- In need of a KNIFE MAKER for my design...

[Lspade]

I bet you'll find that once you have a necker on a lot, it will get used more than you expect. Sure, it may not be as a last ditch knife, but it'll see more use as a box opener then you can imagine

-d

OH yes! I currently wear a crkt ringer and sometimes I even wear my BM nim cub. I am fully comfortable wearing a neck knife during regular tasks but, for example, if I running and I take off my shirt I don't want a knife flopping around because ONE- it hurts when it smacks your chest and TWO- it looks ridiculous to the general public. My knife idea isn't much bigger than a dog tag.

Well, I figured it was a last ditch type affair.

A Poke some bastard mugger a bunch of times and run type deal.

G10 would work fine for such an application, and weigh almost nothing, and never rust...

If you want to actually have a useful knife, then use steel.

I do like the fact that it wouldn't weigh much and would NEVER rust but IF I am forced to use for survival I'd rather have a steel blade then a G10 one.

 

[Fellhoelter]

Fair enough.

I guess it all depends on what you are trying to survive...

Kill, skin, and butcher a coyote because you are stranded in the desert and managed to tackle a coyote..
Or, cripple a bad guy.

Steel will do it all.
A laminate wouldn't work so well on the coyote carcass cleaning, though it would be great as a slashing, poking, bad guy crippler...

 

[Destraal]

Have you given any thought to making it yourself? Something that small wouldn't be that time consuming and could even be fun for you.

Another word about G10, it's nonmetallic, so if you're the kind of person that wants to have a blade even in places with metal detectors, it will work for that. I highly recommend against doing that, and I never would, but for some that's a bonus.

 

[Lspade]

Have you given any thought to making it yourself? Something that small wouldn't be that time consuming and could even be fun for you.

Another word about G10, it's nonmetallic, so if you're the kind of person that wants to have a blade even in places with metal detectors, it will work for that. I highly recommend against doing that, and I never would, but for some that's a bonus.

Oh I would LOVE to make this myself!!! When I was building cabinets at an old job I loved playing with the table belt sander and turn metal bars into little shanks . I have tons of tools like drills/jigsaws/rotarytools but they are not the right kind for making a knife. I just moved into an apartment so I no longer have access to a work bench, table vise, or drill press <-- all which are pretty important in terms of making a knife.

 

[Destraal]

Funny story, I live in an apartment too actually. I don't mean the nice kind of apartment either, I mean on campus apartments. What I've done is mount a small vice on a piece of plywood. From there I can clamp it to my desk whenever I want to do knife work and put it away when I don't need it.

The drill press is a slightly more pressing issue (hah) though. While not 100% necessary over a hand drill, I can't stand trying to drill a straight hole without one. Luckily my family lives only 15 minutes away from the college I'm at so I leave my drill press there. However, if I needed to I could easily fit it in my apartment as well. One of those <$100 drill presses will go a long way and hardly take up any room.

So in addition to a vice and drill press, all you'd really need is files, sand paper, and a hacksaw. A rotary tool like a dremel would be convenient too, could do away with the hacksaw in favor of cutoff wheels.

Granted, I prefer to use the grinder and bandsaw that I have at my parents home, but the fact remains that I could do this stuff without those power tools if I needed to.