My Bravo Kitchen Knife

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thatsaknife

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Have a look at my Bravo 1.25 inspired kitchen knife. It was a 12inch kitchen knife and now is a much less efficient kitchen knife but looks cool. Its 3mm at the spine and had a full flat grind. When I cut out the bravo the new knife including handle is flat ground. I then put a second flat grind because the new knife was way to thick at the edge because an inch was taken off the original height. No edge is on it until I drill the holes for handles. Thinking about using locust.
Any tricks on how to drill hardened steel? last time I did this I sent the knife to a machine shop to drill with carbide bits.
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I'm a little confused as to how that would be useful in a kitchen. There's no handle clearance. You would not be able to hold it properly, i.e. like this:

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brancron said:
I'm a little confused as to how that would be useful in a kitchen. There's no handle clearance. You would not be able to hold it properly, i.e. like this:

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This was my thought.

But, I'm glad the OP is excited about it :).
 
Sorry I reread my post and it is misleading. It was a bit of a joke really. I have used a Winco Chinese made stainless steel kitchen knife to make a Bravo 1 inspired knife. Here is a bushcraft inspired knife made from an exact same kitchen knife
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thatsaknife said:
Sorry I reread my post and it is misleading. It was a bit of a joke really. I have used a Winco Chinese made stainless steel kitchen knife to make a Bravo 1 inspired knife.
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I'm sorry, I did not read the post thoroughly. In fact, I just read the first sentence and then jumped to conclusions. What you did is pretty awesome!
 
thatsaknife said:
Sorry I reread my post and it is misleading. It was a bit of a joke really. I have used a Winco Chinese made stainless steel kitchen knife to make a Bravo 1 inspired knife. Here is a bushcraft inspired knife made from an exact same kitchen knife
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Ah, I got you now. Makes way more sense.

Nice work on the profile, looks pretty dang close to me :).

And I've never drilled hardened steel. But from what I gather, get a nice carbide tipped bit, go slow, and keep the piece cool enough to comfortably touch bare handed (usually this means dipping the piece in water, or lubricating it). Takes a long time, but its been done before. Drill presses make this much easier.

Good luck :).
 
thatsaknife said:
Sorry I reread my post and it is misleading. It was a bit of a joke really. I have used a Winco Chinese made stainless steel kitchen knife to make a Bravo 1 inspired knife. Here is a bushcraft inspired knife made from an exact same kitchen knife
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Real good work though, sorry if my first post was a bit sarcastic. :D
the wooden handles look good.
what oil did you happen to use to finish?
 
Thanks and dont worry bout sarcasm its all fun. The knives were on sale so i bought a bunch of them and been sanding and grinding for practice the steel is R2D2 or c3p0 ive never heard of it. The handle finish is tung oil rubbed in about 4 coats and finally polish with Johnsons paste wax
 
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