Hello,
today I wanted to share with you a story of how I screwed up, sort of. I was trying to make a camp knife. Made a sketch of my design, scribed my drawing onto some 80CrV2 and off I went to grinding my camp knife prototype....and it did not go too well, at least on my first try.
Before I tell you how I sort of messed up my Prototype here is a picture of what the camp knife design should look like as a reference. This is the second one I made, a 17,5cm long blade with a nice belly and a high saber grind:
(now I'm not saying this is a good camp knife design or anything, but it turned out exactly like I wanted it to turn out)
Most of the time when I try a new design I screw something up. This time I was just lazy, did not pay enough attention and did not scribe my center line correctly. Then I ground the tip to thin and I messed up freehanding the clip grind. I just ended up overcorrecting and making the clip bigger and bigger. So I ended up with a sort of bowie design with a ridiculously large clip grind:
It is about 1cm shorter than the other blade and has a tip that is probably too thin to work well for a camp knife and on the other hand is not stabby enough to be considered a good bowie knife. But I think it at least looks alright all things considered.
So the point I am trying to make, especially for new makers, is that even if you screw up you can end up with something kinda cool. Also if you pay attention to how you screwed up exactly, you can learn a lot.
Oh and If you are starting out and thinking about making a clip grind, don't try to do all the work on the grinder. Start out on the grinder, but finish it up with files.
today I wanted to share with you a story of how I screwed up, sort of. I was trying to make a camp knife. Made a sketch of my design, scribed my drawing onto some 80CrV2 and off I went to grinding my camp knife prototype....and it did not go too well, at least on my first try.
Before I tell you how I sort of messed up my Prototype here is a picture of what the camp knife design should look like as a reference. This is the second one I made, a 17,5cm long blade with a nice belly and a high saber grind:
(now I'm not saying this is a good camp knife design or anything, but it turned out exactly like I wanted it to turn out)
Most of the time when I try a new design I screw something up. This time I was just lazy, did not pay enough attention and did not scribe my center line correctly. Then I ground the tip to thin and I messed up freehanding the clip grind. I just ended up overcorrecting and making the clip bigger and bigger. So I ended up with a sort of bowie design with a ridiculously large clip grind:
It is about 1cm shorter than the other blade and has a tip that is probably too thin to work well for a camp knife and on the other hand is not stabby enough to be considered a good bowie knife. But I think it at least looks alright all things considered.
So the point I am trying to make, especially for new makers, is that even if you screw up you can end up with something kinda cool. Also if you pay attention to how you screwed up exactly, you can learn a lot.
Oh and If you are starting out and thinking about making a clip grind, don't try to do all the work on the grinder. Start out on the grinder, but finish it up with files.
Not a good day!
