Full Tang Knife Build Along

[Ddog]

now the next picture is marking the sides evenly with the caliper just hard enough to mark the steel then i go over it with a black felt.

[Ddog]

here is the would be knife clamped in the ricasso

[Ddog]

now my wife says i must stop all the running around seeing that i just got home from the hospital, been in since wednesday, needed some heart things done and checked on.
more to come tomorrow......cheers

[Brambles]

Ddog, did you make the scribe or buy it? I gotta get something like that.

[Ddog]

that scribe i bought, however, if i knew at the time thats all that it was i would have made one.

[Brambles]

Sorry to hear about the trip to the hospital. Hope everything works out well.

[Ddog]

heres the notched 2x4 this is so the knife can sit flat on the surface
the second picture is the knife securely clamped in place
third picture,,let the filing begin, try to determine the angle needed to hit both lines at the same time, the felt line on the blade and the top scribed line on the edge.

[Ddog]

OK,,now that side 1 is finished with the b a s tard file its time to hit it with the mill file just to take out the deep scratches
in this sequence of pictures: pic 1 is showing the blade filed to the black lline we drew.
pic 2 is showing that it is filed just slightly above our scribed line on the edge, this is so when we use the mill file we will go down to the line.
pic 3 is showing just how deep the scratches really are, eventually those should be gone!

[silvertipp]

thanks for the post dog great info

[Ddog]

lots more to come,,keep reading, the best is when the knife gets to the 600 grit sand paper!!! its starts getting real shiny then!!