Knife Making

[CluelessKai]

My new chopping knife that my son made.

 

[CluelessKai]

This is the first knife he made himself.

I don't remember the kind if knife it is but he had to make a sheath for it also. The handle is antelope.

 

[Patchouli]

No one ever taught our son and one of his friends how to make knives, but make knives they did. They were about 14 and did that all summer.

 

[CluelessKai]

My youngest has built his own forge, made an anvil out of railroad rails, bought some tools. He loves blacksmithing, so he went for a week last summer and studied under a blacksmith. Mostly kitchen tools and a few decorative things.

 

[joel]

I have a friend who made stock removal knives, not forged.
So the shape, profile & edge, as well as the type of steel are step one.
Heat treat, drawing & cleaning are step 2
Then handle & finishing is 3.
He care nothing about forged metal.
I have a few of his knives.

 

[Swing]

That's neat about making your own knife.

 

[Meerkat]

Hubby made a pocket knife and a large machetee out of automobile'truck' leaf spring 24 years ago .
Cut it out, lots of grinding, soaked it in oil for 180 degrees overnight and polish. Both are still like new and we used that machetee on small trees and vines here for years clearing trails and and saving vine covered trees in this sub tropical jungle we moved onto that had'nt been lived n since 1957 .

 

[hiwall]

At yard sales I buy heavy kitchen knives if they are cheap. I remove the handles and totally reshape the blades then make new handles for them changing them into hunting knives. I also then make leather sheaths for them. I have a stockpile of them and will use them for barter if things ever "go bad". For now this just gives me something to do to pass the time. The leather I get from yard sales also, usually from well made leather purses that I dis-assemble. I never pay more than a dollar for either a purse or heavy kitchen knife.

 

[Patchouli]

@hiwall we need to see photos of your leather sheaths and knives you've remodeled and the blades. What is your favorite wood for the handles?

 

[hiwall]

@hiwall we need to see photos of your leather sheaths and knives you've remodeled and the blades. What is your favorite wood for the handles?

These are far from being works-of-art but they are functional. I check the steel before I do any work on them and if they are soft I just toss them. Here are some I have done.

 

[joel]

Looks good.
But will they cut a tomato?

 

[Patchouli]

If we're voting, I like the one on the left. The handle, the blade, the color of the sheath. But I also like the the 2nd from the left item.