What's possible with crude tools

Chiro75

Chiro75

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Here's what can be done with patience, attention to detail and some minimal tools. For this knife I used:

hacksaw with bimetal blade
Dremel with sanding drum
$50 bench grinder with rough wheels
Drill press (cheap one, less than $100)
bastard file (12")
old sharpening stones
220, 320, 420 grit sandpaper

So, you can do a lot with a little! Get grinding!

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Looks like it needs some 'chiropractic adjustment ' to straighten it out !!! Having studied various things that were made hundreds of years ago it's always been obvious that it's the eye and the hands that guide the tool. I'm glad you posted this because many a newbie wants to know what kind of tools are needed.
 
That looks nice, Chiro-love the hamon.

Maybe you could do another with a tutorial for the new guys who want to start without much tooling...


Larry
 
Beautiful. It really is the craftsman not the tool. We tend to forget that sometimes! ;)
 
nice job on that one, i agree that there should be a little tutorial, or atleast a post on how newbies can go about making a given type of knife with minimal tools.
there's nothing wrong with a cheap drill press..... as long as you get a good chuck for it!
 
I think the chuck is cheap, too! A tutorial would be good, but I think you can find a good minimal-tools tutorial on the Jones Brothers website, if I'm not mistaken. I haven't seen it myself but I've heard it's good. Maybe this winter I could try to put something together... thanks for the kind words!
 
Great looking knife. I once met a bloke that worked in the bush. On his 4 wheel drive he bolted a vice and took a few files and some sandpaper. No Tv
plenty of time. you know what he made. Nice job too
 
A very nice looking knife. I've been thinking of doing one using files; maybe viewing this one of yours will get me off my rear and at it. Once more, very nicely done.

The minimal tool tutorial is located at: http://hossom.com/tutorial/jonesy/

Regards,
Greg
 
Very nice work, and a good example to newbies who think they need a lot of expensive tools. All expensive grinders and such do is speed things up a bit, but then you can screw up faster too!
 
Very nice. It is allways great to see what folks can do with very little. Keep up the good work.
As I all ways tell my blacksmithing students, "The craftsman makes the tools, the tools do not make the craftsman."
 
you used expensive sandpaper! japanese sword makers of old made do with files and 9 different kinds of stone. :)
 
Actually, I use three old Lansky stones for a lot of the finish. After draw filing to at least get the scratches going in the right direction, I go with the coarse, medium and fine Lansky stones in water, then 220, 430, 400 sandpaper. The stones work great! I wish I had a set of all nine. It would probably be a lot easier than the sandpaper!
 
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