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springer82

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When I was little I would sit in my fathers workshop and whittle wooden knives. More then a few years have gone by. Now I would enjoy making the real thing. I have enough tools to get by. That was the easy part. Now for the hard part. Skill level. I will thank everyone in advance for the time they spend answering my questions. I am looking forward to learning all I can here. There are a lot of very talented people on this site. One again,,, thank you for your time!!
 
Welcome! If you turn back now, you might stand a chance to save some money.... ;)

I fondly recall piddling around in my dad's workshop as a young boy. He was a woodworker, and at the time I'd mostly just watch him work, or hammer a majority of his "spare" nails into the nearest piece of "scrap"... haha.
I remember the very first time I ever even considered making a knife. Being a woodworker, my dad didn't have any steel flat stock, so I looked around the shop, and I used the only steel I could find: a piece of 1/8" walled, 2" square tube. I wore out an entire grinder wheel trying to cut one of the sides off to then profile into a knife.... Too bad the thing curled up like a pretzel by the time I got it cut off. I quickly realized that square tube is not an idea candidate for knife making, and kind of set aside all ideas for being a great knife maker until years later when I happened upon a couple of threads on a knife forum, including one about building a No Weld Grinder Sander.

The rest is history....
 
You make some very nice knives Steve. God,,, I wish I lived in Fl. I have a lot to learn. I'm sure being that it is -12 deg has nothing to do with it!!! Got room for a guest. lol
 
Thank you Ed. Sounds like we think alike. Not knowing how to do something has never stopped me yet. You just have to stop and think about what you have to do. It does not heart to have people to fall back on when there is a problem.
 
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