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Store bought knife build?
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Topics include Knife and Hawk questions, advice and build alongs.
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Re: Store bought knife build?
Then I pin the scales together making sure the dummy Mark's line up and cut the other side.
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
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Then I belt sand the pommel end roughly and oversized.
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Re: Store bought knife build?
Then with the scales pinned together I work the blade end to the finished shape because I can't shape that part after they are epoxied on.
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
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Time to epoxy them on.
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Re: Store bought knife build?
Clamped up and some epoxy gets squeezed out the sides but that gets sanded off when I finish the profile.
Also I make sure the brass pins are sticking out both sides so they will get sanded flush and look good.
That's it for now, the epoxy takes a day to setup.
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Re: Store bought knife build?
Curiosity; what does a blade like that cost? I saw you listed where you got it.
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Re: Store bought knife build?
This was $17.45 and it is cryogenic heat treat so the same blade can be a couple $ less than that.
https://www.texasknife.com/vcom/index.p ... =3a&page=2
https://www.texasknife.com/vcom/index.p ... =3a&page=2
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Re: Store bought knife build?
Here is a link to there home page. You can get everything to make a knife. Even raw stock if you want to start from scratch.
Funny thing, it cost me roughly $20 for a piece of steel to make a knife and you can get a finished blade from them for$25-$35 but like my wife told me, it doesn't have my character in it.
But in the case of the cheff knife, I don't have a way to heat treat it and its difficult to make a large blade that thin.
So why not.
https://www.texasknife.com/vcom/index.php
Funny thing, it cost me roughly $20 for a piece of steel to make a knife and you can get a finished blade from them for$25-$35 but like my wife told me, it doesn't have my character in it.
But in the case of the cheff knife, I don't have a way to heat treat it and its difficult to make a large blade that thin.
So why not.
https://www.texasknife.com/vcom/index.php
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Re: Store bought knife build?
Here is another good source for knife making supplies.
https://usaknifemaker.com/
https://usaknifemaker.com/
"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada