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Roy, to me, that's the fun part of making knives, designing them. I use paper with a grid on it, 5 squares = 1". Get a good drafting pencil and a big eraser
I also bought some balsa wood at the hobby store. It is easy to carve prototype handles.
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I also bought some balsa wood at the hobby store. It is easy to carve prototype handles.
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Roy, I go to my local hardware store and get some large paint stirres (free) and start grinding away everything that does not look like a knife. This way you get to see how the knife is going to feel before you go wasting expensive steel. They are usually 1 1/4 inch wide, so when you go to order steel just order 1 1/4 inch steel and your all set.
Mark Hazen
Also buy a set of french curves at an office supply store. Great for blending the lines together. Also, once I get a design I like,either drawn or an actual finished knife, I place it on a copy machine. One copy for the file, one to cut out and paste to a piece of lexan. Profile the lexan on the 2x72, drill a hole in it, and hang it on a nail in the shop. I've even taken a knife that I really liked the lines of, reproduced it to full scale, 95%, 90%, etc.
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Roy-
When I first started making knives, I asked a maker if I could "maybe copy some patterns" very shyly as I was 16 the first time I set foot in a maker's shop.
He told me I could, but couldn't understand why I would want to. I realize now, that he didn't understand my wanting to copy anything, because that is one of the most distinct characteristics of your knives...
However, I didn't copy his, and later wished I had. It can be very hard at first to come up with something that looks like a good profile.
I think the biggest mistake by new guys (mine was) is to make the knife too big and wide. A knife should cut, and a slim profile will pretty much always do anything (other than a big-bellied skinner or ax).
So, you definitely need to read information left available to us all by the late Bob Engnath.
There is a wealth of information on pages that are left as his distinct foot-prints.
Click on this link, and it should take you there. You will also see several pages of patterns there, I hope they help you out Roy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~grind/BladesNStuff.html
I don't know if this link is the old one or not, but it should still get you there.
Good luck
Nick
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When I first started making knives, I asked a maker if I could "maybe copy some patterns" very shyly as I was 16 the first time I set foot in a maker's shop.
He told me I could, but couldn't understand why I would want to. I realize now, that he didn't understand my wanting to copy anything, because that is one of the most distinct characteristics of your knives...
However, I didn't copy his, and later wished I had. It can be very hard at first to come up with something that looks like a good profile.
I think the biggest mistake by new guys (mine was) is to make the knife too big and wide. A knife should cut, and a slim profile will pretty much always do anything (other than a big-bellied skinner or ax).
So, you definitely need to read information left available to us all by the late Bob Engnath.
There is a wealth of information on pages that are left as his distinct foot-prints.
Click on this link, and it should take you there. You will also see several pages of patterns there, I hope they help you out Roy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~grind/BladesNStuff.html
I don't know if this link is the old one or not, but it should still get you there.
Good luck
Nick
[This message has been edited by NickWheeler (edited 01-28-2001).]
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Hey guys, I saw where some of you mentioned making extra copies of you patterns on copy machines. I did this also until I was fooling around with one of the copies and thought it didn't look quite right. Sure enough when I put the origional pattern on top the copy was wildly off. Just a heads up to check your copies!-Guy Thomas
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Get french curves for sure! I take some graph paper and a stack of magazines and go looking. If I like a handle, I'll draw ith. Then I go looking for blade shapes, and stick them on the handle. Then I fiddle: finger cut outs, maybe a change in the blade shape, etc.
I'll figure out what general shape of knife I want to make (say 1" at the widest part) and then draw 2 lines 1" appart. As long as I stay in the lines, I'll do just fien when I buy 1" bar stock!
Good Luck.
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I'll figure out what general shape of knife I want to make (say 1" at the widest part) and then draw 2 lines 1" appart. As long as I stay in the lines, I'll do just fien when I buy 1" bar stock!
Good Luck.
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"Come What May..."