sort of a long story. When I was in college, I couldn't carry my EDC Benchmade Mini-Grip, because the blade exceeded the length that the university would allow, so I went to Wally World, found a cheap knife that met the max blade length that was legal for school, and bought it. It was a crap Gerber with a chisel grind. Blade geometry was not good at much, but once I put a new edge on it, it did excel at delicate slicing, in spite of the crappy steel. I thought I would try to make a better version of a chisel ground slicing knife with this design. Won't be used for much, but these designs are for me to experiment and learn, more than anything else.
So anyway, what do y'all think? I'm all ears.
Jason
I was hoping to get some feedback on these two designs. I'm still learning (a lot), and I'd like to hear what y'all have to say about these, positive or negative.
Just for a sense of scale, the overall length for the big one is about 8.5", and the small one is about 5.375".
Ignore most of the Sharpie lines on the big one, I was playing around with ideas for bevels and whether to drill out areas to reduce weight.
The big one I was planning on using as a skinning/utility knife to keep on my hunting pack or on my belt. I was planning a Scandi grind for it, with a false edge on the top that would run 1/2 the blade length or so. On the handle, I ended up deviating from the original design. I was grinding it, and decided to keep some of the back to wrap around the pinkie finger a bit.
The small one is sort of a long story. When I was in college, I couldn't carry my EDC Benchmade Mini-Grip, because the blade exceeded the length that the university would allow, so I went to Wally World, found a cheap knife that met the max blade length that was legal for school, and bought it. It was a crap Gerber with a chisel grind. Blade geometry was not good at much, but once I put a new edge on it, it did excel at delicate slicing, in spite of the crappy steel. I thought I would try to make a better version of a chisel ground slicing knife with this design. Won't be used for much, but these designs are for me to experiment and learn, more than anything else.
So anyway, what do y'all think? I'm all ears.
Jason