Hello guys
I m ed from holland, thats somewhere in europe. The last 2 years i have been trying to make knives. With mixed results. When i started i though....i can do this.....this should not be that hard. Turned out that making a good looking functional knife was allot harder than i thought. As a result i have wasted a whole bunch of steel and money let alone sanding paper and valuable time. I did however have allot of fun trying to make these monstrosity's (because lets be honest thats what most of them turned out to be). However every time i tried to make me a knife i could feel myself getting closer to a good functional fixed blade and every time i ruined one i was thinking the next one will be be perfect. I have learned by now that i will never reach perfection, but that doesn't stop me from trying. In the last 4 months my skills have been improving allot (at least thats what i think, hahaha). I no longer make horrible mistakes on my grinder and when i do make a mistake its usually something stupid.......for example a week ago i was hardening m390 steel and my heat treating foil could not take the serious temperature needed to properly harden this steel......the result was that my foil had melted to my knife and it was on there good. Now it might have been the fact that i cooled the m390 with aluminium blocks in the foil ,add some serious pressure and its on there.......so i gave up on that one and moved on to the next one....Which i have finished last Wednesday . This knife is the first knife i'm actually pretty happy with and it also landed me my first knife making job. The knives i try to make have to look modern and as clean as possible, therefore i try to avoid bolsters engraving and that sort of thing.
Where i live there isn't a big knife community like you guys have in the states. Most people don't really like knives over here (except the cheap one in their kitchen drawer) That's why i joined this forum. I would really like to hear what you all think about my latest addition and please feel free to tell me what you don't like about it to
http://www.luchtbuks.net/index.php?showtopic=24479&st=690
If you scroll down on that page and reach the fly playing the piano, that my post (i m either doing something wrong or this forum does not let me post my pictures)
cheers, ed
I m ed from holland, thats somewhere in europe. The last 2 years i have been trying to make knives. With mixed results. When i started i though....i can do this.....this should not be that hard. Turned out that making a good looking functional knife was allot harder than i thought. As a result i have wasted a whole bunch of steel and money let alone sanding paper and valuable time. I did however have allot of fun trying to make these monstrosity's (because lets be honest thats what most of them turned out to be). However every time i tried to make me a knife i could feel myself getting closer to a good functional fixed blade and every time i ruined one i was thinking the next one will be be perfect. I have learned by now that i will never reach perfection, but that doesn't stop me from trying. In the last 4 months my skills have been improving allot (at least thats what i think, hahaha). I no longer make horrible mistakes on my grinder and when i do make a mistake its usually something stupid.......for example a week ago i was hardening m390 steel and my heat treating foil could not take the serious temperature needed to properly harden this steel......the result was that my foil had melted to my knife and it was on there good. Now it might have been the fact that i cooled the m390 with aluminium blocks in the foil ,add some serious pressure and its on there.......so i gave up on that one and moved on to the next one....Which i have finished last Wednesday . This knife is the first knife i'm actually pretty happy with and it also landed me my first knife making job. The knives i try to make have to look modern and as clean as possible, therefore i try to avoid bolsters engraving and that sort of thing.
Where i live there isn't a big knife community like you guys have in the states. Most people don't really like knives over here (except the cheap one in their kitchen drawer) That's why i joined this forum. I would really like to hear what you all think about my latest addition and please feel free to tell me what you don't like about it to
http://www.luchtbuks.net/index.php?showtopic=24479&st=690
If you scroll down on that page and reach the fly playing the piano, that my post (i m either doing something wrong or this forum does not let me post my pictures)
cheers, ed
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