Awesome! I know what you mean. I've dabbled a little. Have 2 knives laying around right now that I've been "working on" for about 10 years 🤣. I understand. Started on them, the house ate them, they turned back up, but I was busy with other stuff....😮💨
Love to see some of your projects sometime!
Oh the fireplace challenge. Had someone run his mouth at me that I couldn't make a knife. I drank back then and ego blew up.
Sourced a smooth face 4 lb hammer. As well as a chunk of railroad tie. A little bit of duct tape and a expendable metal tube attached to a hair dryer put on cold low. And of course that slid into the crack of the fireplace. Which had an extremely deep bed of coals because I had baked a ton of wood very carefully.
I ended up doing a perfect distal taper. Amazing job perfectly well done ready to grind.
However I'm really bad at hilts. And I didn't put any forging into hilt fittings. And it just stuck around forever. I'd come across it as well as enjoy the perfect distal taper. The lovely high-pitched ring that the excellent knife steel became after being worked heated and shaped.
Yeah I actually have my own design which ironically looks nothing like what I see from other individuals and while it has limitations it also has other functions.
Yes I absolutely need to get it moving.
Biggest part is I need to shut up and just throw a hilt on it and slap it quick sheath on because the excellent kydex holster systems have come a long way.
Yeah I absolutely got to start getting things done so I think I'm going to take out some time this weekend.
Nice! Oh yea! I'm sure you could go back and fix that hilt and make it a nice sheath.
You should! Post some pics when your done!
I've got a lot of design as well as getting together the proper tools that I'm going to need to make sheaths as well as make knives and then that tomahawk project is another big huge situation. Sure you can do anything you want but doing it right takes a little bit.
And if I start doing knives that means I got to do correct profiles. Jigs to be able to save time instead of doing everything by hand. And then of course the time to do it all!!!!
Was really hoping I'd get a buddy of mine to help out however he just got another two and a half years in jail. So it's going to be an extended time period until I have backup. Sigh. Let alone marketing and sales of my products.
True. The harder the fight, the greater the glory!
I'm sure you could get something going! The trick is having the discipline to keep picking at the problems consistently. Start with the small, easy stuff. Get the jigs made, maybe.
By the time he gets out, you might be able to put him straight to work!