Making knives with blade blanks. Show your stuff!

[JTB_5]

I'm getting into doing some knife making projects and am curious to know what folks around here have used with success.

So far I've helped my son make a dagger with some cheap damascus steel and a couple of matched pieces of wood; and I've made one myself with a Morakniv blank and a block that I hollowed a hole in.

Anyone else work on these kinds of projects? If you have sources of materials you recommend, please PM me, but for the thread I'd love to see what work others have done and how you did it.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Cool thread idea

 

[Hickory n steel]

Dexter Russell Green river belt knife blade I handled in oak.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Wish I had the ability to share photos.

I've done a few, recently made my brother a little fox scalping knife with antler scales from a red stag I shot, made my wife a bread knife with fiddleback blackwood and my father inlaw a filleting knife in messmate burl.

Just took delivery of some steel to start making my own blades. Have some 12c27 and 1085.

 

[Old Biker]

A couple of Mora blade blanks. The top ones handle is made up of purple heart, maple and jatoba. The bottom one is walnut.

Two more with antler handles.

Three Baryonyx Grimalkin blades. With Black locust, Jatoba and mallee burl.

A Buck paklite with osage orange.

O.B.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

I need to try this.

It looks like a lot of fun.

 

[fishface5]

Not a blade blank per se, but I rehandled a 1311 in micarta

 

[Just Tom.]

Here are a couple of my amateur/hack re-handle jobs:

Do folding knives count?

For a while the plastic-handled Okapis were easily available and around $10 each, so I made quite a few of those. There are more than just these, and I also gave a bunch away. Most are made from salvaged bits of wood:

A lot of these were made before I had any proper work place, or even a vise. I would clamp things to a folding workbench or to the wooden railing on my back porch to work on them.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

@justThats Great mate, for me getting fixed blades down pat is a warm up to folders which is what I'd really love to eventually do.

 

[waynorth]

Here are a couple of my amateur/hack re-handle jobs:

Do folding knives count?

For a while the plastic-handled Okapis were easily available and around $10 each, so I made quite a few of those. There are more than just these, and I also gave a bunch away. Most are made from salvaged bits of wood:

A lot of these were made before I had any proper work place, or even a vise. I would clamp things to a folding workbench or to the wooden railing on my back porch to work on them.

Tony Bose started out on his kitchen table!!

 

[meako]

Not a blank I guess but a rehandle job on a Sheffield carver that had fayx bone..now antler...It resides with my Son in NZ...

 

[meako]

Those RR kits are worth having a go at...change out the handle wood for something decent.

 

[dantzk8]

I've rehandled this KJ Ericksson 20 years ago with a piece of ash from my pile of heatwood. 5,1/4 inches long. The wood hasn't been treated.



Dan.

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

My mora, made it with a thin handle.

 

[NWFRS]

Those Mora blanks are amazing. I literally just finished number two today.

 

[lentuk]

 

[JTB_5]

I was hoping this thread would draw out some talent. You guys have made some amazing knives.

 

[black mamba]

I put some book-matched walnut on this 440C rendition of the old Schrade Sharpfinger.

 

[JTB_5]

What methods are you all using to put your knives together?

My first hidden tang was an experiment in making do. I had a hand drill with drill bits, a chisel I borrowed from my neighbor, a 1x30 sander from harbor freight, some sandpaper, and some mineral oil to finish it off. It was hardest to get the hole straight and deep enough, as you can see by how my blade is sitting a little too low in relation to the spine and sticks out farther from the handle than a normal Mora would. It is aesthetically awful, but I do like that it will be easier to sharpen and puts the edge of the blade more forward in relation to the hand when gripping the knife. Some mistakes can be fortunate.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I rehandled a Ka-Bar Parangatang with Becker handles,
turned it into something magical