[Closed] gratuitous showing off my knives thread

couple of others of the large one

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Very nice. I like those

Very nice, what are the small knives used for?

they're neck knives, called so because they hang round your neck... usually used for skinning and small dressing tasks (usually hollow ground for this, these are a scandi grind) but in reality can be used for absolutely anything

Beautiful workmanship.

Needs link to purchase, or an SWT article to link to it!
I love nice knives, but am not a connoisseur.
I use my Richardson Midori cooks knives constantly, and have my Leatherman honed to a shaving edge, but I hanker for a lovely Damascus blade thing.
The top one in the picture is my favourite.

Fantastic stuff.

Very nice - was going to ask the question about what the small ones were for, but someone else did that for me.

I've started to buy decent kitchen knives and it's amazing the difference it makes over the crap I was using before.

They're very nice! What did you use to etch the makers mark?

Thanks for the kind words, chb give me an email, I'm not trading yet but I'm sure we could work something out!! 😉

*Applauds!*

Next on my list of things to fettle at in the workshop is to start making knives. I doubt I'll ever match the quality of the OP efforts though. Top stuff.

Has anyone got some good links to how to sites and online materials and resources to swot up and plan from?

Very nice. (Thumbs up)

stoner, have a look at english handmade knives, wood and knife supplies, hennie hayes and knife bargins. all of which have materials. as for how to's youtube is your friend

Cheers dv

no worries stoner, give me a shout if you need any pointers...

i also have a few others to get in the kiln!!!
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Oh my oh my, do I see something interesting soon to be on their way to me I wonder?? 😆

😉

Stunning.

I keep fancying a crack at this, done my research just cant decide what shape to start off with (from scratch)

Absolutely stunning work. Well done.

I'm not trading yet

You really should (then I can ban your trade posts 🙂 ). They're [i]lovely.[/i]

Are these the full monty and forged or stock removal from tool steel blanks? Always made hot rod bbq style stock removal jobbies but really want a go at the old school forged from a rail pike super manly ones!!! 🙂

well done, how did the sword turn out and what was the schools reaction?

don't worry cougar, as soon as i am i will just post innocent links to my fb page, when i have one 😉 or as chb suggested do an article so i can do it proper like!
bikebouy give me a shout... (not advertising cougar just helping a forum member out!!!)
wysiwyg, have a trawl through the internet... look at loads of pics, just find the ones you like and start from there. if you are using an old file to start with its a really cheap way to try out loads of shapes, rather than using good steel and messing up, plus it then lets you get the hardening right as thats fairly important.

thanks for everyones kind words, its been a long (and expensive) road to get them to where i am happy with the quality...

these are ones i made for the chap who tested all my designs, he's handling them
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the sword is still a work in progress... the school knows about it so are not too worried!
orangerider they are stock removal from precision ground tool steel. i do all the heat treating, handles and leather too.. i have done some forge work and love it, but mrs vader wont let me build a forge in the garden.... yet!!! 😉

Very nice. And you've reminded me that our kitchen knives are getting on a bit and need replacing at some point.

[quote=Cougar ]I'm not trading yet
You really should (then I can ban your trade posts ). They're lovely.

Once you've banned him you can ban those who are trading bike parts 😉

It's not always easy but we follow up on all reports.

when I did the leather work on mine it was almost as rewarding as everything blacksmithy, Tandy leather are good for bits and bobs but I decided to go unprofessional and use the piller drill and some waxed sail thread but using full grain tanned butt leather and a bit of care about the task at hand it's very easy to impress yourself. Or it was for me anyway. . .

Never managed a logo though 🙁

of all of the process i find the leather work the most challenging, i suffer from dyspraxia which means my hands shake all the time. this means that i find cutting and sewing really really hard. its something that i have had to really concentrate on. next project on the leather is a holster for a friends walther P99. should be interesting!
the logo was a spur of the moment thing. i was trying to come up with one when i saw mu favourite fossil pile with an ammonite on the top, bish bash bosh a logo was drawn.

Very knife indeed 😀

lol a cheezybeans! 😆

Daftvader, what do you use for the heat treating?
I am starting making knives again, and as i no longer work somewhere with a vacum oven i need to get something sorted so i can do it at home.

toaster oven?

Sorry mikkel only just spotted this... I use an Evenheat kiln for hardening (imported from Sweden) and a domestic oven for tempering... Tbh if you are only making for fun I'd make a small charcoal/coal forge, heat to non-magnetic and quench as usual, as the cost of buying a kiln starts at around 1300 quid and goes up! Or there are several people, I am told, that do blade hardening.... Hth

Have just got home to a parcel.
It's from daftvader (Tim).
WOW!

