Hey TW! Let's see your knives!

It looked too shiny for micarta on the handle ridge, but now looking at the finger grooves I can see the layers.

 

I like fancier knives for the office, but if I'm outdoors chances are a Victorinox Electrician is in my pocket. Hell of a good knife for $30.

 

Well I started a project that's more of a pain in the ass than I expected but I got ahold of a couple of industrial saw mill blades and decided to make knives from them.





It took forever and a half to cut out but it's a slow work in progress and I think it'll turn out pretty good

 

At first I saw the sawblade picture on the homepage and thought he had literally posted a picture of paper mill "knives" which are round knives (shaped like a sawblade but smooth) used to cut paper into rolls off the machine continuously as it goes by at around 30 MPH...sorry industrial nerd moment

But also ... want to see how that comes out

 

NERD.

 

I beat you to it already in my comment

 

I think I'm gonna do burlap micarta handles. Anyone have experience?

 

This whole project is gonna be a bunch of shit I've never done lol.
1st make the drop point knife
2nd make micarta scales for it
3rd make a kydex sheath

At some point I'm gonna fuck something up lol but it's worth trying

 

Just make sure it's not you. Stitches suck.

 

Seriously. Sharpen last. Keep your bevel grind at 1/8 until after heat treat and then do a final grind for sharpening and creating the cutting edge.

 

Yeah I had that figured out already lol

 

I made a machete out of a leaf spring once, heavy as hell and took forever to get a edge on it

 

I saw this on google images last night

I'll probably try it next

 

I think I'm going to give that a try myself, looks like it would make a good toolbox knife

 

I think I've got a couple dozen dull ones in my tool box I'm gonna use lol

 

I have a few old ones to practice on, but none of them are rated as fire and rescue

 

I wonder if it even matters since your cutting the serrations off anyway

 

I kinda like the first one that has the serrations on the spine