Knives on the bench

[Justin Schmidt]

I don't have an image of it ground, but I actually have it profiled and one side of the blade flat ground, but a bearing went out on one of my platen wheels, and waiting on a replacement from OregonBladeMaker. I scaled my pattern a little too big so it's goes over the edge of the material so I ground it right to the line then scribed another line just inside of the edge and marked out the rest of the profile to get the exact shape I wanted and ground to that line. If I had a little more patience, would have waited till i went to work the next day I would have rescaled the pattern to the right side and saved a little work.

Wow I love that design man!

 

[Chad Michael]

Ah ha.. :thumbup: Hard to tell from the image. I am going to try may hand at a chisel grind on a Karambit I have planned for my brother. Only problem I'm running into, I can't drill the 7/8" finger hole. My drill press won't handle a bit that large. I have one I started, but I'm not happy with it. I took it as large as I could on the drill press and ground the rest finger hole out, and it's not so good. So I told him I wasn't going to embellish it like I wanted to and he can still have it but I'm going to make him a nicer one. I'm just going to put some simple micarta handles and plain brass pins on this one. When I grind the next one I'll get a machine shop to drill the hole for me cause I promised him the knife for his birthday, but missed the mark, and want to make good on it. I did get good practice in on the first one grinding the curved edge though, and what a chore that was. after that, I'll wait till I have the equipment to do it myself before making knives like this with large holes in the design.

I drill a 1/2" hole then do the rest with a dremel. Takes a lil patients but it works. Ring knives are very useful to law enforcement and military because you can shoot and hold your knife at the same time. Among other reasons.

 

[KnuckleDownKnives]

A bi-metal hole saw will do the job.

I'll have toe try that.

I drill a 1/2" hole then do the rest with a dremel. Takes a lil patients but it works. Ring knives are very useful to law enforcement and military because you can shoot and hold your knife at the same time. Among other reasons.

Yeah, tried that. My patience must not be that good.