old file, crappy neck knife

Burchtree

Burchtree

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I by no means a knifemaker, but I like to mess around with it. Made this the other night while I was treating another blade. I annealed an old file, ground, treated it and slapped on some "plastic" slabs stolen from an old boker knife. Still needs a lot of work, but thought you guys might like to see it.
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Mike! You got the BUG! Now you are forever hooked. I've seen worse first knives, And You aren't done yet.Like Red Green says,"Im pullin' for ya, we're all in this together!" Welcome aboard, Mike,knifemaker.
 
I have never seen one like it. Looks like it may go well as a dive knife. I recon it would slip an abalone of a rock real well.

It looks well made keep it up.
 
Thanks for the kind words. I polished up the blade, cut some thumb notches in the back and slimmed down the back end last night. I also made myself a form-fitting slim kydex sheath (my first). It turned out well, and I wore it around my neck later that night like a proud papa.
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! This is what I like to see. Now I can say "Good for you! Yeah, it looks pretty rough but I bet it cuts great. You'll get better with time." I don't have to break into tears because some overachiever posted pics of his first knife, a perfectly flat ground to the fileworked spine, snakewood handled, damascus bowie with engraved gold guard and pommel inlayed with rubies. Hah! You're the kinda knifemaker I wanna know.
 
hahaa, I'm with Disco Stu, though I think this neck knife still looks better than my first knife. oh well, it serves well doing kitchen duty now. Don't ask why I need a finger groove in a kitchen knife though. :)
 
Alright John, my first:

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I wish I had left it like that. The heat treat was perfect for the blade. I had a hell of a time heating it up with a torch (all I had at the time) so I only got about a half inch of the edge up to critical, some places less. The thin point kept bending when I did something silly like throw it. It actually had a nice looking hamon after etching too. When I got a forge I heat treated the whole blade. Well, next time I threw it, the tip broke instead. Twice. Now, it's considerably shorter and even uglier.
 
That puppy looks like it could do some serious slicing!
 
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