The first thing you have to consider is whether to fully disassemble the knife or simply clean the blade and take care of the pivot from the outside. Here are some thoughts on that. If you want to do a thorough job or you haven’t cleaned the inside for a while, you should take th...
PatrickKnives: Try to buff a couple of times early in the sanding, this will make the scratches not removed by the previous grit easier to see. If your last grit was 400 at a diagonal you would not expect to see any scratches parallel with the blade. You can also mix up your angle ...
Buffer - Used to polish the completed blade Drill press - Used to make holes in the steel Photo courtesy Don Fogg Knives A hydraulic press built by Tommy McNabb Once the tools are in place, then the bladesmith needs to decide what he is making and what kind of steel to use... Maki...
The knife that I decided to make has a full tang – the handle has the same profile as the tang, with ‘slabs’ fastened to each side by means of pins, screws, metal tubing, bolts, epoxy etc. A partial tang extends partially from the blade and is completely hidden within the handle ...
To remove spots of blood from clothing, use 3 percent hydrogen peroxide — the kind you find in the first-aid section of the drugstore. Soak the stain with the peroxide, use your fingernail or the blade of a butter knife to help loosen and scrape away the blood, then...
Method #1 – Baking Soda to Remove the Rust “Close-up Of Baking Soda On Spoon” byAqua Mechanicalis licensed underCC BY 2.0 Materials: Baking soda, water, toothbrush, steel wool (or sponge), cloth 1) Clean Your Knife The first thing you want to do is thoroughly clean the blade of yo...
Hand your knife to another person by grasping the spine of the blade and handing it over handle first. Cut away from your body, never toward it. Keep a firm grip on both what you’re cutting and your knife. A sharp knife is safer than a dull knife because it requires less force to...
Form your lens.Use your knife to shape the ice into a lens. Remember a lens shape is thicker in the middle and narrower near the edges. Polish your lens.After you get the rough shape of a lens, finish the shaping of it by polishing it with your hands. The heat from your hands will...
Swedish FireSteel Army model is a good set to use. If you’re caught without a flint and steel set, you can always improvise by using quartziteand the steel blade of your pocket knife (you are carrying your pocket knife, aren’t you?). You’ll also need char. Char is cloth that ...
gone. That’s the reality, so my personal preference is to always have a sharp knife which to me is any edge that can shave. I don’t bother going beyond that, although in the past I used to (but that’s just because I liked to show off/get super mirror polishes on my edges)....