Savino teaches you how to build a knife.

[1983]

Hey Savino I'm still around.

Nice to see you working on your hobby, Have you ever thought of trying out iron wood for a handle? It's tough as all hell hence the name but I got a few of them down on my property and Id be happy to send some cut offs your way. I also have some red oak and maple kicking around as well if you don't want to have to pay for any wood.
Only downside is you have to put the grunt work behind them to make them handle ready s they'll just be cut from the tree and sent your way.

As childish and stupid that the dick sword is there's an English dagger known as the "Bolluck" dagger. Basically if a lord tried to whip it out on a high lady she'd whip this out and remove the problem.


There was also a cavalry sword that had a massive piece of metal on the front for use on horseback shaped like a diamond then a regular straight tapered blade, It was useless on the ground but from horseback the down swing would literally rip a man in half from the centrifugal force. It didn't last long in history and i can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

As for your knifes if you want to make the same knife over and over again I'd highly suggest a jig plate so you can set your knife into it and have all the holes pre-drilled in your jig so you don't have to measure out things all the time or at least save some time.

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Still don't know the name but the top one looks like the blade I'm thinking of.

Al

[Number13]

1983 and Savino should get together to build a claymore or something.

[Soso0]

Wait, so we don't get to learn how to make dick swords?

[Matius]

OP, sorry about contributing to the bullshit, good job with the knife making, and good luck.

[Savino]

Hey Savino I'm still around.

Nice to see you working on your hobby, Have you ever thought of trying out iron wood for a handle? It's tough as all hell hence the name but I got a few of them down on my property and Id be happy to send some cut offs your way. I also have some red oak and maple kicking around as well if you don't want to have to pay for any wood.
Only downside is you have to put the grunt work behind them to make them handle ready s they'll just be cut from the tree and sent your way.

Good to see you here man.  I have thought about a lot of things for handles, there is some seriously fucking exotic, AMAZING looking types of hardwood ive seen online, but gods is it expensive, for one handle of some of the stuff I was looking at I'd be paying like $40..
I am not one to turn away the kindness of strangers..  If you would like to send me some good wood, I certainly appreciate it, and wouldn't object.. Shoot me a PM.

OP, sorry about contributing to the bullshit, good job with the knife making, and good luck.

Your post wasn't bad.  I have seen people requesting that same sword from smiths a dozen times.. Thing is, its totally impracticable and unrealistic..  I seen a video this SICK back country blacksmith that does custom swords, and he did one of those.. It weighed close to 50lbs once finished... NO man can wield a 50lb sword, that is the stuff of fantasy.  He had to have a local weight lifter come to his yard to swing the thing and chop up pallets.


Found some neat "rubber" type material at work today, seems like it would make a pretty decent/unique handle for a knife, even perhaps make a sheathe from it..  Gonna try tonight to make a handle for that knife I posted pictures of with this stuff.  Was originally going to use some hardwood I salvaged from an old dresser, but it broke apart, as it was pieces glued together rather then solid slabs.. Shame, that would have been a lot of good knife handle wood..  Might be ill take pictures as I fuck around with the handle.

I also just received my first ever shipment of "known" steel.  1084 carbon steel, 48 inches long, 2 inches wide, 1/8th inch thick.  Been reading up on how to heat treat it and everything, really excited to finally use some "proper" steel for knives... Don't get me wrong, the 1040 seems to serve, and the leaf springs and files I've used did well, but from everything I've read, "Known" steel is the only way to go, so you know how to heat treat it.

[1983]

I'll fire off a pm on the weekend, on my phone during the week so I can't give you what I have in my wood  pile / stock until then.

Chances are they'll be rounds cut from a log if your l good with something like that to work with.

I can also send in cut offs from branches as well if you just want to split, rivet, and carve a handle as well.

Just a heads up for the iron wood as well... It's a real fucker to work with.

Al

[Savino]

I'll fire off a pm on the weekend, on my phone during the week so I can't give you what I have in my wood  pile / stock until then.

Chances are they'll be rounds cut from a log if your l good with something like that to work with.

I can also send in cut offs from branches as well if you just want to split, rivet, and carve a handle as well.

Just a heads up for the iron wood as well... It's a real fucker to work with.

Al

Sounds good to me.  Cheers.

[Savino]

So, I don't really know where to go with this, so ill just shoot some random shit out there..

