Feedback on my first knife design

I usually just tie decorative knots in lanyard holes. But occasionally I find having the knot hanging off lets me grab the knife a little easier if I am reaching or pulling it out of a tight sheath.
 
Well I roughed out my first test blade this afternoon. First thing I noticed is is how hard it really is to grind bevels! I quit while I was ahead and decided I'll need to make some sort of jig. Especially if I want some standard of repeatability. I sort of started to get the hang of it at the end but I'll have to do some modification to my little 1x30 grinder to. The rest on it catches on the steel your grinding and makes it almost impossible to do a straight grind. It was supper time so I quit.

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I really like the overall shape, and it really seems like it will work great. My biggest disappointment is with the handle. Right where the handle drops into the blade I wish I could give that a tighter radius and bring that towards the blade more. If I was wearing gloves the handle would be a bit tight and opening that up would help but unfortunately that is the smallest size wheel on my grinder.

Oh and I should have a bar of O1 next week.
 
I make my knives almost entirely with hand files. I will eventually move up to a grinder but with files you have the ability to file almost any shape or radius you want. It really does not take much longer than belt grinding and the level of control is very high.
 
Robert L Sr said:
I make my knives almost entirely with hand files. I will eventually move up to a grinder but with files you have the ability to file almost any shape or radius you want. It really does not take much longer than belt grinding and the level of control is very high.
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I may go back tomorrow and work on it with a half round. Think I'll make up a bevel jig at work tomorrow too...
 
I'd like one. Seriously - that looks pretty danged good. The improvement in design is drastic.

But you should order some 1084 from NJ Steel Baron - very easy to cut and drill, and very easy to heat treat. I just made the sharpest knife I've ever had out of it. Almost finished that is.
 
Yea... I didn't get time to work on it today at work. Maybe I can finish it up tomorrow... I've got a piece of O1 ordered. I may go back and do a different steel also as a local tool a die shop said they'd heat treat O1 for a few bucks as long as I don't mind waiting for them to do the next batch, but that could take a couple weeks.

So being that I have a local place that could do heat treating I may start trying to make my next few knives out of something else.
 
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