{"id":953,"date":"2013-09-23T00:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2013-09-23T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T07:07:17","slug":"20130922-how-i-made-my-outdoor-hiking-bushcraft-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"2013\/09\/22 \u2013 How I made my outdoor \/ hiking \/ bushcraft knife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I started making knifes from various objects like truck leaf springs, coil springs, files, horse shoe’s, etc.
\nWith every knife there is progress, and I decided to make my “ultimate super duper awesome perfect sharp as a razor” knife for my outdoor trips.
\nNot so long ago I purchased a circular saw blade, and this seemed the perfect material for it.
\nSo here are the pictures I took during the creation of my new knife \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here is a rough drawing of the shape I wanted.
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With my good old ‘el cheapo’ angle grinder I managed to cut out the rough shape of the knife.
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Here it is, the rough shape.
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Using the grinder again to clean up the edges and take off the excess material.
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And here is the final outlined shape of the knife.
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Time to start with lots of filing…
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After lot’s of filing…
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Cleaning up the knife with a sander
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Looks nice this way, but still a lot of work to go.
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Although the filing was not much of a problem, the drilling was a problem, I could not get the drill to go through the 5 mm thick metal.
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So I build a small forge from fire resistant bricks and used my mini gas torch to make the handle red hot.
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After that I put it in wood ashes, to cool it down very slowly, so the metal stays soft.
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After it was cooled, the drilling was without any issue \ud83d\ude42
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Due to the different temperatures on the blade, I decided to quench it, first making it completely red hot comp, and then quench it in vegetables oil.
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No action pics of this sadly enough..
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After that some small cleaning up on the blade.
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Time to put it in the oven, first 1.5 hour cycle was on 175 celcsius, and nothing much happend.
\nSo I did a second 1.5 hour cycle and put it on 200 celcius, now the knife became a nice straw color.
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While the blade was hardening in the oven, I went outside to pick a piece of wood, and I settled with a nice piece of Oak.
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Cutting in to pieces,
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The blade was done in the oven, so time to clean it up again.
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Making the wooden oak scales to size.
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Drilling the holes in the wood, using the blade as a”guide”.
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And then with epoxy glued it all together. For the pins I used stainless steel.
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After 14 hours of drying, I started with finalizing the handle, first a rough file..
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Then the sander with different sanding parts.
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Then I let it soak for 48 hours in olive oil, which gives it a very nice “full” look to it.
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The it was time to make the leather sheath. With the knife all taped up, nothing could go wrong..
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All 3 parts I made soaking wet in hot water, and then shaped it and hold it in place till it cooled down.
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After that, time to drill the small holes for the stitching.
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And here is the result. The knife is perfectly laying in my hand. The sheath is not the prettiest, but it works as I wanted it to work though :-).
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Some time ago I started making knifes from various objects like truck leaf springs, coil springs, files, horse shoe’s, etc. With every knife there is progress, and I decided to make my “ultimate super duper awesome perfect sharp as a razor” knife for my outdoor trips. Not so long ago I purchased a circular saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-diy-projects","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}