Here is that knife I forged (http://s15.postimg.org/4jzgfrdvf/forgeknife.jpg), I "finished" it..  Heat treated it, polished it up, put a shitty wooden handle on it.  Now, this knife has been used a lot at work since I made it, and used hard.  It does do the fucking job still, very nicely, I like to sharpen it every couple days, just because I like to sharpen knives, but it doesn't really need it, you can slice news paper with it still.  Not that it looks good or anything I admit, but I guess that comes with practice..  Made the "Sheath" out of cardboard and electric tape for now.. Stops it from slicing my femoral artery wide open if I happen to fall while carrying it anyways.  It looked real nice when I first made it, but it's kinda beat up now.  It was shit anyways, I know I gotta eventually get into leather too..
http://s11.postimg.org/h9y31qroh/knifeeee.jpg

Going to try to make a real fucking knife, for serious field use (skinning knife) for a buddy at work soon.  I showed him a bunch of designs, and he picked one he really liked.   I got some 1084 carbon steel, 48 inches of it, 2 inch wide, by 1/8th inch thick.  And I've been reading a lot on how to heat treat it (why I chose the steel, apparently very easy to heat treat yourself).  So that will do nicely.  Though, I plan to make a "practice knife" first out of the shit steel I've been using so far, see how it goes, and then do the real thing with the good stuff.  I'll post pictures if I remember to take my camera, I'll go into as much detail as I can I suppose, If I remember to bring my camera.  I probably should make a note to remember, just because I know there are a couple people here much better then me at this and could give good advice ect.

Also, 1083, There is another guy at work, he has a brother who works in this specialty wood shop or some fucking thing.  He said he can get me all kinds of large scrap pieces of nice fucking hardwoods.  I'll have to make him a knife too, but it sounds great.  So don't worry about chopping down any trees for me or anything man.  Though I hope you will provide advice on the upcoming project.

[Arnox]

Dunno if you posted this already but what are your comments on what steel to use?

[Savino]

Dunno if you posted this already but what are your comments on what steel to use?

Umm, well honestly there are tons of steels to use.  The most common for beginners apparently though is the carbon steels, like 1084, 1095 ect.  Gets plenty hard, easy to heat treat at home, cheap and easy to get ahold of.

I have made knives out of, lawnmower blades, files and springs off cars, they worked quite well, problem is though, there is no way to really know exactly what type of steel it is (short of getting it tested), so you wouldn't know how to properly heat treat it, and that's what makes the knife, is the heat treat.

[1983]

What clearing out some land and dragging an old oil drum for where I'm going to put up my shop for the forge and I got to thinking to look at that old car wreck to see if still has it's suspension in it... Well... Jackpot.

I don't usually make knifes but I've been wanting to try my hand at a custom design so maybe in a year or so I'll have something worth while to post here.

Slowly adding to the collection as well so I can make my multi fuel forge, I got the oil drum donated for nothing and a burner head for "get it the fuck off my property" so when I bring my spare air compressor in from my old place I should be able to make something workable.

Al

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[Savino]

What clearing out some land and dragging an old oil drum for where I'm going to put up my shop for the forge and I got to thinking to look at that old car wreck to see if still has it's suspension in it... Well... Jackpot.

I don't usually make knifes but I've been wanting to try my hand at a custom design so maybe in a year or so I'll have something worth while to post here.

Slowly adding to the collection as well so I can make my multi fuel forge, I got the oil drum donated for nothing and a burner head for "get it the fuck off my property" so when I bring my spare air compressor in from my old place I should be able to make something workable.

Al

Keep us updated brah.  Any recent smithing work to show off, I know you're good.


So, some new knives... The first 2 are totally finished, though they have been work tested, hard, so they are a little scuffed up, yet they still slice newspaper like nothing.  The rest, are in various states, yet to be finished.

All 1084 steel, first 2, as they are finished have obviously been heat treated, the rest have not yet.  Still learning my way around wood, so my handles look like shit still.

http://s22.postimg.org/zffl5mm1t/kn_ife.jpg

[1983]

Mostly it's the cash flow that's putting a halt to allot of my stuff, I want to have my shop built before I commit to anything because the weather around here can be sun one moment rain shit pounding you then next then back to sun then rain shit pounding you while it's sunny out.

I'll post pics if the weather's good tomorrow of the area I'm working on clearing out to give you an idea how big my little shops going to be.

Al

[Savino]

Ok, so for reasons, I will  post up a few knife designs.  People will then have until tomorrow afternoon to vote on one, even if just one person picks one, I will go with that I guess because this thread is dead as fuck.. 
From there, I will take pictures, and go into great detail every step of the way, for the few days it will take me to make a good and proper knifeything from said design...

They aren't labeled, so consider them 1-whatever, from top to bottom.

http://s4.postimg.org/835zbhvwd/knife3333333333.jpg


Don't pick the second one actually though, I am not ready to make that one.  For, reasons.