Oddball Knives?

Head knives,Blades for block planes ,Lathe tools ,Reamers ,etc..

Try making a pencil sharpener with a G-10 chassis.
Ive been trying to perfect a Barrel Knife .
That little leather handled folder thingy on Eric Lucy's site looks cool ,Im thinking of trying that right now (presuming Mr. Lucy does'nt mind ) I find inspiration from looking at what the old time cutlers did in places like Solingen and Sheffield.
Those guys made anything that was made out of steel and could cut !
 
eric brinkerhoff said:
Head knives,Blades for block planes ,Lathe tools ,Reamers ,etc..

Try making a pencil sharpener with a G-10 chassis.
Ive been trying to perfect a Barrel Knife .
That little leather handled folder thingy on Eric Lucy's site looks cool ,Im thinking of trying that right now (presuming Mr. Lucy does'nt mind ) I find inspiration from looking at what the old time cutlers did in places like Solingen and Sheffield.
Those guys made anything that was made out of steel and could cut !
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I don't mind, but be sure to credit L.T. and Dan from the now defunct Blind Horse. I drew my inspiration from their snap knapp. Theirs was repurposed mill saw blade steel and was a little big and unfinished for my taste, but excellent design for what it was. I am sure I have seen the same sort of thing before during my collecting years, and would only assume it has been done over and over as it is an idea that just makes sense.

Cheers. They made awesomely well received Christmas presents for some of my extended family... Kinda wish I would have kept one. But hey, can't keep one of everything...
 
eric brinkerhoff said:
Head knives,Blades for block planes ,Lathe tools ,Reamers ,etc..

Try making a pencil sharpener with a G-10 chassis.
Ive been trying to perfect a Barrel Knife .
That little leather handled folder thingy on Eric Lucy's site looks cool ,Im thinking of trying that right now (presuming Mr. Lucy does'nt mind ) I find inspiration from looking at what the old time cutlers did in places like Solingen and Sheffield.
Those guys made anything that was made out of steel and could cut !
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Had to look at Erics site again because I had somehow missed the leather foldy knife. Cool, but then I saw this...

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I know it doesn't fit the thread, but that is the coolest knife I think I've seen in a while. I'm not a big fan of damascus (ducks head) so I like to see carbon steel get the love it deserves with killer wood and fine accouterments.

Nice work on that one!
 
bladsmth said:
You don't find my stuff on the internet besides BF because I don't sell there.
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Well then how about some close up pictures of your work instead of the shots 3 feet away? It would be nice to see some of the detail work on your knives.
 
x2 on the close ups. I would really like to see the knife on the block of wood. to the far right.
 
Let's see...one of my first knifely projects was a few lemon rind cutters for a fancy shmancy bartender.
Another recent one was a purfling scraper for a ukelele maker.
 
I post close up shots regularly right here in Shop talk.
 

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If you think of other crafts and what tools they use you might get some ideas. The dining and culinary arts seem to have been most explored in this thread so far (pizza, cake, oysters, etc) but there are many other realms that could be explored.

  • Wood working: draw knives, spoke shaves, froes, chisels, whittlers (maybe a hollow handle with a collet to hold swappable blades), crooked or hooked knives, hatchets, axes, adzes, saws, etc...
  • Horticulture and agriculture: harvest knives (there are several styles), hori horis (a cool Japanese root cutting trowel like tool), hoes (conventional and stirrup), grafting implements, etc...
  • The world of the mariner: marlin spikes and fids, dive knives, harpoons, blubber slicers, etc...
  • Survival gear: hollow handled knives (stashing matches, fishing stuff, etc), sod and dirt cutters (shovels), window breaker/seat belt cutters, gigs and spears, arrows, darts, fleshers, choppers, etc...
  • Martial arts: all kinds of dramatic implements of maiming, torture, murder and mayhem across the various ethnicities and cultures of our world...
  • Medicinal implements...
  • Tailoring and seamstress'ing...
  • Sculpting and ceramics...
  • Etc, etc, etc...
Back to the kitchen: vegetable peelers and fruit reamers, star shaped multiple apple slicer and corer, ice picks and hooks, corn cob handles and cream corn makers, pastry blenders and pasta slicers, hand turned auger driven blades (meat grinders and vegetable slicer-shredders (pre-Cuisinart)), place settings and eating utensils (maybe not the spork though), cleavers, plunger style chopper mincers, etc...and why not graters?
 
That pizza cutter is off the hook. I guess it's for cutting pizzas in some dystopian future. I be Mad Max used a pizza cutter like that.

I'm all for oddball projects!
 
I've got some keychain box openers I made. I dont carry a knife at work and I kept using my keys to cut tape and open boxes... so I made a lil something. It looks like a narrow dog tag. Its chisel ground to a zero edge that's flattened on fine grit sand paper so it doesnt bite into flesh. Bouncing around in my pocket the edge gets a bit beat up, but that just seems to help its function lol (maybe I shoulda flattened with rough grit). It doesn't cut my hands any more than a new key does but it eats up tape and can cut cardboard in a pinch.
 
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stacy I have no idea how you make a mini that small so detailed. absolutely awesome. you must be a jewelry maker or something.
 
Thank you Strig for the complimentary nod and posting. That one was a bit of a favorite and hard to let go to the new owner... Hidden pins under the bookmatched scales BTW since we were just talking about the clean epoxy-only look.

Stacy's unbelievably lilliputian stuff kills me. I know Stacy, Page, and a couple others do jewelry too, but man that tiny stuff is killer. We had that micro-knife thread back in the summer that kept my jaw on the floor.
 
Strigamort said:
Had to look at Erics site again because I had somehow missed the leather foldy knife. Cool, but then I saw this...

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I know it doesn't fit the thread, but that is the coolest knife I think I've seen in a while. I'm not a big fan of damascus (ducks head) so I like to see carbon steel get the love it deserves with killer wood and fine accouterments.

Nice work on that one!
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Wow, is all i can say. I want :D
 
To echo Phil,

Around here in the good old Commonwealth we are history ga-ga. I was first in a blacksmiths presence at a historic homestead here. We recreated and fixed all the old tools; froes, draw knives, spoke shaves, broad axes, scythes, etc... We even poured pewter spoons on occasion. I still fix/restore a lot of old tools that tend to turn up on my door and send them on their way, but have contemplated what the market would be like for recreations. There are a lot of knick-knacky little non-functioning decorative pieces sold around here amongst the real McCoy... junk really... But I wonder if there is a market at all for real functioning pieces for the buff who just has to go real old skool sometimes. Anyone with any insight or do much of that sort of thing? (Only properly credentialed respondents please, don't want to get anyone warned... :)) I have seen individual pieces done here and there, but not en masse that I can recall.

And seriously guys, thanks. Made my week.
 
crank78 said:
stacy I have no idea how you make a mini that small so detailed. absolutely awesome. you must be a jewelry maker or something.
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Yes, I am a custom goldsmith. I have some pretty neat tools for doing very small work. My smallest knife to date is 1/16"...that is .060" long. It was an integral dagger.

Here is a past tutorial on doing minis :
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/766261-MINI-Knife-Tutorial-and-WIP
More info and photos in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1077400-How-small-will-you-go

I have done jewelry work for a long time, and have a pretty good reputation for small work detail. That has brought me some nice jobs in the past.... for people like the Harlem Globe Trotters, Super Bowl and World Series players, some well known opera singers, an ambassador and a sultan, and HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
 
Love the mini folder. Ty for digging them up i couldn't find the threads. I am going to have to try a mini someday. Maybe a 2in dagger. I couldn't imagine making a 1/16th knife tho. Amazing
 
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