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Bought a couple of kits from knifekits, gonna build a trapper for myself and a Languille for my former roommate who's wanted one for ages and make the handle scales for the latter from the tree that could've killed him (it fell on the house, the ceiling landed in his bed, luckily he'd stayed up later than planned talking to a friend about anime.) Considering buying a cheap circular-saw blade and making my own blades for 'em as well. So tomorrow I go to Horror Fright and buy a bunch of tools. I need a bandsaw (in general), a belt sander, and a bench grinder. Anything else essential to turning a saw blade or truck spring into a knife?
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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mattwhoo posted:A good set of files. If you going to be cutting out blanks an angle grinder would be helpful as well. A good set of drill bits for the handle pins also helps. Drilling holes in steel that's already hardened sucks rear end. Don't forget a poo poo ton of sandpaper in a bunch of grits. It also just occurred to me that more Dremel bits would be good. Good thing I get another paycheck before the bills are due. 
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Oct 18, 2017 13:58
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wormil posted:And don't buy sandpaper from HF. mattwhoo posted:I would really skip the harbor freight belt sander and go with something like this belt grinder Trabant posted:A drill press and vise could be extremely useful in drilling the tang and scales for your pins (if you plan on using them). You might be able to pull it off with a handheld drill, but getting them nice straight... it's tricky.  Really should get a vise to put under it, though.Didn't end up getting the bandsaw, got the biggest Li-ion battery they make for my cordless tools (including a recip saw) instead  (I've been using the original set of NiCd packs that came with the kit, had to charge them right before use and they didn't last long). Dammit, I actually looked over the tool display to see if there was anything else in the system I need/want, completely forgot the death wheel. Never got one before because of aforementioned battery crappiness.Did get a set of files and a big ol' kit of Dremel accessories at HF, though. And an auto-darkening welding mask, which was probably a bad idea.
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mattwhoo posted:You will more then likely outgrow that belt grinder really really fast plus it's only 1" wide belt. The one I linked is a 2" wide belt ... I understand to budget concerns And yeah, I got the HF cutting wheels, but I smoke, and I usually wear a gas mask with N95 or P100 filters for grinding (don't put it on for a single cut, but if I'm doing any serious grinding/cutting I do, because even using the non-Chinesium wheels makes for an unpleasant next day what with the black snot and all.)
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Oct 18, 2017 22:26
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My knives have arrives. I am rife with knife. When I showed them to my parents, Mom suggested I "should use some of the black walnut in the shed" for the handles. Which her grandfather (or maybe great-grandfather) who owned a sawmill sawed in to boards (and presumably kept a few from a customer's job as payment) around the turn of the last century or earlier. At least one of my knives is about to get a whole lot fancier.  Good thing I bought a respirator for a previous project, black walnut's the one that's bad for you, right?wormil posted:cheaper to buy an inexpensive knife and replace the handles. And would probably be the same quality at the kit.
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Oct 26, 2017 17:08
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One of the folders finished, the other one (not pictured) has the scales on awaiting final shaping/grinding down the pins, and I've cut off a block to make the scales for the sheath knife. (My parents have all the woodworking tools, and I don't get a chance to go over that often.)  One side I got on the first try, the other split and had to be started over three or four times when I tried to put the spring pin through, I went through so many blanks I had to go and cut another piece off the board to make more. And then the final one, seen here, had a crack halfway through that looked like it would sand out, but obviously didn't. But gently caress making ANOTHER one. So I mixed some wood glue with the dust from sanding it, and smeared it on to fill the crack, then wiped/sanded off the excess. It seems to have worked. Now to put a couple coats of Danish oil on and buff the poo poo out of it. (My brother who lives with our parents builds bows and refinishes gun stocks, so he has all the wood-finishing oils on hand.) Edit after the second coat of oil: Ooh, shiny.  This is exactly the look I was hoping for. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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Nov 24, 2017 21:50
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From the top: a kit blade I made grip scales for from from black walnut from my great-grandpa's sawmill. Bottom: one of these cheap machetes I cut down to a cruiser bow. Middle two: a knife and a WIP blade made from the bit I cut off the machete.  I showed them to my father, who made a few knives from kits himself back in the day, and has always been a proponent of "always have a good knife on you, in case you have to carve out a civilization." He was very appreciative of them, and said "Now make me an ulu." I think he mostly meant it as a joke challenge, but he's getting the middle one here as a Christmas present:  Found an ancient (well, older than me, at least, probably late '70s) seized-up 7.5" B&D circular saw in his shed, took the blade off and gave it an overnight bath in Evaporust (not sponsored, just a satisfied customer of sufficiently advanced technology), then cut the teeth off and cut the finger slots out of the center. All have at least four coats of Danish oil, the handles I made for the the blades made from trash are made from whatever cutoffs happened to be the proper size and nearest the top of the scrap box (they live out in the boonies, so instead of a "gently caress it bucket" Mom has a largish cardboard box for wood scraps and a bin for trash that can't be burned at home, idea being you can just take the box of wood scraps and throw it on the burnin' pile when you get enough yard waste to justify a bonfire.*) I think the filet knife and the ulu are from the same bit of standard pine 1x ripped down for some project of mom's, she putters around in the shop when she's off work, Dad is old and feeble and retired for some time, so has put his puttering skills into gardening and Asian cuisine, hence asking me to make him a kitchen knife. (*And yes, she does call the local authorities and warn them before lighting it.) Edit: Should've included something for scale, but the ulu is about 5" or a bit less between points.These are not large knives. (Well, I guess one of the ones mentioned that spawned two of the others is, but you know.) Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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