Tanto | Knife of a friend
On Good Friday I invited a friend over. He has been hepling me with his expertise building my kiln, and other projects, so we decided it was time, to start his knife.
He came up with his own tanto design, he drew based on several existing knives.
Unfortunately for us, we forgot to film/photo his work, so I have only a few moments as evidence.
We pretty much forgot to film the drawing and cutting part, but hey.. we have some footage from grinding it :)
Material: O1 tool steel 40x3 mm stock
He cut the shape with a zip disc, and started shaping the knife with the double grinder.
Here is the final shape. Clean design, that features a very solid grip. He squared the edges with a Dremel Trio up. You can see the Dremel Trio upside down.
Beveling the knife with a filing jig. It was a nice experience to file a straight edge with this jig.
I filed only curved edges before, and I have to tell you, filing a straight edge is much much easier.
Filed down to necessary thickness.
You may not see it on this pic, but the knife is filed on both sides... Aaaaaand... it is perfectly symetric :D:D HURRAYYY!
Of course there are some deeeeep file marks on the bevel.
So here we are now, the blade is sanded to p240, ready for heat treat.
He came up with his own tanto design, he drew based on several existing knives.
Unfortunately for us, we forgot to film/photo his work, so I have only a few moments as evidence.
We pretty much forgot to film the drawing and cutting part, but hey.. we have some footage from grinding it :)
Material: O1 tool steel 40x3 mm stock
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| Grinding the shape of the tanto |
He cut the shape with a zip disc, and started shaping the knife with the double grinder.
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| Squaring the edges with Dremel Trio |
Here is the final shape. Clean design, that features a very solid grip. He squared the edges with a Dremel Trio up. You can see the Dremel Trio upside down.
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| Filing with the jig. Easy peasy |
Beveling the knife with a filing jig. It was a nice experience to file a straight edge with this jig.
I filed only curved edges before, and I have to tell you, filing a straight edge is much much easier.
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| Bevel ready on both sides. |
Filed down to necessary thickness.
You may not see it on this pic, but the knife is filed on both sides... Aaaaaand... it is perfectly symetric :D:D HURRAYYY!
Of course there are some deeeeep file marks on the bevel.
So here we are now, the blade is sanded to p240, ready for heat treat.
TO BE CONTINUED! :)
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