Some blades, D2

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Dennis H

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Hello
Want to show some blades I made, ..or I had them made from my prototypes.

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The holes are all metric sizes, except for two corby rivet holes.
First is flat grind, two others hollow, thin grind. Comments are always welcome, ... also constructive criticism.

Dennis
 
hello

Here is one with a green micarta handle. Think it will be a good user for my sons moose hunting season. It is sharp.

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Dennis
 
I live in Finland. There are a few small knife making factories here. They are not familiar to these types of knives, and showed a great interest in this project.
Took me 16 months from the first drawings. A lot of fun though.
 
Dennis H said:
I live in Finland. There are a few small knife making factories here. They are not familiar to these types of knives, and showed a great interest in this project.
Took me 16 months from the first drawings. A lot of fun though.
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Sounds fun!

I want to do the same thing here in the US, so (if you don't mind) I want to ask you some questions about your project.

What kind of machinery was used to make the knives? They don't look like they were ground by hand.

Is there anyone is the US who knows of a shop that will make a knife from drawings? Is there anyone familiar with the machinery involved? Do they just use surface grinders?

thank you.
 
Machinery is many different belt grinders, before that milling machine or laser/water jet to make the blanks. Not ground by hand inte sense free hand, but one by one manually using jigs. I do no know about the us, the only thing is that you have to make many if anyone will take on the project. It will become cheaper and faster to take the drawings to a private blade maker and ask him to make them, I think.

btw Thanks for the comments.
 
Simple and no-frills users! My kind of knives as well. It's also nice to see a Finnish-executed full tang design.

BTW, your join date was in '99 and you only have 15 posts? You don't talk much do you? :D
 
BTW, your join date was in '99 and you only have 15 posts? You don't talk much do you? :D[/QUOTE]

Correct, I keep quiet until I have something to say :)

Regarding for sale. I suppose the forum is strict with these things, so I say I only need one knife myself.

No, I do not have any photo of the jigs. They are around 40 miles from where I live.

Compered to traditional scandinavian knives the fulltangs need more engineering thinking, more caliper use, exact drilling etc. That is quite nice.
In 2004 I visited the Blade show. I brought with me some very nice swedish handmade blades. Showed these to a famous american knife maker. He looked at them for a while at said: This is a lazy mans grind. Have often thought of that. The swedish blade maker is for sure not lazy, he is excellent. These are just different knife cultures. The american never thought the knives are meant for splitting wood. A hollow will not do the job in that case. On the other hand the thin hollow must be excellent for hunters, I think.

That was a little out of the theme.. and I have not talked so much earlier.
 
Hi Dennis.
you are typical Finn. "talking silver, silence gold"... hehe.

Nice blades, mate. Was they made in Kauhava?

Juha
 
sajuma said:
you are typical Finn. "talking silver, silence gold"... hehe.

Juha
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Sorry to be Off-topic, but I've often heard of this quality of the Most-Northern peoples. Sometimes I wish my own people would benefit from some golden and reflective silence :thumbup:

BTT. . .
 
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