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April 24, 2009

DIY Knife Making

at 12:37 pm. Filed under DIY Hacks

 

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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3 Responses to “DIY Knife Making”

  1. cde Says:

    The final picture is not that of a machete. That’s a scimitar.

  2. FrankG Says:

    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

  3. DIY Forge Construction - Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog Says:

    [...] 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 [...]

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