My First Knife

[mxlj]

Well here is my first knife. It is made from hardened planter blades.

 

[CTaylorJr]

First knife this month or ever?

GREAT looking first knife! Only an inch or so of my first looked that good!

Give us a bit more detail:

Length, scales, etc, etc, etc...

Looking forward to seeing more from you!

Charlie

 

[LR Adkins]

Very nice for a first knife. Great job.

Larry

 

[Ernie Swanson]

If thats your first you better go make more!!!!

Thats an awesome job, The polish turned out nice!!2thumbs

 

[Sean Jones]

That's excellent. I hope my first one turns out that good. Still working on it.

 

[naifu]

Who knew they put so much shine in planter blades! Great job.

 

[Deltashooter]

"Who knew they put so much shine in planter blades!" Farmers

Looks great for a first knife. We do need some details,please.

 

[Josh Dabney]

+1 on everyones comments. Knife looks FANTASTIC !

I do feel compelled to ask if you put a welt in the sheath ?

It could just be the pic but I thought I'd mention that a sheath without a welt is VERY dangerous !

Again GREAT work on that knife !

-Josh

 

[Bennie Lovejoy]

Very nice for your first. Can't wait to see more.

 

[bootstrap]

looks good. now its time to get out and use it. lets us know how it performs.

 

[mxlj]

Thank you all for the kind comments. the knife is 6.5" long overall, with 3" blade. Scales are beautiful Redwood burl from Burlsource.

 

[mxlj]

+1 on everyones comments. Knife looks FANTASTIC !

I do feel compelled to ask if you put a welt in the sheath ?

It could just be the pic but I thought I'd mention that a sheath without a welt is VERY dangerous !

Again GREAT work on that knife !

-Josh

As i am still new to knife making and dont know, what are the dangers of not having a welt? That particular sheath did not have one. Right now i am making a new one for it, that is more of a pouch type sheath.

 

[Josh Dabney]

Mxlj,

The danger of no welt is there is nothing to protect the stitching from being cut when inserting and removing the knife. Or even if you were to take a fall while wearing it I suppose an awkward stress like that could easily push the blade right between the front and back splitting the stitches.

There are quite a few sheath tutorials floating around. Check in the top few threads in the sheathmaking section.

http://www.knifedogs.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

Here's a good one that shows pics of the welt-

http://www.mickleyknives.com/html/sheath_1.html

Take care,

Josh