I decided to try my hand at knife making this week. Its with a 1/16" thick, rusty chunk of scrap metal I picked up, and cut to size along some pre-drilled holes for a width of just over 1".

The oal is around 11", and I think I'll be able to get about a 6.5" edge out of her.

I'm doing a wharncliffe blade and my thought is to give it a chisel grind so all I need to carry with it is a strop to keep it sharp. That may be subject to change though.

Here it is, still in rough form.


Just in case some of you aren't familiar with it, a wharncliffe design is what you see on utility knife razor blades. I'm just making a much larger, more gnarly version. I figure the length and grind would make it a reasonable compromise between a fighting and utility knife. A strop would also pack lighter than many stones. So goes my thinking.

I'm just gonna cord wrap the handle on this one.