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Offline skarhand

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Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« on: January 15, 2014, 12:17:20 pm »
A friend and I used KHalverson's build along and made a couple of knives together. He did the shaping and metal work, and I did the handles and finish work. The blades are about 1/4" thick and the handles are bloodwood and yellowheart, with 1/8" brass pins.






These were made from pretty big files, so they are very heavy. Do you thin the files down a bit when you make them? Thanks for the build along it was very useful!

Joshua

Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2014, 12:32:59 pm »
Look good
they should last ya the rest of you life
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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2014, 01:37:01 pm »
Those look nice. I agree w/ BG, those babies arn't gonna wear out in your life time. Family heirlooms.  ;D dp
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Offline skarhand

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2014, 07:13:16 pm »
LOL, thanks. Because they are just plain steel how should I care for them? Just a bit of something like gun oil?

Offline RyanR

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2014, 07:39:52 pm »
Those turned out nice.

Offline KHalverson

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2014, 08:28:14 pm »
looks real good from here.
i rarely use files much over 1/8 thick for stock removal knives
unless im building a big knife.
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Offline seabass

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2014, 09:42:29 pm »
very nice work.gun oil will do just fine to keep the rust away.
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Offline Slackbunny

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2014, 11:58:34 am »
Nice knives. Good work.

Offline BOWMAN53

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2014, 12:23:24 pm »
thats awesome

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Re: Courtesy of "From file to knife"
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2014, 07:30:26 am »
Beautiful work,Got to love them. :)
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