Knowing how to make a knife is a handy skill to have in any emergency survival situation. A survival knife is handy for cooking, creating shelter, hunting, and self-defense when necessary. Even if you are the most self-sufficient, expert prepper, you should learn how to make a survival k...
Blade S Guide To Making Knives Never before has there been a fully illustrated, all-color, step-by-step book on how to make knives - until now! And, as a bonus, two chapters are dedicated to sword and tomahawk making. Novice knifemakers, knife enthusiasts ... K Joe - 《Krause Pubn...
If you use your knives on a regular basis, it only makes sense to keep them as sharp as possible whether they are straight edges like a chef’s knife or serrated knives. As you may expect, this will allow you to make sure they cut cleanly as they’re intended to. A sharper knife w...
At this stage, as well as designing how the knife will look, one of the main decisions that you need to make is how you are going to attach the handles to the knife. There are three main ways of accomplishing this; a full tang, a partial tang and a through tang. The knife that I...
In fact, several very informative how-to articles lay out the process very clearly. The bestarticle on how to make your own knife out of a fileis written by Christopher Cody at Woods Monkey. The process is straightforward but requires some tools, such as a hack saw, bench grinder, scroll...
For this project, the knife has titanium bolsters, a carbon fiber handle and a damascus blade. The locking-liner folder integrates a classical handle/bolster combination that, to build it, entails an intermediate level of difficulty. What makes the folder more complicated to build than other pla...
Now, I am not hammering directly flat down on it. We dont want to flatten it exactly even. We are leaning toward one side of it. That is because the spine of the knife is thicker than the blade. Want to see the eight basic hammering techniques that a blacksmith uses?I have them rig...
Each time you sharpen the same knife make sure you use the same angle you used before. Mixing up the sharpening angle is generally not recommended. Using the same angle repeatedly is far more important that specific angle itself. In order to test the sharpness of your blade try carefully cut...
Perhaps you could add an engraving onto the blade of the knife for one idea. Or maybe it could be sitting on a map with a compass to show that this knife belongs to an explorer! These are just a few ideas you could go for, but what else can you think of to finish off this knife...
-use your exacto knife and cut at an angle to give it a blade shape. Use hot glue to keep the blades together - It will look rough, but don't concern yourself with that at this point. Step 4: Handle Take your sketch and cut out the handle from your sketch. ...