I made one!

Nonprophet

Nonprophet

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So it was my mistake I can't post two identical threads on the site. I was asked to delete one but I can't figure out how so I'm going to change this one to make it entirely different than the other one. Here is the finished product only.




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still can't figure out how to delete an entire post. If someone would like to enlighten me it would be much appreciated!
 
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At the end of the day, there really is nothing quite like a nice piece of walnut as a knife handle or a gun stock. I like it.
 
Nice. I love seeing the process. Came out looking beautiful.
I may have missed it, but what kid of steel is it?
 
Very nice...I was wondering at first, because you kept running yourself down, how bad this was going to look; but it's awesome! Seriously nice.
How much $ vs time do you have in it?
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Bro, it looks better than good, I think it looks great. I don't know if you had access to a belt grinder, but the blade and grind looks fantastic.
 
Did not have a grinder so I bought it already basically ground. The very first picture is how it came to me. So I kinda cheated :)
 
Ok first let me say that if changing the thread was good enough then I don't want a mod to delete this thread. If I'm still violating an etiquette then go ahead. Ken himself said I can't post two the same and I hope that changing one so it's not identical is ok.

now, Russde, first I was unsure of how this first work would hold up to true knifemakers and I felt like a bufoon making this knife because of all the mistkaes in it. To me it's a basic first attempt and I see the flaws. I think if you count the material used to make it and not the equipment I had to buy to be able to do it there's probably $85 or 90 in it. I got the mosaic pins for free with the knife and the scales were relatively cheap but the blank itself was $65

Turbinium the steel is ATS 34 and my bad, I didn't post that part.
 
Russde, I forgot to answer the other half of your question. Because I made so many mistakes in sanding the blade and took so many trial and errors filing the handle to get it right (I should thank my wife here for her critical eye to tell me when things aren't quite as good as they could be) and having to learn on the fly I bet I have better than 60 hours in this blade not counting time I spent in front of this computer trying to figure out the answers to all of my questions as they come up. I would say that now that I have some idea I could probably (hopefully) do it in half that the next time. Once I get more and better tools I would like to think it doesn't take near that long but honestly I don't know what the real knifemakers spend as far as time on one knife start to finish.
 
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