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By GruffaloGriff
This is one my son has had on the go for a while. The wrought iron is a piece i pulled out of a skip, just thought it was mild steel rod, only realized when it was being forged into a pair of tongs. The tongs got abandoned and the wrought iron put to a better use. The blade is leaf spring from a series 2 landy.
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Now Complete.
Blade: Spring steel with satin finish and domed mirror polished spine. Length five and a half inches (145mm), width one and a half inches (38mm), thickness 3/16 (5mm).
Handle: Utile handle scales on wrought iron frame with copper pins. Wrought iron fittings with copper spacers. Take down construction.
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By GruffaloGriff
Recently finished this knife. I made it for a "knife in the hat" draw over on EM forum.
The style is Kiridashi so ground on one side only with the other flat like a chisel. Ideal for cutting leather or anything else where you would run the blade along a straight edge.
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By GruffaloGriff
This blade is made from motorbike chain hand forged on to a leaf spring core. I have experimented a few times with chain Damascus but this is the cleanest weld yet, not perfect but it has character. Very hard to eliminate all the voids in the chain beating it by hand...even though i spent probably half a day hammering away on it.... I will make a press one day.
I had a smaller knife in mind when i started out but wanted to maximize the lump of rough forged "Damascus" I ended up with so it determined the size & shape of the final blank.
The blade is 7.5 inches and handle approx 4.5 so overall something like a 12" Knife.
Handle is Scottish red stag and the bolster/ pommel are stacked brass & copper soldered together.
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By GruffaloGriff
Heard a while back mention of sharpening with MDF wheels but never really paid much attention. I recently thought i would give it a go and turned up a quick MDF wheel on the face-plate of my wood-working lathe. I clamped a makeshift guide to the back of the lathe and worked with the wheel turning away from me. I was blown away by the results! Super sharp paper slicey edge straight off the wheel.
Decided a dedicated MDF wheel sharpener was high on the list of must haves so started gathering bits. I was lucky enough to pick up an old 8" Makita bench grinder on ebay for £25. Everything else is made from scrap bits so that was all the outlay for the build.
I took the guards off the grinder, swapped the switch and the power cable around so the on/off switch is effectively now on the back so the grinder can be operated with the wheels running away from you.
The knife clamp is made from an old door hinge welded to a bit of rod off of some other power tool, hence the nice grippy knob on the end. A 6mm hex bolt through the hinge clamps the knife in place. A cutting of hex bar slides up and down to alter the angle of grind and locks in place with another allan bolt.
Once set up to the desired angle the blade can be sharpened on both sides and both wheels quickly without altering anything.
The MDF wheels are loaded with grey polishing compound and jewelers rouge respectively.
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By GruffaloGriff
Here is the UK legal carry Opinel mod slip-joint i have been working on.
I dropped the point on the original no8 blade and shortened it to 3"
The slightly unusual shape was determined by the central pivot point and steps in the original blade. You can see this from the pre-assembly pic. Although it looks slightly unusual it has the advantage of giving a shoulder to place your thumb on which actually holds the slipjoint spring in making it even more solid and less likely to fold up on your fingers than a normal slipjoint design.
Milled brass liners with soldered bolsters and stabilized stag scales, all fixed together with stainless pins with the exception of the brass rivets on the scales.
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