Knife 12 – Kitchen Knife Hophornbeam Handle
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Knife 9 – Hunting Knife from a File
Knife 9 – Hunting Knife from a File Knife 9 – Hunting Knife from a File was made from an old file using strictly stock […]
Continue readingGrinding a Custom Made Knife
Grinding and shaping your knife is one of the most important tasks a knife maker will use. Every knife you make you will be ground […]
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Knife 8 – Riggers Knife / Sheep’s Point
This Knife 8 – Riggers Knife / Sheep’s Point with a sheep’s foot design is made from 1/8” 1080 high carbon. This knife is similar […]
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Knife 4 – Broken clip point – I tried Straightening After Quench
As you can see, this knife didn’t work out so well. I certainly should have known better, but you simply cannot bend a knife like this after it’s been heat treated.
Continue readingEdge Geometry for making Knives
Custom hand made knife geometry “Sharp” is a term used to tell how well our tools perform. But is a sharp knife the same as […]
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Knife 3 – Utility Type Knife from a File
At first I though “This knife could probably use a little more bevel. Maybe it needs a ricasso and probably a choil” but after doing this for a while i realized some knife designs have these attributes intentionally.
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Definitions for Terms in Knife Making
Batoning is the technique of cutting or splitting wood by using a baton-sized stick or mallet to repeatedly strike the spine of a sturdy knife, […]
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Knife Layout
There are many different ways to layout the knife. You may chose one, or use different ways for different processes or different knife styles. For instance, a simpler design that you have made before you may decisde to just draw an outline on the steel.
Continue reading*** Follow Me for my first 100 Knives ***
Soon after I decided to take knife making a little more seriously, I decided to track my progress and document what I learned along with my my mistakes. I thought if there were mistakes to make and I made then others would likely make the same mistakes. So, here is a progression in some reasonable order of my beginnings as a knife maker and bladesmith.
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