Knifemaker in training! Pics Added, Here ya go Matt

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so I had a buddy come up this afternoon. He wanted me to make him a knife but I wanted him to do it! He came up today and we started from scratch, he drew it out, profiled, normalized, and flat ground. He did a great job, I only had to clean up the grinds a little bit. I showed him heat treating and tempering and it was getting late so he had to get home. I will finish it tomorrow and put handles on for him and post up some pics. It was really neat seeing someone passionate about knifemaking and walking them through the process. Tackett, it was my pleasure bro!

Here it is Matt, still have to do multiple coats of oil to bring out the figure and close the grain. Hope you enjoy it, I did.
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Chris,

That's waaaaay cool on your part.........:thumbup:. Nice to see that you extend yourself like that......buddy or not.

Good friends are hard to come by and even harder to keep. I don't think that you likely have either problem........;).

Good for you..................
 
Magnumb, Im sure that most makers would do it. If it wasn't for Bill doing the same thing for me I would never be making now. There is a cool feeling seeing somebody make their first knife. You know it will stick with them the rest of their lives and get used like crazy. Hopefully he can show it off a little too.
 
It comes as no surprise to me that Bill has done so as well...............with you or others. It's a great gesture on both your parts and any other person in any field to voluntarily mentor another person who shows interest in one's sport, hobby or career. Sure, some other knife makers probably extend themselves as you and Bill have, but not all and possibility less than you'd think. But no matter, it is what you and Bill do and have done and I expect will continue to do............that's sayin' something.

Not enough of that good stuff going around, but what goes around...........well, you know.........;).

Keep up the good work......and that doesn't mean just the knife making...........:thumbup:.
 
Pics added. Hope you like it Matt
 
Awesome!! you have no idea how long i"ve wanted to do that. Been dying to see it all day. I appreciate the schooling for sure KFU. i can't wait to get my hands on it and put it to use this sept. im thrilled man. thanks again for sharing the knowledge. Its one thing to own a nice knife, i know now its altogether different to have a hand in creating it. im hooked....:D
P.S. BA i turned down the suckers!!

"sometimes i find myself in the middle of nowhere, but sometimes in the middle of nowhere... i find myself.
 
Glad you like it man. I used that walnut burl you thought was cool, not the crotch. I have a ton of it and have never used it. Its killer! Itll take a little more work due to the voids in the burl but man when its done! Pics don't even come close to showing how nice it is. So are you saving for a grinder yet???;)
 
Yea man absolutely, that street howitzer i had yesterday is on the market as first step toward a grinder. i can't believe the turn out on that blade. I gotta get my garage transformed now.
 
That's really cool Chris, congrats Tackett. I'm afraid, I'll fall victim to a new addiction if I tried as well.
 
KFU, I know this is your thread, but I have to send kudos to BA, because if he had not taken you under his wing for a little while, your friend might not have had this chance to do his own knife, and then he still would have that "street howitzer" . . . . (lmao) . . must be a Tenn. thing . . . . :D
And KFU, congrats to you as well buddy, for passing along this bit of knowledge to the next generation. And BA, bet you are as proud as a new papa in uh, uh, hmmn, well uh (insert help from Gnarly here) . . . . . . . ;)
Congratulations to all of you, the best of the best . . . .
Be safe.
 
ok these are by no means the quality of kfu and ba's knives, but heck im trying here. Its just fun to do. So fun the fiance is now rolling her eyes every time i head out in the garage!!!
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That old machete turned out good man, looks like my Parang! Bring em over and we will sharpen them up real good. I hope that Wenge turned out nice.
 
Chris, a simple woodworkers trick for filling small voids in open grain wood is to "wet sand" with the first flood coat of oil.
This fills the pores without actually concealing grain if you use a wet dry paper in the same grit as your final sanding before you start with the finish.

Matt - nice work, looking forward to seeing how your work progresses with time.
 
Thanks Vik! I actually did that after the pics but I like to leave a little open grain on handles for some reason. Ive done it alot on old rifles that Ive refinished over the years. Ive tried grain fillers but good old wet sanding does the trick better, but takes alot more time! I bet I put 20 or 30 coats of Truoil on those stocks.
 
been playing a little more here.
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what do ya guys think? been just using what i have. i don't have all the right stuff yet. but i gotta start somewhere....since kfu got me started that is. :D
 
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