First knife making foray

[Brandon-C]

Was carving a spoon today and halfway through roughing it out I had a thought: I have a damaged Stanley plane sitting on the shelf could i make a something out of the blade? Here Is my first try at knife making, a Japanese kiridashi all done with a dremel using abrassive cutting disks and sanding drums except for the final sharpening which was done on stones. Not perfect but came out razor sharp so i'm fairly pleased and I also have a carving knife scribed out on the other side of steel from the plane.

That being said if I wanted to do this on the regular I'd need to upgrade my tools (an angle grinder and a belt sander would do) as cutting the steel with a dremel took ages and there is only surface area to put the bevel in.

Thanks.

 

[Janne]

Not bad! What are the dimensions?

 

[Brandon-C]

Thanks and length: 13.5cm blade: 5cm Thickness: 2mm

 

[Janne]

So a quite useful size! Well done, congrats!

 

[Hunkyfunkster]

Great job. I had a go at making a spoon knife a while back. It's good fun making your own tools

 

[Brandon-C]

Cheers and using anything you've made with your own two hands I find always makes the job better.

 

[snappingturtle]

A good start! the plane blade I think would make a good knife, I make mine out of files, chisel's and my fav steels car springs and anti roll bars!

 

[Brandon-C]

Was sparking and flowering pretty good when I was grinding it so seems a decent carbon steel. I do like the idea of reusing steel, there's so much good steel in what most would consider trash. I have a well used nicholson file that's like to make into something when I upgrade my toolset