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Tutorials - Making 3 small knives
with filework
How I make my filework on knives.
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Some
designs I drew to see what I wanted to make. (Pictures
1, 2 and 3)
Knife designs drawn on the steel bars. (Pictures 4
and 5)
Comparing sizes with a small blade I use to cut leather,
as that's the lenght I wanted for this knives. (Pictures
6 and 7) |
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Picture 2 |
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Picture 3 |
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Picture 4 |
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Picture 5 |
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Picture 6 |
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Picture 7 |
Designs
on steel and the first roughly ground blade. (Picture
8)
Grinding a blade. (Picture 9)
Blade after grinder. The knife starts to show from the
steel. (Picture 10)
Drilling the steel for the pins and to lighten the weight
of the overall finished knife. (Picture 11)
Drawing some blueprints for the filed thumb rests. (Pictures
12, 13, 14 and 15) |
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Picture 9 |
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Picture 10 |
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Picture 11 |
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Picture 12 |
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Picture 13 |
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Picture 14 |
First
marking for the filed thumb rests. (Picture 16)
After the initial markings with the saw, it comes the
file. (Picture 17)
Filed thumb rest. (Pictures 18 and 19)
All three filework models (thumb rests are finished, the
end ones still not) (Pictures 20 and 21) |
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Picture 16 |
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Picture 17 |
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Picture 18 |
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Picture 19 |
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Picture 20 |
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Picture 21 |
Blades
almost ready for heat treatment. (Picture 22)
Knife almost ready for heat treatment. (Picture 23)
After the first tempering, I made a second one at lower
temperatures to relief tensions. (Picture 24)
Knives after heat treatment. (Picture 25)
3 blades already heat treated with a first polish. (Picture
26)
One of the blades ready to receive the slabs and bolsters.
(Picture 27)
Cutting the CF. (Picture 28) |
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Picture 24 |
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Picture 25 |
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Picture 26 |
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Picture 27 |
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Picture 28 |
Drilling
the CF for the pins. (Picture 29)
Presenting a piece of CF on an already bolstered knife.
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