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So the guy that was suppose to weld up my base for my saw backed out because he insisted that it was going to break. Being that I don't have welding gear and am not a very good welder I took it upon myself to make a solid ghetto base.
The materials I had:
Total build time about 2 1/2 hours and the results are very solid. I needed to test it out and had a piece of 13/16 5160 left over from my first knife build and the idea of making a couple of kiridashi, so the first thing I mad with it was a rudimentary push stick for safety, then I attacked the steel. the ghetto base stood tall and proud and never showed any flex, and the saw chewed through the steel with easy. Then I broke out my little 1X30 grinder and ground in the rough bevel on the kiridashi. I know have a kiridashi ready to be sanded to HT level, and a upright metal cutting band saw and everything took about 3 hours. I am going to drill a couple holes in the tang of the kiridashi and if its not raining when I get back I will take and post a couple of picks of all three of today's creations.
Who says you need fancy tools and tons of time and space to make a knife?
The knife
The materials I had:
- 24"X18"X5/8" plywood
- a strip of 2"X3/16" mild steel about 40" long
- A handful of assorted bolts and screws
- A beat up old circular saw
- A hacksaw
- A drill
- A hammer
- Assorted drill bits
- A philips screw driver
- A 10mm wrench
- A 5mm allen wrench
- And a vise
Total build time about 2 1/2 hours and the results are very solid. I needed to test it out and had a piece of 13/16 5160 left over from my first knife build and the idea of making a couple of kiridashi, so the first thing I mad with it was a rudimentary push stick for safety, then I attacked the steel. the ghetto base stood tall and proud and never showed any flex, and the saw chewed through the steel with easy. Then I broke out my little 1X30 grinder and ground in the rough bevel on the kiridashi. I know have a kiridashi ready to be sanded to HT level, and a upright metal cutting band saw and everything took about 3 hours. I am going to drill a couple holes in the tang of the kiridashi and if its not raining when I get back I will take and post a couple of picks of all three of today's creations.
Who says you need fancy tools and tons of time and space to make a knife?
The knife
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