Your first home made knife
Post a picture of your first home made knife:
Here's mine. Made from a file with burlap micarta handles and brass pins: (May 2009):
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This was in the making stuff category.
Here's mine, a large military model. What's odd is I finished grinding it in 1997, I gave it to a blacksmith to harden it and he moved to Iceland for 6 yrs because his wife was stationed there. When he returned he gave it back differentially hardened.
I made other knives during that time, but this is the first I actually ground from scratch.
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I had a compass, but without a map, it's just a cool toy to show you where oceans and ice are.
Winter, that's one cool knife!
That's a smoking knife, Winter! I like it a LOT. I don't have any pics of my early knives, didn't have a digital camera back then. Here's an early one. DSC00391A.jpg I ground it from a bar of (hardened) damascus.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bucksnort, that's nice! Is that damascus?
I see now that it is Damascus.
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Here's my first ever....made just under 3 years ago.
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I remember that one!Originally Posted by crashdive123
Wow Crash, you've certainly improved.
I had a compass, but without a map, it's just a cool toy to show you where oceans and ice are.
Here's my first....for shame...27740_1390402436435_7375895_n.jpg
It's nice to see first knives and the progress guys have made.
I tend to prefer the buckskinner type of knife, can't be helped it's just me.
I forged this one nearly 35 years ago. Used a buggy spring for the steel, antler for the handle and pure block tin for the bolster.
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Some pretty crude looking tools. However, at the end of the day, each would get the job done.
Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.
nice one...i will try to post mine too...
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My first attempt....
I just ordered a premade blade from knifekits. I'll make my own handle. I'll try to show a picture when it's done. It will be my first.
nice....job...
Real early knife, made from industrial hack saw blade.......still use it as a "garden knife"
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Possibility the "first", also hack saw blade, antler handle, sheath made fro old boot top......used this as a hunting knife for a lot of years.
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Fillet knife (bottom) from file......
Pommel poured pewter.
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Pouring pewter on another knife....I was kinda rebuilding it.......Index card mold
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Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Looks Good Hunter!
Here is one of my first few.
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Keep in mind the problem may be extremely complicated, though the "Fix" is often simple...
"Teaching a child to fish is the "original" introduction to all that is wild." CS
"How can you tell a story that has no end?" Doc Carlson
Hey, I like that, cool.
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Here's My First .Made From a Unknown Peice Of Steel. Un Heatreated And Red Oak for Handles .
After Reading and Looking Over Crash's Blades and Learning Some Stuff On the Way I Made My 2nd One
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Steel On this One Is From a Lawnmower and The Handles Are My 1st Atempt at Micarta
To Fail Is to Learn from your Mistakes and Advanced off of that Failure.
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