filework

Jack142 · Sep 17, 2002

I am new to knifemaking, but have been a fan for years. I pretty much have read everything out there on knife making. I just started buying knife kits to get some practice on and wanted to do some filework on the back of the blade handles. Where can I get books or websites to read to get some basic knowhow and tips.
Thanks Jack

etp777 · Sep 17, 2002

Here are a few links that I got on here before

Vine Filework

Arrowhead Filework

Ripper · Sep 17, 2002

Hi Jack,
Welcome to the forums.
Bruce Evans has some great tutorials on his site.
He has two for filework: vine and arrowhead patterns.
Regards,
Greg

I see etp777 was faster in making the same recommendations,
just consider my post a second to his suggestions. Great info there.

Jack142 · Sep 17, 2002

Thank you, I already looked at the vine work and figure on trying it out tonight on some scrap metal. By any chance,do you know where I might learn how to do the "rope" file work ? That is one pattern I like a lot on handles.
Thanks Jack

peter nap · Sep 17, 2002

Well...everyone else beat me to it. Bruce Evans makes filework, just like everything else he does, look like childs play. Read his instructions and modify the basic vine to rope. There are a number of people who have put up tutorials and in addition to being unselfish enough to share their secrets, they put a lot of work in making them understandable for everyone!

Bruce Evans · Sep 17, 2002

To do a basic rope patern just mark the blade at 1/4 inch sections then go at a diagonal from one section up to the next one ahead on the other side of the blade with a round file then when making the next cut leave a small uncut section between the rounded out sections that you just cut then take a 3 corner file and cut in a groove on the little humps and then round all the edges together.Hope you can understand this.Basically just try and see what you get and then experiment and you will be suprised at the different patterns you can come up with.
Bruce

Glad you guys like the tutorials.

Reg ELLERY · Sep 18, 2002

Thank you for sharing the file work tutorials.

They look great

ddavelarsen · Sep 18, 2002

This one is a bit hard to get good info out of but will pay dividends if you give it a chance:

Filework Article at KnifeArt.com

Dave

Jack142 · Sep 19, 2002

I want to thank everyone for their help. I tried working on a piece of scrap alum last nite, wasnt too successful, but practice makes perfect. Or so I am told. I think what I have to do is play around with it till I get the hang of it.
Thanks
Jack