Fun with scraps - made a little integral EDC

crimsonfalcon07

crimsonfalcon07

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I was cleaning out my shop today, and found a piece that I'd cut off while making one of my swords, which was actually big enough to make a little knife from. However, it was a full 1/4" thick (Aldo's 5160 only comes in 1/4" thickness, AFAIK), and I've recently become somewhat less enamored of big thick stock for little knives. So, I ground down an 1/8" from each side. This one I didn't plan at all, and actually used my grinder for the entirety of the profiling.




As you can see, I decided to mess around with some texturing using a 1/4" drill bit (less fond of that part), and did a little filework along the spine of the handle.



It's a little busy now, but hey, it's my first integral (I'm assuming I'm using the term correctly; correct me if not), since I'm a stock removal guy, and there's a lot of steel wastage for integrals and stock removal.



And the requisite blade first shot, to make it look like a bigger knife, even though it's only 6.75" long...



Overall, I actually kinda like this little fella, and thought I'd share. What have you made from scraps besides kiridashis?
 
I love the little guy. Curious though, did you first grind all the way flat on both sides then bevel it or did you mark the spine and bevel from there? It sounds like you flattened it first which should be more precise but I think more labor intensive (at least if you were only using a belt grinder).
 
You are correct, I flattened it first, and then did the bevel grinds. I did none of this precise marking of which you speak, however. Freehand all the way! Then clean up with files...
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
You are correct, I flattened it first, and then did the bevel grinds. I did none of this precise marking of which you speak, however. Freehand all the way! Then clean up with files...
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My 18yr old son has made a few knives using my equipment and as hard as I try, I can't get him to lay out a centerline, or measure anything. He calls your method "precise eye-balling" :)
and hey, it works for him, lol.

randy
 
Once I get a decent centerscribe, instead of a drill bit, which has proven fairly imprecise anyways, I'll probably start measuring more. It's darn hard to keep an even grind for 20+ inches, after all, without jigs or anything. However, once you've managed a few of those to SOME degree, a little tiny blade like this is no sweat at all, and Mark 1 eyeball is plenty good enough. I'm kinda torn between investing in a centerscribe first, or one of Fred's bubble jigs, for use on my sword. Even with measuring though, it still comes down to my skill at placing the grind and plunge, which for me is all eyeball anyways. Drawing it on the steel is just an aid for that, and there are other reference points to be used as well.
 
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