Home Made Knife Making

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I been using knives for well over 40 years for butchering, filleting and etc.

Thinking of making my own survival knife. Here a few ideas i'm tossing around...


Homemade Knife making from a saw blade - YouTube

how to make a survival knife by hand - YouTube

 

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I am a hobby knife-maker.....I do not forge my own blades though....I use blade blounts....but I do all the finishing and I make my own scales.....I also rebuild old knives.

A couple pics.

This was the very first knife.....a french trapper knife called a "Le Coteau"

I also have/use a 4 bench belt sander and a drill press....and a grinder.....and I polish with wet/dry sand paper and a wheel of rags.

 

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that is one cool knife bro...

i'm going to start with some old knives first and cleaning them up and etc...maybe new handles

my son and i are going to hit a few garage sales or auctions and try and find some knives in need of some TLC.

i'll post some pics as soon as we get some candidates.

 

[Eastside]

that is one cool knife bro...

i'm going to start with some old knives first and cleaning them up and etc...maybe new handles

my son and i are going to hit a few garage sales or auctions and try and find some knives in need of some TLC.

i'll post some pics as soon as we get some candidates.

Thanks.....as much work as you put into em....its nice to get a compliment.

Yup....post pics.

When I was a kid....we used to search junkpiles on farms for good pieces of iron and steel to turn into knives/swords/tomahawks/spears.....we would put an edge on them and call it good....they were not pretty but primitive functional....I still have a tomahawk that I made when I was 10.

Here is the last knife I made...curly maple scales.

 

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I like it for sure

Have you tried making blades from old circular saw blades? as shown on the one utube video...that would be the way to start for me i think, where no forging is needed.

my cousin has my grandpa's old blacksmith shop-everything needed for forging, but he is in Texas, I'm in Missouri.

The circular saw blades would prolly be my ticket in once I get a model to make.

 

[Eastside]

Have you tried making blades from old circular saw blades? as shown on the one utube video...that would be the way to start for me i think, where no forging is needed.

my cousin has my grandpa's old blacksmith shop-everything needed for forging, but he is in Texas, I'm in Missouri.

The circular saw blades would prolly be my ticket in once I get a model to make.

Nope....I buy the 440 carbon steel blade blunts....but that is a good idea....I have also seen RR spikes heated red hot and hammered out into a blade....my great grandpa over in Germany was a blacksmith....that is really awesome that your grandpa's forge is still around......that forging is hard work....

 

[Eastside]

Double-Wheel Hollow Grinder - YouTube

 

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You read my mind!

On the drive home last night in between qso's i was thinking of hollow grinding...how to do it more uniform,or getting a machine...

I have an old antique grinding stone, that you sit behind and pedal to sharpen garden tools and etc but it gets too hot for knives without cooling it down some how.


thanks for posting that.

 

[Eastside]

On the drive home last night in between qso's i was thinking of hollow grinding...how to do it more uniform,or getting a machine...

I have an old antique grinding stone, that you sit behind and pedal to sharpen garden tools and etc but it gets too hot for knives without cooling it down some how.


thanks for posting that.

Yeah...those old grindstones are neat.....when I was a kid they had one out on a friends farm.....someone had cut a part of a tire and stuck it under the grindstone and would fill it with water so the bottom half would dip in the water.

 

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Great Idea

Thanks for that tire tip, i had been thinking a small metal pan.

Surprisingly those old stone wheels put a great edge on garden tools, axes, and machetes.

I have tried it on some knives and works good too other than you can melt and or distemper the thinner metal,

but I will give it a try with some water and use for hollow grind.

 

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Thanks for that tire tip, i had been thinking a small metal pan.

Surprisingly those old stone wheels put a great edge on garden tools, axes, and machetes.

I have tried it on some knives and works good too other than you can melt and or distemper the thinner metal,

but I will give it a try with some water and use for hollow grind.

You can also use your bench belt sander to put an edge on a blade.

Enjoy the hobby.......join some internet knife forums....see the knives other talented knife makers are making.....enjoy the hobby.

FYI....old lawn mower blades are fun.