That's all for now. Will post pics.

Daftvader, as you're on Fb, have you seen the pukko|areena and Knives and knife makers from around the world pages? The first is mostly in Finnish, but you usually get English replies to posts, and both have lots of photos of beautiful knives, and people do buy and sell through the pages.
Nice work on your knives, by the way, I can only dream of making something like those. I've only managed to modify an old axe I found in the shed!
It's actually turned out better than I hoped, but I only have a Workmate, an angle-grinder and some files.
Oh, and a vice that's not attached to anything at the moment. 😀
From this:

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to this:

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And it's really rather sharp, too.
#mindyerfingers 😀

I like it alot 8) nice job! Did it take long?
Funnily enough I have a friend who wants something remarkably similar to That!!!

Lovely work dv!

Slight tangent, but I saw a wrench knife by this guy this morning and thought there'd be some on here who'd like the work and the ideas.

http://www.pearceknives.com/Gallery.php

thanks nedrapier and ive seen a few blades like that last night while looking for some other bits... may have a go next time i fire up the forge!

😀 pics!

"wrench knife" Sorry!

Spanner Knife. Not quite the same though, is it?!

no worries, i was just curious as to what sort of kiln you had 🙂
I am eyeing up a little gas forge from a german company as i would like to be able to also forge some bladed at some point.

that would probably be the best way. my kiln cost me £1700, it does what i want brilliantly but it is kind of a one trick pony

assume it give you great control over temperature.
It was the nice thing at my old workplace.
I would just walk over to the heat treating department tell them what sort of steel i had used and how hard i wanted it, and they would do it in exchange of a bottle of coke 🙂

What wood is the handle of the largest knife - lignum vitae?

mikkel yeah, its fully digitally controlled, programmable to degrees and seconds... all singing and dancing ht kiln. ah the perks of an industrial workshop!!

andy R the wood is santos rosewood

Oh very nice ... I like! 😀

I think you should also make some kitchen knives coz there will be more demand for them then the Rambo zombie dissecting knives. 😛

If you are making kitchen knives take that [b][u]bolster[/u][/b] off coz it wil destroy the whetstone or at least makes it very hard to sharpen. For kitchen knives I normally buy them without bolster unless it's dirty cheap for messing about.

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This sort of shape (pic below) is very comfortable for kitchen knives. The blade width should ideally be 3/4 of Chinese cleaver.
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yes but making kitchen knives is actually quite different to the knives i make. plus its only hard to sharpen a knife with a bolster if you are doing it wrong... 😉

daftvader - Member
yes but making kitchen knives is actually quite different to the knives i make. plus its only hard to sharpen a knife with a bolster if you are doing it wrong...

It's hard coz I do not have my sharpen kit set up properly yet so it's hard to sharpen ... arrghhh ...

Mine are all Japs King whetstone & Shapton class stone so I have to put extra attention to bolstered knives then those from the far east knives.

i guess it depends on the grind. all mine so far are scandi grind so sharpening that, even with the bolster, is simple. plus if you notice the front of the bolster is level with the start of the bevel so there will be no interference with a waterstone or flat diamond plate. even using on a lapping plate wont be too hard

daftvader - Member
mikkel yeah, its fully digitally controlled, programmable to degrees and seconds... all singing and dancing ht kiln. ah the perks of an industrial workshop!!

andy R the wood is santos rosewood

I'm only asking because when I was an apprentice I made a couple of screwdrivers as a present for my Dad and the handles of those were lignum vitae, from a Malaysian truncheon, of all things. The guy who owned the company had been a policeman out there.
Nice to see an olive handle too.

Mine are just Japanese chisel (30/70 I think), double bevel or compound bevel grinds whatever they are. 😮

Oh some good stuff from [url= http://www.fiddlebackforge.com/index.cfm/about-fiddleback-forge/knife-makers-guild/ ]Fiddleback Forge[/url]

the olivewood was a bugger as its only the heartwood that has the patterning so from the block i had i didn't get much... lignum is now a CITES II wood so very very rare and expensive, those screwdriver handles will likely outlive the screwdrivers!!. i do have something similar in characteristics that is called bulletwood, blunted my bandsaw blade!

It's hard coz I do not sharpen properly yet so it's hard to sharpen ...

FTFY

And good word Vader, lovely bit of craft

thanks piemonster

Lovely. Super desirable. Top work*

*I don't want to add any more superlatives in case I appear disingenuous but really brilliant, well done.

thanks jimjam

Hi Tim, these look amazing I might be in contact with you later in the summer for one. Thanks for the racks, they're perfect. Hope your coffee arrived okay and nobody stole your cake John

Hi John, no worries and the cake was safe!!! 😆