How small will you go????

Clem Kadiddlehopper

Clem Kadiddlehopper

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Have you ever thought about how small you will go?:D

Seen this first photo on the web and it got me thinking?:rolleyes:

I help Todd Davison with his photos and web site. Todd has made 100's of miniature knives.
He would save his scrap steel and than turn it into knives. Doing this over the years I think helped him a lot grinding a smaller blade. So when he started making slip joint knives he was very good at grinding a smaller blade by hand.
So how small will you go?

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How about the wakizashi below my signature line? ....Not small enough?
I made a set of four knives a while back with each being identical at 1", .5", .25", .125". I'll look for a photo later. All had through tangs with threaded pommels except the .125" one (It's pommel wasn't threaded, just glued on the tang).
This is a small "coke bottle" folder with blacklip MOP scales and diamonds set in it. It walked and talked.
 

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Stacy,

That is small..... I would probably lose something like that....:rolleyes:
Seen a guy about 7 years ago in Vegas and that's all he made was small, small, small knives. He got a good price for the too....
Thanks for sharing.

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bladsmth said:
How about the wakizashi below my signature line? ....Not small enough?
I made a set of four knives a while back with each being identical at 1", .5", .25", .125". I'll look for a photo later. All had through tangs with threaded pommels except the .125" one (It's pommel wasn't threaded, just glued on the tang).
This is a small "coke bottle" folder with blacklip MOP scales and diamonds set in it. It walked and talked.
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You jewelers... I swear. I shake too much. My gyrations are .150 or better... :)
 
While such knives have a lot of 'cool' factor, personally they have little performance and/or practical use application so I don't make them. If I ever come across a colony of Hobbits, Fairies or Little People, then I'll rethink my position ;)
 
I totally agree that they have no use. I usually only make them for fun....but people keep buying them.
I am amazed that they sell for hundreds of dollars. I can sell a 3" katana for $300 ten minutes after they open the doors at a show, but have to wait a year until I find a serious buyer for a 30" katana at $1000.
 
They sell for thousands by the right maker, to the right collector, for the right piece.

I agree they have no practical application, but many many many things that are collectible don't. Honestly, I kind of prefer the collection of non-useful items over actual "tools" (of which I consider knives), since collected tools often never get to see the fruition of their purpose for existing, or in the case of antique tools like smithing equipment, get taken out of rotation for those that might put them to work.
 
these mini's blow my mind. the detail is incredible. I would have no idea where to start . I can see how they sell to collectors though you could collect hundreds and have them all in a nice little jewlery box !
 
Find that photo Stacy! .125"? I need to see that although I don't know if a picture will help. I still can't wrap my mind around that folder. Jewelers...
 
I found some photos of others, but haven't found that photo yet. It may be on the old computer.

Here are some ( a 1" to 1/4" four knife set is just right of the sword stick-pin handle):
 

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Here is the first and only mini I have made so far. Honestly it only took me about 45 minutes and was a lot of fun
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"I wonder what THE smallest knife in the world that was ever made?" - Don't know, but:

I made a Fairbairn-Sykes knife at .06" ( 1/16). The blade length was .04" - It was insane to do. I lost three blades dropping them in the work drawer. I had to make the knife in all metal on the end of a piece of piano wire......working with a bench microscope. When done I cut it off. The handle was etched with FC to make it black.
 
I know I sound like my daughter but, OMG! 1/16 is smaller than small. Did you use a 1/64 scale bench grinder? Lol
 
You are joking, but I have several small versions of the shop tools we use for making knives. I have a 1X10" Wolf belt grinder ( and belts from 80 to 4000 grit), and a couple mini watchmaker's lathes with collets down to .001". I have files in 6/0 that only have 1/2" of file surface. I have glasses that are made by Carl Zeiss with microscopic centers in the prescription lenses ( These are used in micro-surgery...you don't want to know what these cost). And my baby is a B&L 10-70 power articulated boom microscope to work under.
 
Its no secret I love minis, that's why I host the KITH evry year specifically for minis. If you go to the mini KITH thread in the stickies, the first page has links to years past and some cool minis made by various people here.

Here are some I have made..

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Same knife with hawk
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Last years KITH knife

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Photobucket is acting up for me right now, so I will post more later.


-Xander
 
bladsmth said:
You are joking, but I have several small versions of the shop tools we use for making knives. I have a 1X10" Wolf belt grinder ( and belts from 80 to 4000 grit), and a couple mini watchmaker's lathes with collets down to .001". I have files in 6/0 that only have 1/2" of file surface. I have glasses that are made by Carl Zeiss with microscopic centers in the prescription lenses ( These are used in micro-surgery...you don't want to know what these cost). And my baby is a B&L 10-70 power articulated boom microscope to work under.
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I can imagine. I have another product by Zeiss... lets me whisper in someone's ear from a looooooong way away. And it is clear as a bell. And was also $$$$. Thank goodness the fine taxpayers paid for it... lol. Some of the finest glass in the world IMHO.
 
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