Home Forums Gear Knives and Blades Knife making sucks!

The first one. Ready to heat treat.



12 year old daughter designed this one. A family friend is teaching Em
about horses and riding. She keeps an old paring knife to open hay
bales. When Em found out i was going to make some knives, she wanted
to Rene a better knife.

Started to file this one. Said screw it, belt grinder. Glad I did.
Grinds aren't good, but much better than the one I filed.
Also, I didn't like her design. But, I do now.
Might hack one out for me, just need a bit more handle.




My "shop". Great air conditioning.



Oldest daughter calls me a,
(politically incorrect) Rigger.

Needed to hold that wood high enough to power plane it flat,
without hitting the vise jaws. Worked fine.

That's a 4 or 5 year old chunk of firewood. Used a pole axe as an
adz , firewood as a mallet. Not square, but flat should be good enough.
Don't want a square handle anyway.