New Kiridashi Design

Stark Knives · Jan 11, 2015

I've wanted to make a kiridashi with a bottle opener for a little while and came up with this design. Do you guys have any input on how the opener part would work? I'd like to make a mock up too but am not sure how to do it. Is there any way to print out this design on a piece of paper that I could cut out to the exact dimensions I have here? I've printed off of my CAD design but it blew the size up when I did.

These were going to be AEBL by the way...

Utican · Jan 11, 2015

Looks good, maybee you could make the the angle of the cutting edge more acute. As for making a copy of it, I use i-pad to blow it up to whatever size I want (I use caliper to set the size) and then place a piece of paper over the screen and trace with #2 pencil. Works like a charm. I like it!

Stark Knives · Jan 12, 2015

Thanks man! I'll try that out.

zhyla · Jan 12, 2015

With semi large hands like mine I'm a little concerned that I'm going to open up my palm along with my beer. Can you put the opener on the spine close to the pointy end?

Stark Knives · Jan 12, 2015

Well the idea was to have a sheath for them that you would have on when opening bottles. I think that should take care of that problem.

ernestrome · Jan 15, 2015

Erdbeereis said:
Well the idea was to have a sheath for them that you would have on when opening bottles. I think that should take care of that problem.

I do not think you are giving people, ones with beer in particular, their due in terms of ingenuity in hurting themselves. I'd be worried about cutting myself with that too.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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HSC /// · Jan 15, 2015

this doesn't relate to your question...
but I like nominal sizes always (if possible)

4.2524 ------> 4 1/4"
.8614 -------> 7/8"

but it's your design, if you have a need for those specific sizes, so be it

tommywoh · Jan 15, 2015

if you have adobe illustrator what I do is export it as dxf or dwg file then open it in illustrator

Utican · Jan 16, 2015

Where is this thing? Pics please

Stark Knives · Jan 16, 2015

hsc3_90293 said:
this doesn't relate to your question...
but I like nominal sizes always (if possible)

4.2524 ------> 4 1/4"
.8614 -------> 7/8"

but it's your design, if you have a need for those specific sizes, so be it

There's not any need for these sizes, it's just as close as I could get with the program.

Utican said:
Where is this thing? Pics please

The pic is working for me... I'll try here.