home made :)

[Ex Member lyndon]

hey peeps just finished my first ever knife , just thought ide put a link on here so you can have a look. its a RM copy outline wise but with a much larger bevel,3 mm O1 tool steel russet liners 6mm brass pins and lanyard tube (the cheap stuff lol ) wood is zebrano curtesy of ebay took me around 30 hours start to finish hardened it myself also really straight forward no mystery or art involved pics are before sharpening or final polish and stropping. blade finish is straight from quenching and after a full day sharpening i can almost cut the fabric of time !...thanks for looking lyn.

 

[cwillson]

well done lyndon, nice one.

C

 

[g4ghb]

Very tidy! - I'm always a little jealous of those that have made the effort to make their knife from scratch!

 

[stu1979uk]

Nice, like the wood on the handle, how do you create the bevel?

 

[Nagual]

Thats lovely man, I'd love to be able to make my own


Cheers,

 

[Ex Member lyndon]

Nice, like the wood on the handle, how do you create the bevel?

i made a jig to hold the knife when grinding 4 inches of 5mm angle iron 2 holes as low down as you can get them then just sandwich the blank and tighten up as long as it never moves in the jig its straight forward enuff just get a bench belt sander and pick an angle mine are random hence the large grinds pass the blank across the table of the grinder(platten) and bobs your aunties live in lover. only problem i had was the platten or tool table on my grinder was to small so i had to clamp a bigger bit on to it if your interested let me know and ill post pics of the whole set up cheers lyn.

 

[Biker]

That is just gorgeous! Sitting here green with envy. I soooo want to make a knife one day.

I for one would like to see your set-up if it's not too much bother asking. Thanks in advance.

 

[TinkyPete]

Nice one

 

[littlebiglane]

That's lovely. Well done. Amazing effort.

 

[Tengu]

its very good for the first try.

 

[Hugo]

Great first try. Well done.

 

[Ex Member lyndon]

thanks for all the comments guys much appreciated here are some pics of my setup hardly proffesional but im working with zero budget so i get what i pay for

as you can see by the clamp i have to extend the table in order to use the jig and swap it for each side of the knife i grind wich changes the angle so i have to adjust for every side swap not accurate at all but until i can afford a sheet of ali or decent steel about 6 inches wide by 18 inches long i am stuck with this set up.
the jig can be made adjustable by welding a hinge to the base and tapping a hole through the angle then you just screw in or out to alter th angle but with a platern (work rest//table) that udjusts this isnt needed.....with a £58 grinder from axminster (not the best but all i could afford) this first knife cost me under £70 that cant be bad

 

[Jack_D]

Lyndon,

Fantastic knife - I am in the earlier stages of production of my first and I am just about to do the HT - I am awaiting a couple of insulating bricks to use with my butane/propane torch. What technique did you use?

Clever set up on the belt - I have just bought the aldi one after spending far to many hours with files on the first knife so I may have to try something similar for my second, depending on how the HT goes.

Cheers for the post

Jon.

 

[Ex Member lyndon]

i have tried 3 butane torches none of them worked well enuff, by the time you get one bit red the rest has cooled just didnt work on a 9 inch knife not even on the 5 inch or so blade i use a BBQ i made from an oil drum with an inflator off an airbed blowing (hand held) through the pour out hole i guess youd call it burning hardwood pallets wich isnt really hot enuff charcoal works better but no one is selling it yet this year.
didnt try the butane torch with fire bricks though you may be lucky ide say use 2 or more if you have them and bring them in from the spine side of the knife not the cutting edge side or one of the ends.
cheers lyn