OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives

[awp101]

http://www.hossom.com/jonesy/

And a cheap way to build a heat treat "oven" is in this thread:
http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/22731

[piller]

Cheap and fun. I love it.

[Ysabel Kid]

This is beyond cool! Y2K is really getting into knives (a chip off the ol' block). What could be more fun than him making his own! THANKS for the link!!!

[AJMD429]

This is beyond cool! Y2K is really getting into knives (a chip off the ol' block). What could be more fun than him making his own! THANKS for the link!!!

+1

Both those links have tons of information for a fun and inexpensive project...!

[RIHMFIRE]

very cool

[Bob Winchester]

I've never made a knife on my bucket list. But story goes my great grandfather used to have an old portable saw mill. When it quit running he made knives out of the huge saw blades and sold them. My father still has one, and is sure to tell the story every time he see's it.

[Batman1939]

Great post ! One of my boys is quite a good knife-maker. Some of his best blades are from old bandsaw blades we got when the Flagstaff Sawmill went under.

[Jeff H]

Thanks!

I was just looking for that this weekend.
The link I had in my favorites was no longer good and I didn't have time to dig further.

[chadbr]

I am going to make one of those soon. Fun project for me and the kids!

Thanks for the links.

Chad

[awp101]

Thanks!

I was just looking for that this weekend.
The link I had in my favorites was no longer good and I didn't have time to dig further.

Glad to be of service!

I had it a while back and forgot about it when the knife bug faded into the background. Started digging around knifeforums.com and found it again. Bookmarked it then remembered I already had it if it had survived the computer transfer. Sure enough I had it but like you, found the original link was dead.

For the time being I'm just doing scales on pre-made blades but when I get to doing my own blades it'll have to be the stock removal method and this will probably be the way I do it. I just don't have the space/time to forge. That little heat treat oven will come in handy though. I've read of using thermal bricks to do the same thing (fireplace brick?) but don't know what to look for or where to source them locally.

Here's a couple more good (IMO) links:
Shaping scales for a neck knife (I'm using this one to figure out the scales on my compact skinner project): http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/cache/artic ... cales1.htm

Homemade Finn puukko (probably my favorite style of knife): http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/cache/artic ... aking1.htm

Outdoors articles (I haven't checked these out beyond the two knife articles): http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/cache/articles/articles.htm

[JReed]

Now that is cool.

[20cows]

Hmmm.

[BenT]

Thanks added that to the favorites. I can see a summer project for me and my son.

[Rube Burrows]

So, none of the articles show how the pins are stuck in place in the handles. Anyone know anymore info on this?

Looks like a fun project to try. Never made a knife before.

[awp101]

So, none of the articles show how the pins are stuck in place in the handles. Anyone know anymore info on this?

As in how they are actually secured? Usually it's done with clear, slow set expoy.

[Rube Burrows]

So, none of the articles show how the pins are stuck in place in the handles. Anyone know anymore info on this?

As in how they are actually secured? Usually it's done with clear, slow set expoy.

Oh, I thought the epoxy was to help hold it but the pins held it too. Guess that makes sense. The pins are just there to line everything up?

[awp101]

The pins help line it all up as well as providing a small amount of support for the scales.

[Rube Burrows]

The pins help line it all up as well as providing a small amount of support for the scales.

Thanks.

[fordwannabe]

If you really want the pins to hold better use a pair of side cutters and make deep(not through or even close to it) cuts on the pins and this will give the epoxy a mechanical lock as well as the holding power of the epoxy. Tom

[olyinaz]

Very cool!

Oly

[rjohns94]

very kewl