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So I had a boring day woke up cleaned house, went over to the shop and picked up some of my knife making tools, played on the computers for a while and drew up this model of a set of bike cranks for an animation I am working on.
Then I decided to get to work on my next knife project, a bushcraft knife based on the Ray Mears knife.
I am making it out of a nice piece of 3/16" O1 I got from Knifemaker.ca. It will have a scandi grind on it the blade length is 4 5/8" handle is 4 15/16". I worked on the design about 3 weeks ago and had it saved on my computer just waiting for the steel to come it. This will be knife number 5 and the sister knife will be number 6. Things definitely move faster with some power tools, well one. I cut it out roughly with a hacksaw and cleaned up the profile on a cheap 30X1 belt grinder. I need to do a little more work on the finger groove with a file to get a constant arch, but what you are looking at there is the result of 2 hours of work from printing up the template to current state. Next comes the fun part of filing in the grind and plunge
Then I decided to get to work on my next knife project, a bushcraft knife based on the Ray Mears knife.
I am making it out of a nice piece of 3/16" O1 I got from Knifemaker.ca. It will have a scandi grind on it the blade length is 4 5/8" handle is 4 15/16". I worked on the design about 3 weeks ago and had it saved on my computer just waiting for the steel to come it. This will be knife number 5 and the sister knife will be number 6. Things definitely move faster with some power tools, well one. I cut it out roughly with a hacksaw and cleaned up the profile on a cheap 30X1 belt grinder. I need to do a little more work on the finger groove with a file to get a constant arch, but what you are looking at there is the result of 2 hours of work from printing up the template to current state. Next comes the fun part of filing in the grind and plunge