Please make me this knife!

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Blade shape should be like this:
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Just have the tip come up a little more
It should be made out of o1 or 13c26 or 1095, hardened to 61-62rc. Blade thickness of 2mm and a blade angle of 18 degrees (scandi grind).

Handle should be like this:
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Blade length:4.5" width:1"

I'd like for the handle to swell a bit in the middle.
Price max:$170
I'll make the sheath if you can't in that price range.
If there's any info that I left out, ask.
Edit: don't care about wood type, and raised budget $40

Thanks
 
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Is this your way of looking for a knife maker....or did You mean to send someone a message.....? (either way, its okay....)

Top knife looks great.
 
I think your best bet might be a beginning maker, they'd probably appreciate getting paid to practice and you'd get a good value.

I can say that probably 90% or more of my blades, $85 would not even break even on materials cost, let alone labor or shipping, and I don't know if you really could call me a high end maker.

I might suggest that if you're willing to supply the handle material, you'd be much more likely to find a semi-proficient maker willing to supply a finished carbon steel blank and slap your scales on it for you. They might even have an old blank hanging up they could regrind for you and make a quick buck on. You can get decent looking professionally stabilized scales for quite cheap if you aren't too choosy and are willing to see the potential in "budget" pieces.

I believe there is a "work request" area in the knifemaker's subsection. The knifemakers section also has a materials area, and if that fails you have auction sites which can definitely net some cheap gems.
 
Nathan, as mentioned you are cutting it a little thin at $85. Although the knife is no frills and pretty basic, decent steel as mentioned, specific heath treat parameters and good wood for a specific shaped handle made by any competent blade smith or stock removal maker would go double or triple your expressed budget. (or more). The sheath alone would also exceed your total budget from me.

Given your budget, I think you might do better to look at factory produced knives that (almost) meet your specs.

Good luck and come back often!

Paul
 
Nathan, as mentioned you are cutting it a little thin at $85. Although the knife is no frills and pretty basic, decent steel as mentioned, specific heath treat parameters and good wood for a specific shaped handle made by any competent blade smith or stock removal maker would go double or triple your expressed budget. (or more). The sheath alone would also exceed your total budget from me.

Given your budget, I think you might do better to look at factory produced knives that (almost) meet your specs.

Good luck and come back often!

Paul

I was kind of thinking but wasn't sure about saying, I think there are some pretty darn nice custom-like factory knives that could be had for dirt cheap second hand, and $50-75 is not a completely unheard of price for a basic reprofile and regrind.

If you bought an inch longer than you wanted, the maker would have plenty of room to reprofile to your desire, and as long as they didn't overheat the blade, you'd probably end up with better steel and HT than a beginning maker using the cheapest steel possible.
 
I keep looking for a Randall style bird & trout blade blank. I will probably always be a knife "builder" as opposed to a knike "maker", meaning I don't see myself forging and tempering my own blades. There are some very nice hand forged blanks out there to start from.
 
A quality knife like that is going to run you quite a bit more than even $130... especially with those steels. For me, the material cost would end up in the $40-50 range minimum, but labor is where your costs are, and a novice maker will not be able to properly heat treat any of those steels, so you'd have to pay to have it shipped out for HT, as well. so just to put it into perspective, ~$50 materials, $12HT (excluding shipping), give it say 15 hours to make, thats a labor cost of $4.50/hour; and you get what you pay for.
 
Nathan, you emailed me, but you have it set to not receive emails, you may want to fix that.

I don't have any of those steels on hand, but I worked up what it would cost to make this with 1/8" 1084, I'd say your knife costs $200.

Sorry, I don't have enough free time now to make it, but good luck with your search.
 

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