how too make a recycled knife!

[fishfish 17]

inspired by a thread on a bowhunting forum,i decided to make a sheath knife suitable for rabbits and fish.in the original thread a circular saw blade was used apparently its a very good steel.so i rummaged in the shed and came up with an old circular saw blade from the old black and decker.

next thing was to sand the rust off.

next the area to be cut needed masking.

then i had to decide on a design,not wanting an exact copy of the inspiration i changes several angles,and finally ended up wit a nice drop point blade design.

next was to cut it out with the dremmel,using a fiber cutting disk on maximum speed.

heres the rough cut blank needing a go round with the sander on the dremmel.

next was to select materials for the handle or as known in the knife making world 'scales'.having a vast range of woods and other materials about i decided on a base of ebony laminated with some nice dexter bull bone,the creamy ivory look of the bone should be enhanced with the real ebony.

the bone scales were cut out of the thicker side of the dexter bone and sanded flat here they are laid out next to the blade.

 

my new sander turned up so i got on with shaping the scales and sticking the bone to the ebony scales.

tomorrow when the glue has set i will start shaping them,also on the list of jobs to do is heating up the tang of the blade so that is loses temper and i can drill it ready for the brass pins.

i had to heat the blade inorder to un-temper it so i could drill the 2 holes for the brass pins to secure the handle.

 

 

after that i successfully drilled the holes.

 

 

after this I temporarilly affixed the scales so i could ensure a good fit by sanding.

 

 

which i did with my new fangled sander.

 

 

and here they are in the rough so to speak.

 

 

the next task was to fit the scales permanantly,i used the contact adhesive then the brass pins were inserted and hammered in.then they were cut and sanded flush.so here it is near to completion,the shape it set.

 

 

and here it is now ille spend a couple of hours with very fine sand paper and then polish!

 

 

and here it is !!!!!!!!!!! blade and scales polished to a mirror finish,the photo doesnt do it justice realy!

 

 

i had great fun making this and ive also made a good few others from saw blades heres a couple:

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fis.../IMAG0002-5.jpg

thanks for looking.

Edited December 29, 2007 by fishfish

[Gin 500]

Quality work. Good useful knives.

[Kay 3,709]

Wow your a clever bunny thats brilliant, its inspired me to make something now

[lost scouse 46]

QUALITY MIGHT JUST HAVE A A GO AT THAT GOOD THREAD

[Deker 3,478]

Fish

 

"cut it out with the dremmel,using a fiber cutting disk on maximum speed"

 

How did that go, was it easy or hard, those circular saw blades are usually made of pretty tuff stuff?

 

Cheers

 

Deker

[stitch 2]

excellent very good

[fishfish 17]

  Deker said:

Fish

 

"cut it out with the dremmel,using a fiber cutting disk on maximum speed"

 

How did that go, was it easy or hard, those circular saw blades are usually made of pretty tuff stuff?

 

Cheers

 

Deker

 

it was relatively easy on this sized plade,on the bigger saw blades ie 2-3mm thick i use a grinder then finish off the shaping with a bench grinder and a linisher. it realy is fun using a knife made by yer own hand.

[Guest Bigbob]

That looks a nice bit of kitt mate

[Nobby 65]

Good post fish some nice knifes you make

[Guest bullterrier]

well done to you some nice knifes there mate and if it gets some one else trying to make there own good post fishfish ...john

[FUBAR 0]

Well done good looking work

[Netter 0]

Fishfish, have you used one of those knives long term? because the saw blades will be case hardened steel, once you have normalised them to drill them, it would be tricky to get the temper back in them without the knife being too hard nor too soft, so I wondered what process do you follow to harden and temper the blade? what do you cool them out in? and once you get a good edge on the knife does it last?

[Malt 379]

Nice work there, FF. Netter, he only normalised the tang, not the blade!

[DUCKWING 302]

WELL FISH ,

 

NICE KNIVES MATE , LOOK REAL HANDY USERS ! ,

 

A GOOD POINT HAS BEEN RAISED THERE ABOUT THE RE TEMPERING OF A BLADE ......... IVE MADE A KNIFE FROM AN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE PLANER KNIFE , VERY VERY HARD STEEL .. BUT SOMETHING I COULD GET HOLD OF EASILY ... WITHOUT A DOUBT FOR A GENERAL USER KNIFE STEEL CAN BE TOOOOO HARD , BEING BOTH BRITTLE AND HARD TO GET AN EDGE ON .....HOWEVER THE AMOUNT OF STEEL LIEING AROUND RUSTING IS JUST TOO GOOD AN OPPERTUNITY TO MISS

 

 

HERES MY SCANDI INSPIRED RECYCLED PLANER BLADE

 

 

 

NICE IN THE HAND ..................... HANDLE IS AFRICAN PADUK , WITH COINS OF EBONY AND CURLY BIRCH WITH RED VULCANISED FIBRE SPACERS ....... ..... OH ..... AND BRASS BOLSTER MADE FROM A RECYCLED FIRE SIDE SHOVEL

 

 

 

 

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

 

ALL THE BEST

 

DUCKWING

[MikeTheDog 153]

I'm impressed! ...Very good knifes there!

Edited December 30, 2007 by MikeTheDog