Thread: New Project: Knife making

Ok Ive put A LOT of work into this since my last post. I even bought a small belt sander to speed up the process.

9/18/15
I made a simple jig for keeping the angle the same. Works great. I got the second half mostly done in about 25 minutes. Its actually thin enough on the edge so that it looks like a knife now. lol
The jig is basically a block of wood with a bolt in the bottom of it towards the back. You clamp the knife to the front of the block and adjust the bolt for the angle you want.

It is harder to get the plunge line just right using the sander though. So ill have to clean that up later.

9/20/15

Ok, so Im pretty much done with the stock removal process. So now I néed to heat treat it, and then polish it up to where I want it. I decided against the coating on it, but I will probably do that on a later one. Since this is my first one, I know it I know it wont be perfect, just like it was when I started making kydex holsters. But atleast Ill be able to make a really sick sheath for it. Haha

I ended up finishing it up on the belt sander. I ended up with more of a convex grind than a flat grind. At first it was by accident, but I liked it so I did both sides like that. I also took about 1/2" off of the handle. It feels a lot better now. I think Ive figured out grinding by hand already, so that's a good thing. I need to invest in some better belts though. Either that or just buy a ton of cheap ones.

Here you can see where I took a a little bit off of the handle.



And this is after I drilled the holes and sort of mocked up the handles and shaped one of the scales.



The middle hole ended up being in the wrong spot, but I planned on drilling a bunch of holes in it to lighten it, so that will just be one of those.

Here is what the knife looks like as of now. The larger holes are all over mainly because of the dull bits I have walking away from the center punch. Ill get some better bits before I do anymore. It will all be covered by the handles though, so its no big deal,