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Metal working is a true art. TheWorkshop.ca has a good demonstration start to finish of a DIY Knife Making build. It shows that making a knife is much more than cutting out a shape and sharpening it. "The blade surface is hand sanded and polished with compound to remove the tinting that resulted from the "Tempering" step. I opted not to use any power tools for fear of building any heat-up on the edge of the blade and again loosing the temper. As shown above the blade is honed with a stone and the file has to have considerable pressure exerted to bite the steel."
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April 25th, 2009
The final picture is not that of a machete. That’s a scimitar.
April 25th, 2009
That’s why I “Qualified” the opening of the Video with the term “Attempt”
The way the metal was worked to thin the blade edge caused the curve…
Call it what you will, it’s still a “Nasty bit of business” when you’re swinging it about…
…fg
May 26th, 2009
[...] probably remember the knife making article that we featured a few weeks ago, one of the main tools that was used to construct the knife was a [...]