Thanks again everyone! When the kit gets here I am going to try to take lots of pictures and have a WIP thread.
I haven't completed any knives. So I rather hope this will be my first to make it all the way through 2thumbs
I have a sears belt/disc sander, an old drill press, and my handy dandy dremel tool with a multitude of discs and wheels.
I know for a fact I can cut the blade into the shape I want. I've gotten pretty good at that. Then comes the pre-heat treat flat grinding. Thats where things have gotten messy for me. But I'm hopeful. 2thumbs
While I wait for the kit, I'm going to do some drawings.
I want to make a good camp knife with these qualities in mind:
Can do food prep:
Can do light chopping:
Can do light batoning:
Can make sticks into pointy sticks:
Is a viable option for cleaning fish:
Is not a bowie: (I just don't like bowies)
So design wise I'm thinking:
1. Nessmuk
2. A curvy survival knife like the Grohmann survial knife. (Looks kinda like a Nessmuk with more belly.
3. Something that looks like a Mora or Puukko.
When I get the designs out of my head and into the computer I'll actually start the WIP thread and paste them there. Boy, this is gonna be fun.
