knife blanks

[topknot]

I bought myself a Axminster perform belt & disc sander to make life easier. The first job i did was 3 blanks of 01 tool steel in the style of Mr Mears knife which i scaled down to 17cm by 3mm. This is so my boys can have a knife that fits their hands. More to come

 

[ArkAngel]

Nice work so far

I await the next installment

 

[leon-b]

does anyone on here have an easy to make knife template to scale that they are willing to send me through email
pretty please as i would like to give knife making a bash
leon

 

[nickg]

does anyone on here have an easy to make knife template to scale that they are willing to send me through email
pretty please as i would like to give knife making a bash
leon

Ill send in PM a scan of my wilkie woodlore and some full size outlines. They should print out on a4. Also a scan and outline of my Vikstrom scandi blade. That should get you started.

Cheers

Nick

 

[topknot]

The way i scaled the knife down was :- 1/ Find a picture of a knife on the web. 2/ Using paintshop to get the right size print off. 3/ Stick paper pattern to card using glue stick. 4/ Cut pattern out with a knife. 5/ Using engineers blue or a permanent marker pen colour in steel. 6/ Put pattern on steel and mark around with a sharp point. I hope this helps . cheers topknot.

 

[leon-b]

nick thanks very much i look forward to recieving your pm, and thanks top knot i will use this method to get me started
leon

 

[nickg]

nick thanks very much i look forward to recieving your pm, and thanks top knot i will use this method to get me started
leon

Sorry mate im having diffs getting attachments to you or posting them somewhere at full size. If you could pm me with your normal email address ill do it that way no probs

Cheers
Nick

 

[leon-b]

thanks for the email nick i now have every single one of them saved, i have used the wilkie outline and made a template out of some thick card board the next step is to make a prototype out of a softer metal for this i am going to use a piece of copper pipe heated up and hammered flat
leon

 

[Geoffrey]

I would also like to try to make a Ray Mears knife.

Guess I just need to stop thinking about it and try it...

 

[topknot]

Hi my sons and i had a day of putting the flat ground cutting edges to the blank blades. Using wet & dry with oil to clean up the blades ready for tempering. The tempering will have to be given some thought.

 

[leon-b]

how did you put these edges on it did you use a file ?
leon

 

[nickg]

Ive had a couple of other ask for copies of the knife outlines which i've sent out. If anybody else wants copies ill be happy to send them on, I have my wilkinson sword woodlore and a scandi by Kay Vikstrom. Just pm me with your normal email address and il send them as Adobe PDF attachments. They will print out fine on an A4 printer at full size. cost a mere couple of reps!!

Cheers Nick

 

[topknot]

The 2 at the top have flat ground edges done by hand filing and the bottom 1 flat ground on a belt sander.

 

[topknot]

Hi i had the blades heat treared by s.w.c knives (top man).
The black liners were glued (epoxy resin) to the beech handles, the fronts cleaned up and holes drilled.
The knifes in the pic are mocked up and ready for the final gluing up.

 

[Big John]

Looking good, keep us posted. How much did the heat treating set you back?

 

[topknot]

Hi one step closer,my sons and i made a paper pattern for the knife sheafs.
putting the pattern on a pice of veg tanned leather cutting 3 blanks out.
We then groved channels on the insides.Then a channel around the edge,
moisten the leather and ran the over stich wheel
All around the front channel only, and ready for the filler to be glued in

 

[topknot]

hi, sheafs dyed and glue up and ready for stitching

 

[leon-b]

hi mate is the knife finished yet ?, if so please could you post a pic because chrisanson is making me a knife blank basically exactly the same as your ones, i am handling it with beech aswell so i would like to see what it looks like
thanks leon

 

[topknot]

Hi leon hopefully the pics will be done over the weekend.
cheers topknot.

 

[penvisser]

Looks very good.....but i don't see a beltloop...

Penvisser