How To Build A Knife

At a glance..

The benefit of building your own knife is that you can design a knife that is suitable to your needs. This manual give information on shaping and bonding wood, bone, horn, steel.

The details..

Shaping and Bonding Wood, Bone, Horn, Steel is a comprehensive guide on designing and making custom knives. Written by Jim Small - an expert in knife-making - it covers everything from transferring designs onto steel to creating guards and grinding the blade. This book is perfect for anyone interested in learning about knife-making or looking to improve their skills.

The first few steps of making a custom knife involve designing your ideal blade on paper before transferring it onto a template made from hard material such as plexiglass or sheet metal. Once you have transferred your design accurately onto the template using scribing tools like Dye-Kem dye that tool-and-dye makers use; cut out your design carefully so that you can profile the edge precisely.

After profiling the contours of your newly designed blade comes fitting its guard which could be made from brass nickel/German silver or stainless-steel materials depending on preference. The author recommends starting with 1/4

wide x 1% long then cutting two lines down its center at 3/16

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