Going to slow down and start small.

I like the one on the top. It looks sleek and clean.

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I drew out a design I liked for a small piece of scrap 5160 I had 3 inches long and 3/4 inch tall. The handle is not attached I am sending it in for heat treating. It came out just like my drawing I guess thats a plus.

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I had to reprofile it some for the finger grip on the bottom makes it so much more comfortable. I made a leather sheath for it so I can wear it like a necklace if needed as well was my first time doing anything with leather before so it does not look very good but it works. Its still not even close to done but I think its a good start with a decent ruff shape.

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was a piece of 5160 I plan on using it to gut and skin animals as you need a small sharp blade for that. I could not make it large as I only had a small piece of steel so instead of junking it I made something with it. Its good practice if nothing else.
 
You've certainly never ever skinned or gutted an animal if you think you're going to do it with that. "Skinners" as a knife style have a particular shape for an important reason. Please, slow down and do some research, there has been thousands of years of knife makers leading to many tried and true shapes for a reason.
 
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I guess the same things you would use a Boker gnome for

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But that looks nice. It's seems you just want to crank out sharp objects instead of creating a good looking knife based on the suggestions from hundreds of years of experience from the respondents. I guess if your knife gets the job done but it's not was this forum is about.
 
Its not finished still working I wont finish it till I get it back from heat treating. I know skinners usually have curved blades to make it better for slicing. I origionally made it to use up some scrap get some practice getting a straight bevel line. I still need to make a jig for that I think. Its not sharp or anything yet so just practice.
 
Its ok, on the FB forum The Art of Knifemaking, he said he was going to ignore this forum and the advice he got here and just do what he wanted.
 
If you're going to make skinners, you should have some experience skinning.


Two seconds elbow deep in guts and you would know that those spiky jimping points are terrible.
 
You could use that gnome picture and reprofile your blade to look like it. It would likely still fit in your leather and you would get more practice out of it.

Or keep working on it to practice fit and finish.
 
yeah I am going to order more steel soon. I may weld up a jig today like the one count posted. I have not skinned anything large yet a boar when I was like 14 but that was it. I have skinned a few squirrels recently nothing to get my arms to deep into yet. I was thinking of that about skinning need to have a curved blade for that. This may end up as a last resort box cutter but I wanted to get some practice on my bevel lines and try and get them straighter as I really suck at that at the moment.
 
I have ordered a piece of steel and 2 micarta scales for it. I also have just been trying to clean up the 2 knives I have done some work on. I paracord wrapped the handle and epoxied over it. The bright orange color seams to be getting very dirty very fast. Has anyone else had this happen know of a decent way of cleaning it off or should I bite the bullet and just rewrap it and epoxy it with a different color brown or black or olive drab? Its a knife for use and has been getting used a lot.

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Also when I start my new knife I am going to do a drop point hunter. I have figured out some of the terms and I found my "center" and put the pin holes in on it where it needs to go. I also tried to make the handle more even and more asteticly pleasing. Let me know what you think. The steel I am going to use for it is 1/8th 1080 steel at 1.5 inches thick and that is just over the thickness of the tallest part of the knife blank I am planning on using. I know the blade is going to be a little thin and I am sending it in for real heat treating and making a jig for the profiling. If you have any suggestions for it let me know thank you again.

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Your wood mock up has really nice lines and good flow. The handle looks comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. 1/8" thick steel is plenty thick and 1080 will make a good knife. I think you can go much higher with the grind however, at least halfway up the blade if not higher.
 
yeah when I do the jig I will bring it probably halfway up or 3/4 up I just want to see how the blade thickness is and go from there. It will be a flat grind but also a hunting knife so I do not want to remove to much from it but want it super sharp.
 
1/8 is plenty thick for a hunting knife. You will want to bring your grind up higher otherwise it will only act as a small wedge. It will not be a good slicer that way.
 
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