OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
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OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
http://www.hossom.com/jonesy/
And a cheap way to build a heat treat "oven" is in this thread:
http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/22731
And a cheap way to build a heat treat "oven" is in this thread:
http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/22731
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Cheap and fun. I love it.
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
This is beyond cool! Y2K is really getting into knives (a chip off the ol' block). What could be more fun than him making his own! THANKS for the link!!!
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
+1Ysabel Kid wrote:This is beyond cool! Y2K is really getting into knives (a chip off the ol' block). What could be more fun than him making his own! THANKS for the link!!!
Both those links have tons of information for a fun and inexpensive project...!
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
I've never made a knife on my bucket list. But story goes my great grandfather used to have an old portable saw mill. When it quit running he made knives out of the huge saw blades and sold them. My father still has one, and is sure to tell the story every time he see's it.
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Great post ! One of my boys is quite a good knife-maker. Some of his best blades are from old bandsaw blades we got when the Flagstaff Sawmill went under.
Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Thanks!
I was just looking for that this weekend.
The link I had in my favorites was no longer good and I didn't have time to dig further.
I was just looking for that this weekend.
The link I had in my favorites was no longer good and I didn't have time to dig further.
Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
I am going to make one of those soon. Fun project for me and the kids!
Thanks for the links.
Chad
Thanks for the links.
Chad
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Glad to be of service!Jeff H wrote:Thanks!
I was just looking for that this weekend.
The link I had in my favorites was no longer good and I didn't have time to dig further.
I had it a while back and forgot about it when the knife bug faded into the background. Started digging around knifeforums.com and found it again. Bookmarked it then remembered I already had it if it had survived the computer transfer. Sure enough I had it but like you, found the original link was dead.
For the time being I'm just doing scales on pre-made blades but when I get to doing my own blades it'll have to be the stock removal method and this will probably be the way I do it. I just don't have the space/time to forge. That little heat treat oven will come in handy though. I've read of using thermal bricks to do the same thing (fireplace brick?) but don't know what to look for or where to source them locally.
Here's a couple more good (IMO) links:
Shaping scales for a neck knife (I'm using this one to figure out the scales on my compact skinner project): http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/cache/artic ... cales1.htm
Homemade Finn puukko (probably my favorite style of knife): http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/cache/artic ... aking1.htm
Outdoors articles (I haven't checked these out beyond the two knife articles): http://www4.gvsu.edu/triert/cache/articles/articles.htm
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This running with the Joneses boy
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Now that is cool.
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Thanks added that to the favorites. I can see a summer project for me and my son.
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
So, none of the articles show how the pins are stuck in place in the handles. Anyone know anymore info on this?
Looks like a fun project to try. Never made a knife before.
Looks like a fun project to try. Never made a knife before.
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
As in how they are actually secured? Usually it's done with clear, slow set expoy.Rube Burrows wrote:So, none of the articles show how the pins are stuck in place in the handles. Anyone know anymore info on this?
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Got to have a Jones for this
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This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
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Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Oh, I thought the epoxy was to help hold it but the pins held it too. Guess that makes sense. The pins are just there to line everything up?awp101 wrote:As in how they are actually secured? Usually it's done with clear, slow set expoy.Rube Burrows wrote:So, none of the articles show how the pins are stuck in place in the handles. Anyone know anymore info on this?
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
The pins help line it all up as well as providing a small amount of support for the scales.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Thanks.awp101 wrote:The pins help line it all up as well as providing a small amount of support for the scales.
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
If you really want the pins to hold better use a pair of side cutters and make deep(not through or even close to it) cuts on the pins and this will give the epoxy a mechanical lock as well as the holding power of the epoxy. Tom
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
Very cool!
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Oly
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Re: OT: Absolute Cheapskate Way to Start Making Knives
very kewl
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