does any body....

[longshot]

make their own knives? if so tell us about it...


ls

[commonsense]

I tried once using a old file, did not finish it but I think if I had stayed with it may have had good results.

[Tightwad]

This site should give you more than enough
knife info for a lifetime. It's Bob Engnath's
site he left for us. Bob passed away a few years
ago but left this legacy for furture knife makers.

http://www.engnath.com/public/manframe.htm

[Rick]

I made one once out of a crowbar, the steel is pretty good and crowbars are relatively inexpensive. I went to buy some 0-1 steel to make a sword and about fainted; that's what got me thinking about crowbars.

I actually started out to make a spear head, but changed direction in mid-hammer blow and went with a medival dagger with a 10 inch blade instead.

Next in the que is a couple spear heads and a sword.

[Mark_and_Nicole]

LS i am a knife maker.
i havent been doing it as much as i'd like recently,mainly because the kids take up a lot of my time.
but once they start school my goal is to get back into the game and start hitting the gun/knife shows around here.
i've got a batch of heat treated stainless blades i'm turning into knives when i have a free minute hear and there.
also some stainless dam. blades i will be sending out soon to harden.
another thing i miss and want to get back into is forging. i make my own carbon steel damascus here .
my goal in the next two years is to undertake the making of a katana by traditional methods

as for bob engnath, i had the honor and pleasure of completing his final blade. the one he was in the middle of making when he died.

Mark

[gb6491]

I've made a few. The first two were from old files.
I annealed the files using a stack of fire bricks and a weed burner. I ground the files to shape on a grinder. Then I re-hardened them using the same setup. The quench was done in canola oil and the tempering in an old toaster oven. I put a guard and elk antler handle on both. There are some photos of the second one here:
http://gbrannon.bizhat.com/treat.htm

For anyone interested, here is my links page for all the knife-making info I've found on the web:
http://gbrannon.bizhat.com

I think this is a great tutorial to start with:
http://hossom.com/tutorial/jonesy/

Regards,
Greg

[longshot]

here a couple that ive done,

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a211/longshot001/Sunp0007.jpg

this one shows the Canadian quarter that in inset in the handle of the skinner showing the cariboo on the reverse side.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a211/longshot001/Sunp0011.jpg

ls

[Tightwad]

Very nice knives, mate. While neither is a large knife
I have no doubt that both are "enough" knife. ;D
Heck, the knife that the 6,000 yr old "Iceman"
carried was very much like the wedge shaped knife
you made and he had to depend in it to live! :o :o

Good job!! ;D ;D

[tufhelp]

I don't reckon a 6,000 year old guy would have enough strength to carry a "big" knife... :-*

[DV8]

I made a knife once using an old lawnmower blade. It wasn't bad for a first time effort. I didn't affix a handle, rather grinded a "handle" & simply wrapped it with para cord.

All in all, not a bad knife, & I was proud cause4 I had made it !!

~DV8

[Kyhome]

Just wanted to thank Tightwad and gb6491 for the links. they cost me about 3 hours sleep last night with all the other links and sites. very enjoyable reading. thanks again folks.