Fantasy knives

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Who else, when they're bored, 'designs' knives that would either improve upon a knife you currently have, or just knives that you think would be the perfect knife? Personally, I tend to start drawing knives if I've gone a while without something new and happen to be bored. Sadly, I'm not very good at drawing, and I'll probably never have the money to make a knife myself (let alone the skill) or commission a knife to be made. Anyways, who else draws or designs knives when they get bored? Here's one I drew:

It'd have around a 3" blade of VG10 with a full flat grind, a quite thin blade, and a low angled edge. The handle would be ebony with burl inlays (the little inlay near the front would be a button for a lock, which I previously made a thread about). over some relatively thin and skelotonized titanium liners and backspacer. I would also probably add a simple pocket clip to the other side, and a lanyard hole as well. And, personally, I'd probably like a high polish finish on all of the metal. And of course, my somewhat poor drawing:

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I mostly spend my bored hours sharpening knives and discussing them here, but I've thought about knife designs that would suit my needs. I wouldn't doubt that there are a few around here that actually put the extra effort and get a custom maker to forge one out.
 
I often conceptualize pieces, or think of changes to existing designs. :)
 
theron said:
wouldn't that be difficult to sharpen though? if not that would be one bad knife ;)
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I've never heard of a knife blade made of the stuff, but I assume it's possible since they do make turbine blades out of it. It would be amazing, and amazingly expensive.
 
My buddy has some left over from a job we did 2 years ago. It was an underwater exhaust on a research vessel. His plan is to forge it. And then heat treat of course. But how to do so is anyone's guess.
 
I draw knives that I won't necessarily build. Usually when I'm bored and feeling creative. I do know that if I draw something I really like, it will be made; even if I have to do a lot of work to make it happen.

I suggest you make one of your designs and see how you like it. It's really not that expensive; but it does take a great deal of research and time. In the end, you will have a knife that's really yours, from start to finish.
 
Phillip Dobson said:
I draw knives that I won't necessarily build. Usually when I'm bored and feeling creative. I do know that if I draw something I really like, it will be made; even if I have to do a lot of work to make it happen.

I suggest you make one of your designs and see how you like it. It's really not that expensive; but it does take a great deal of research and time. In the end, you will have a knife that's really yours, from start to finish.
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Actually, I was thinking about something. If I were to make some knives, I think I might actually try to find someone with access to a CNC milling machine and have them mill the blade and handle slabs, and then I'd just put the knife together, sharpen it (well, I'd probably just try to have Tom Krein shape it), finish whatever handle material I'd want on it, etc. This way, I could test out a design before investing the time and money in doing all of the work by hand, and the finished product would be higher quality to boot. Once my skills and materials progressed I could move on to making knives fully by hand, of course.
 
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