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blood_constellation

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not really a skill, but i thought it'd be appropriate for this forum, because it's a knife designed for survival situations. it's one i've made in my back yard, looks kind of rough, because i dont have a good anvil...
the handle is wrapped in nylon. in a needed condition, you can undo the handle wrap and use the nylon string to strap the knife to a stick and make a harpoon/hunting spear. the hole along the blade's surface are connected by shallow fullers and form a system of blood groves. the little 'pretty thing' dangling from the hilt could be made into a cheap bait for fly fishing. =D

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Cool, look'n knife. I like the primitiveness of it. Not quite sure that I get the need for the holes and grooves, but to each his own. I agree with whitefoot too that you don't wanna accidentally cut yourself, I did something similar on my first knife, it looked good in the designing stages, but when I held it , I imediately saw that I could cut myself and had to dull part of my edge. I like the barb on top for use as a spear, that's cool. Looks good. If your into starting to make your own knives you might want to check out the knife makers forum too, there's lot's of good info there, and lots of helpful people.
 
Well, sounds like you made something useful for yourself using your own two hands. That's good! Keep it up. :thumbup:
 
yay, thanks for the positive comments, makes me happy to know yall liked it. =]
as for the holes and groves... well, in the designing stage, i wanted to make sure whatever animal i stabbed with it bleeds. i thought it'd be useful to have holes on the groves so in case the groves are blocked on one side, blood can go through the holes to the other side and keep coming out. not sure if that'll actually work, i think i've made the groves a bit too shallow... =\
well, practice makes perfect :D

and btw, i've dulled the bottom part of it this morning
 
Your critter isnt going to do a hell of a lot of bleeding till after you remove the knife , often ...

basic first aid stuff , if you got something stuck in ya , leave it there till you get to an ER or the ambos come , cos itll actually be plugging the hole and stopping the bleeding ...

my bro put a 9 inch boning knife into his thigh , didnt bleed a drop till he pulled it out ..

then it was dammed hard to stop .

animals are a bit the same , I think
 
ya, my hope for it the groves and holes in so it doesnt plug the veins up. i gotta find some way to test it... =\
the blade width is about 1 inch (the back of the blade isnt straight, as you can see) and the hook adds about half an inch
the steel is something i got out of home depot. its not very good knife steel, but i heard that if you super quench it, it ll become better. would be hard to break, and easily re-sharpenable on any old rock in the streams, but might not hold the edge long. so thats what im going to do, super quench it.
 
Careful!!!! Knifemaking is extremely addictive! I place it just under crack cocaine on the addiction scale. If you can find a used lawnmower blade (1080) you would get a better steel then mild. Mild has only a trace amount of carbon and even super quench can't harden what isn't there in the first place.

The lawn mower blade will not only harden to give you a better edge but it will allow you to pry with it also w/o bending. That will make you want to make a second and a third ..... it never ends.:D
 
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