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This is my first attempt at building a knife completely from scratch with only the meager tools at my disposal. So, any advise on the design or process is most welcome and much appreciated.
Quite a while back I had drawn out this design, but had to put it on the back burner to accommodate some of life's challenges. Then, in complete secrecy,
dear wife-o-mine gave me a birthday present of a 4'x 36" sheet of precision ground O-2 carbon steel ($108.00). And so it begins.....
I began by cutting out the basic shape using a mini-angle grinder(not pictured as dear wife-o-mine had the camera).
Once the basic shaping was done, I had to clean it up quite a bit using, first, my bench-top grinder for the flat and convex surfaces.
I then cleaned up the concave surfaces using three sizes of grinding wheels mounted on my drill press.... larger curves were done with the larger wheel....
Smaller/tighter curves were done with smaller wheels....
With the blade fully shaped and the edges clean and smooth I could them get a better "feel" of what adjustments were needed for pin placement and handle shape.
Next, I drilled out a few of the holes, and began filing out the lanyard notch on the butt of the handle. I need to get a 1/2" HSS drill bit to drill out the largest of the four holes in the blade.
All holes(except one) and lanyard notch are now roughly shaped and drilled out.
The next step is to finalize the grind lines for the blade edge then begin to grind then in using my bench grinder. That's the next chapter in the saga.
Quite a while back I had drawn out this design, but had to put it on the back burner to accommodate some of life's challenges. Then, in complete secrecy,
dear wife-o-mine gave me a birthday present of a 4'x 36" sheet of precision ground O-2 carbon steel ($108.00). And so it begins.....
I began by cutting out the basic shape using a mini-angle grinder(not pictured as dear wife-o-mine had the camera).
Once the basic shaping was done, I had to clean it up quite a bit using, first, my bench-top grinder for the flat and convex surfaces.
I then cleaned up the concave surfaces using three sizes of grinding wheels mounted on my drill press.... larger curves were done with the larger wheel....
Smaller/tighter curves were done with smaller wheels....
With the blade fully shaped and the edges clean and smooth I could them get a better "feel" of what adjustments were needed for pin placement and handle shape.
Next, I drilled out a few of the holes, and began filing out the lanyard notch on the butt of the handle. I need to get a 1/2" HSS drill bit to drill out the largest of the four holes in the blade.
All holes(except one) and lanyard notch are now roughly shaped and drilled out.
The next step is to finalize the grind lines for the blade edge then begin to grind then in using my bench grinder. That's the next chapter in the saga.
