With all the talk about blades around here lately I went poking around and turned up this simple primer on creating a single bevel blade from a file using simple tools and a dirt forge.in 4 parts: 302 Moved No high buck tools: he uses a simple camp fire to anneal the file; harden's it in a dirt forge( using char coals from the first fire)and he draws back the spine with a propane torch I'm sure its nothing like a pro makers' knife but simple primitive skills get me going..
What would MacGyver do? Yeah, I love that stuff, too. Hopeless Victim: "It's all over. We're surrounded." MacGyver: "Nah. Don't give up yet. Look. I have a pine cone, a tube of toothpaste, and a D cell battery. I have just conveniently located a brillo pad and a bottle of caustic acid under the sink moments ago, and if these bad guys continue to shoot at everything except me, I will have just enough time to create a less than lethal knockout gas cloud, granting us escape at the last second before the entire building erupts in flames." Hopeless victim: "Oh. Brilliant!" A sharpened butter knife makes a terriffic throwing knife.
Good vid... its amazing what you can do with some desire, ingenuity and hard work.... I like this kind of stuff... Thanks for posting...
You really don't need much to make a knife - I made my first with a drill, a hacksaw and files. Draw the outline of the blade, then drill holes just outside the line and hacksaw the remainder. File to complete the profile then file the blade. Very hard work, and after that first one I bought a grinder!