Need Help!!!

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I bought some kitchen knives ,and i want to make them into bushcraft knives. Any ideas:confused:
 
What kind of kitchen knives? All the kitchen knives I have seen have very thin blades because they slice instead of chop. Maybe a meat cleaver wood work? What do you want to do with the knives?
 
its like a steak knife but the back half is flat like a butter knife its used for chopping meats
an outdoors knife like your normal outdoors knife
 
the blades thicker than a steak and a butter knife its blade is as thick as my hunting knife
 
Grab a belt grinder, a couple of heavy-grit belts and a bucket of water to keep the edge cool. Grind until everything that's not the shape you want is gone?
 
Draw the shape of the knife you want on the kitchen knife. Reprofiling the tempered blade using files/sand paper will take forever. Access to a bench grinder/belt sander will increase you chances of finishing your project. Get a dust/respirator mask. get a full face shield. Wear hearing protection. Go slow, getting the blade too hot will ruin the temper. Did I mention go slow? Use the course wheel on a grinder to do the major profiling. Use the fine wheel to finish up. Then use sand paper to clean things up. The grit depends on how shiny you want the blade. If you are using a belt sander I'd start with 80 grit to do the main profiling (patience is a virtue). Then clean and polish with higher grits. I've found that 320 puts a satin finish on good 1095 and 600 puts a decent polish on it. Let us know how it turns out.
 
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