Your first home made knife

[randallss7]

I do not have my first knife, I wish I would of held on to it. Here is the oldest knife I own that I made, I made it back in the early 80's I was about 10 or 12 can't remember for sure, blade is made from an saw blade, handle is made from walnut, blade is water ground, I didn't have anyway to drill holes in handle so I glued scales on with JB weld knife is still going strong even though I never use it. It cracks me up when I look at it now, with its square handle roughly shaped blade...lol.

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here is my first folder I made this one about a 1 1/2 years ago.

this knife is still working today, but it had cosmetic problems, any way it was the first.

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[Mossman]

That's pretty impressive work! I want to make a knife, but I'm still considering which technique to use.

[crashdive123]

Believe me when I say.....there was not a whole lot of technique used when I made my first one.

[hunter63]

Believe me when I say.....there was not a whole lot of technique used when I made my first one.

LOL, I hear ya......my first ones were being bored on night shift, in a factory.....plenty of industrial hack saw blades and old files (barrels full) for material, and all sorts of grinders and such, to play with.......

Some people get better, some not.........So if you want to make one, just go for it....and you will learn something, and get better.

[khiolis]

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First knife i made, in process of making a second one.
Made it out of a large thick file (6 mm thick at the spine), with secundary bevel, almost razor sharp.
The handle is made of wood, with 3 brass pins, made it a lot thiner than i wanted, had to wrap it in paracord, feels better in the hand now.
I even electro-etched a symbol using a car battery charger and vinegar. polished well with a 3000 grit stone, for that near mirror finish.
Sheath made out of pvc pipe with paracord wraping. great grip on the blade.
the ruler above is in centimeters.

[crashdive123]

That came out really nice khiolis. Welcome to the forum.

[Rick]

I concur. Nice job!

[khiolis]

That came out really nice khiolis. Welcome to the forum.

thanks crashdive and Rick

[Batch]

I made this out of a circular saw blade.

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[Rick]

You did a nice job on the knife but I'm thinkin' a gator man needs something a bit bigger. You might consider this....

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[Batch]

Damn! I don't even have any machetes that big. LOL

[DaBrassKneecap]

Hi I just acquired an anvil so I started to mess around with forging. I made these two at the same time. I used a brake drum filled with coal as a forge and had an air matress pump pushing air into a metal pipe underneath the drum with holes drilled in it. Used a mahogany handle and some railing scrap for the machete. My advice is make sure you have long pliers when cooling the knives in oil haha!