Hi from Brisbane

[Guest]

Hi guys,

I've been shadowing the forum for about 2 months now and figured it's about time I said G'day.

I'm pretty new to the technicalities of knives but like most young lads, I've liked them since I was a little tyke. From what I can tell here there is a wealth of knowledge and experience, so I'm looking forward to learning a lot more.

Mostly at this stage I'm interested in decent quality EDC and some high-entry-level hunting gear. Anyone with useful pointers for a new bloke, your advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Daniel

[Toolish]

welcome aboard, good to see you out of the shadows of the forum ;-)
I guess the big question for you will be do you want to make these knives you are after or just buy them? Or I guess you could also buy and then modify.

[Stewart Townsend]

Welcome Aboard

[Del Raso Knives]

Welcome to ABF Daniel.

[Dutchy357]

Welcome!!

G'day Daniel

Welcome to the forum!

Glad you came in from the cold!

Anything you want to know. Just ask! Some one will come along with an answer for you.

Dutchy

[splinters041]

Welcome to ABF Daniel

[Alicia LeCroix]

Welcome to ABF Daniel I look forward to seeing your contributions to the forum

[Mikrofon]

Welcome to ABF mate.

[International]

Gday Daniel welcome to the Abf.

[DanielC]

welcome aboard, good to see you out of the shadows of the forum ;-)
I guess the big question for you will be do you want to make these knives you are after or just buy them? Or I guess you could also buy and then modify.

That's a good question actually, and to be honest I'm not sure I know enough to answer it yet.

My personal tastes (in knives as well as everything else) tend toward actually making/building something myself rather than buying it, but I seem to be collecting a lot of new hobbies over the last year or so, so I don't know how I'd go in terms of having enough time. But I love the idea of being able to customise things to be exactly how I want, or to design things from the ground up.

For a novice to start to make fixed blades from decent quality steel, how hard and time consuming is it to do a decent job? Personally I'd rather know before I get involved, because if it takes a fair commitment I'd rather get a pro to do it rather than do a half-arsed job myself. Any advices?

Same with folders. I have a couple things I'd really like to do but the folders look so complicated to get the tolerances fine enough.

[RelaxedCat]

Welcome to the forums mate!

[jt75]

G'day daniel. Welcome to the fold. Good to have you here.