[Thomp]

years ago, A buddy that has a shop and sells on ebay, gave me a broken pocket knife, well i gave him a nickle for it,
the knife had a broken spring and was useless, i was digging in a junk drawer and up from the bits and pieces popps up this knife, i didnt know where it came from until i inspected it.

it was one of several he had bought off the television or ebay, the no name brand, it had the test mark where it was rockwell tested to 60 on the blade so i thought it might make a good carving knife,


see them here

well i been cut, stabbed, ground, skint, and scraped. today and epoxied today but i think i got 2 nice knives photos from earlier today when they was really ugly
but the blades are now epoxied in handles and the knives are curing so photos to come... of finished knives with polished blades maybe tomorrow the sharp exposure of blades are 2" and 1-1/4" blades are the narrow, after removing the thumb nail pull wasnt left with much blade so there less than 1/16"thick and 1/4" from backbone to cutting edge,
im thinking i may change the 2" to a more flat taper detail style...

[Thomp]

mounted -painted like a bananna 2" second image fools ya but the blades 1-1/4" Done and sharp...

[Canopener]

Thomp, i think you got your five cents worth! 2 nice looking blades, look sharp also.
As far as the banana paint job; well, hmmm, I think it is original.
(April fools is over isn't it)

All that matters is how it cuts anyway!
Jim

[windsong]

HI Thomp
What is the metal that you made the blade out of.I order one of Ron Wells knifes but till it comes in i'm using a X-Acto and i can tell you for sure that X-Acto sure is not much to carve with!!!
Vic.

[windsong]

I answered my own question.You know you not supposed to start reading in the middle of the Thread START AT THE TOP
Vic.

[Eddy Smiles]

Nice knives! You deffinitly got your money's worth. I like the handle of the one on the right. That's the shape that I prefer for a knife handle. I made two myself just like it only I used red cedar. They sure are pretty!

[gene messer]

Good looking knife's Thomp .. Would mine having those around ..

[Thomp]

Originally Posted by Canopener

Thomp, i think you got your five cents worth! 2 nice looking blades, look sharp also.
As far as the banana paint job; well, hmmm, I think it is original.
(April fools is over isn't it)

All that matters is how it cuts anyway!
Jim

jim,
the paint was just a way to identify them, guess a soak in ammonia would remove it, its just acrylic and acrilic sealer,
i got a pile of knives, and the ones that the handle aint carved are hard to distinguish,when there in a rack or stuck in a box so i thought to paint them

i guess there all worth a nickle,
Tom H IM'ed me and mentioned he would look for a pocket knife to do the same with.
I still owe him a big favor for the noahs ark he sent my grand children, its been the center of attention,

tom wanted to try flat plane carving and it took a special long thin blade to do it,
there is another blade from the same knife that i did'nt modify, just set it into a couple walnut slabs and epoxied togather, you can still see the thumb nail groove,, i did modify the handle after these 2 were taken, because its a 1" short blade.
.

[Thomp]

Originally Posted by windsong

HI Thomp
What is the metal that you made the blade out of.I order one of Ron Wells knifes but till it comes in i'm using a X-Acto and i can tell you for sure that X-Acto sure is not much to carve with!!!
Vic.

vic,

these were a 3 blade pocket knife that had a broken henge spring, it couldnt be sold
although the knife was brand new and the blade still had the sticker and test mark where it was rockwell tested to 60 points on it, it couldnt be fixed, so i give him a nickle and made carving knives out of it.

i have 10 short tanged knives i use often and only had one fail but it was because of the way i was prying with it, in a sideways pressure that not many knives are designed to withstand. i was opening a persimmon pit with a twisting pushing pressure and i got rewarded with a new bandaid... lesson 1001.
i prefer to make slab handles and inset the blade as well as using a metal band when i can, but some knives and blades dont allow the metal band.

tool steel can be ordered from enco or other machinist supply houses it comes with tech sheets and is dead soft annealed, you shape your blade with hacksaw and files, and send it off for tempering, usually its too much sugar for a nickle for most carvers to go through, as it might take up to 6 months to get it returned, but the results will make you a knife second to none.

Vic check at hobbie lobby and micheals for excell blades, there about twice as thick as exacto, a little harder, you will spend a about as much time maintencing them as you do with carving, but there cheap and will do untill your ron wells knife comes in. if thats not the way you want to go , look at micheals they have walnut hollow i think $16.00 sunday papers advertize 50% off anything in the store, clip the copond and get you a chip knife under $10,00

[Thomp]

Eddie and gene

the flexcut shaped handle fits my old cramped hands best, the one shown is maple or birch, i never got the answer on what it was, its hard as can be, and the shape allows me to drill a secession of holes to make a socket for the blade and epoxi to be filled into, them that can be pinned i pin them for safety.

the bananna handle is some misyory wood from a crate, appears to be from the mahogany family,. the dust makes you sneeze anyway. its the same material the last posted tonight is made of.

yawl keep up the good comments and im gonna get a po box and a web site i can offer my knives on... or start putting them on ebay... and deal with the general public, but thats highly unlikely... that folks would want to buy something no better than a quality prizon shiv' HAW!

thanks for all the nice comments, Q's and support.