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Greetings folks.
I’ve been lucky enough through most of my adult years to be involved in, and have wide access to plenty of metal working and wood working tools and machinery and I describe myself as the atypical “jack of all trades and master of none”.
One of my favourite sayings is “what would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” and as I’ve been slowly adding to my repertoire of skills, I have now decided to add knife making to the list.
It’s not that I don’t have enough metal working projects, far from it!
Recently I was fortunate enough to inherit a very old British made anvil (approximately 240 pounds in weight) and a box of incredibly rusty bits of metal. Fortunately for me, it turns out many of these rusty bits of metal are heads of quite old blacksmith hammers and associated pincers, tongs and other relevant tools.
I’m slowly restoring these pieces and have been really pleased with the results! Soon, once I find my way around the forum I will post some before and after photo’s as I’m quite proud of how they have turned out.
My plan at this stage is to start with some hardened steel I obtained from a broken cutting disk off an industrial metal saw, and manufacture some fixed blade knives whilst I hone my skills.
Next up, once I build my forge, will be to start working on basic techniques and teach myself layering techniques and all the other good stuff. I’m a huge fan of pocket sized folders and ultimately I plan on making these, though will start off slowly.
If you’ve taken the time to read this, thanks, and I look forward to being an active contributor to the forum.
Cheers
I’ve been lucky enough through most of my adult years to be involved in, and have wide access to plenty of metal working and wood working tools and machinery and I describe myself as the atypical “jack of all trades and master of none”.
One of my favourite sayings is “what would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” and as I’ve been slowly adding to my repertoire of skills, I have now decided to add knife making to the list.
It’s not that I don’t have enough metal working projects, far from it!
Recently I was fortunate enough to inherit a very old British made anvil (approximately 240 pounds in weight) and a box of incredibly rusty bits of metal. Fortunately for me, it turns out many of these rusty bits of metal are heads of quite old blacksmith hammers and associated pincers, tongs and other relevant tools.
I’m slowly restoring these pieces and have been really pleased with the results! Soon, once I find my way around the forum I will post some before and after photo’s as I’m quite proud of how they have turned out.
My plan at this stage is to start with some hardened steel I obtained from a broken cutting disk off an industrial metal saw, and manufacture some fixed blade knives whilst I hone my skills.
Next up, once I build my forge, will be to start working on basic techniques and teach myself layering techniques and all the other good stuff. I’m a huge fan of pocket sized folders and ultimately I plan on making these, though will start off slowly.
If you’ve taken the time to read this, thanks, and I look forward to being an active contributor to the forum.
Cheers
Good luck with your knife making endeavour and i hope you enjoy ABF 
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