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I just finished up this odd knife. It has a Magnacut blade and spring, titanium liners, and ultem (fancy plastic) scales. I jigged the scales except for the bolster and shield areas. Those I polished as well as I could to make them translucent. Then I jeweled the titanium liners under the translucent parts so you could see them, until they get all scratched up at least. It is pretty light weight (2.1 ounces for a 3.5" blade). The aesthetics don't really do it for me, but I thought it would be fun to try something strange. Ignoring the aesthetics, the knife is really nice. Great action.
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Sean Yaw said:
I just finished up this odd knife. It has a Magnacut blade and spring, titanium liners, and ultem (fancy plastic) scales. I jigged the scales except for the bolster and shield areas. Those I polished as well as I could to make them translucent. Then I jeweled the titanium liners under the translucent parts so you could see them, until they get all scratched up at least. It is pretty light weight (2.1 ounces for a 3.5" blade). The aesthetics don't really do it for me, but I thought it would be fun to try something strange. Ignoring the aesthetics, the knife is really nice. Great action.
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I vote for this knife as coolest knife in the world! It's really thrilling to see!
 
All of those qualities give it such an old school futuristic vibe in my opinion! Looks like it was made in the forties or something, by someone way ahead of their time!
 
ok my first two knives... lot's of learning er mistakes ;) but i enjoy the process. the blades need cleaned up a bit yet and a final sharpening.
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i really like how the ironwood looks when you finish it, zebrawood i was able to source a piece for like $10 that was enough material to do do 5 knives so used that for the other (bigger knife).
 
vikingGoalie said:
ok my first two knives... lot's of learning er mistakes ;) but i enjoy the process. the blades need cleaned up a bit yet and a final sharpening.
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i really like how the ironwood looks when you finish it, zebrawood i was able to source a piece for like $10 that was enough material to do do 5 knives so used that for the other (bigger knife).
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Good first attempts!
Try rounding the edges of your handles a bit, they'll be more comfortable. A good rule of thumb when designing handles is to try to make them kinda like an elongated "egg" shape.

If you chopped the handle in half and looked at it from the end, the fat end of the "egg" would be the spine and the narrow part would be the blade.

Does that make sense? I tend to ramble...
 
A.McPherson said:
Good first attempts!
Try rounding the edges of your handles a bit, they'll be more comfortable. A good rule of thumb when designing handles is to try to make them kinda like an elongated "egg" shape.

If you chopped the handle in half and looked at it from the end, the fat end of the "egg" would be the spine and the narrow part would be the blade.

Does that make sense? I tend to ramble...
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yup, the shorter one especially, though it's surprisingly comfortable in your hand. I just need to master sharpening these to a final edge, I can hack through a 2x4 with them now without any damage to the edge but they aren't shave your arm hair sharp ;)
 
vikingGoalie said:
yup, the shorter one especially, though it's surprisingly comfortable in your hand. I just need to master sharpening these to a final edge, I can hack through a 2x4 with them now without any damage to the edge but they aren't shave your arm hair sharp ;)
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There could be a couple reasons for that. One is, generally getting a really thick behind the edge knife, sharp is just harder than doing the same as a thinner blade. Also, generally it's easier to get s very crisp apex on very hard steel.

But if you want those knives to be able to chop, then the thickness, and hardness you have now is fine. Just know it will be a bit more difficult to get them to the same level as something thinner, without cutting down on bevel angle, and showing a huge edge bevel.

If your goal is a tough chopping knife, sounds like you got it.
 
I really enjoy when I do this .....................it was work rest on one grinder several years , enough !
Enough steel for warnie knife :)
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10mm ???

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not any more

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almost there

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done :)
4 mm on spine
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I will use one pin in handle , that one in middle of course .Other two would be hidden because for back one I will need to drill hole in HSS steel which I don t like to do on tapered tang .

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How you would know that hole is drilled straight on tapered surface ? Just push that piece of steel under tang till drill bits don t slide on side ...done !

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Guys, how should we call this kind of laminated steel ? DUO MAI maybe ? 🤣
 
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