"My very first knife" - post up!

Well this is one of four knives that I ground on my own when I bought my Burr King new in 1995 . Before that bought blades from Bob Engnath and finished them and handled them, and this is one of my last one's California style.P1010064.jpgP1010065.jpgIMG_0084.jpgIMG_0085.jpg
 
Here's my first knife. Used an old wood chipper blade. The only machine that came close to this knife was my hand drill to make the holes for the rivets. The rest was hacksaw, file and water paper, and a lot of sweat.
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This was my first. It was a piece of 1084 a friend gave me and I ground it on his Bader. I had the advantage of being a tool grinder for a large military tank repair facility for a while, so I had done a little grinding. After this first one I had the knifemaking bug, bought a Bader 2 and have been having fun ever since.
 
Tom, if thats really you in the picture I can see why you have a few physical problems especially the sagging left shoulder from holding up all those metals.
 
Sorry about that. Somebody sent me the picture and I can't get it off my computer for some reason. I've tried everything but sacrificing a goat, and that's next.
 
A natural born grinder. I can only imagine what you could do without a strained left shoulder from all those metals. :)
 
Bruce, the man, and I use the term loosely, in the picture showed up at Fort Benning for the graduation of his stepson. The report said he was never in the service, he's wearing ribbons from almost every branch of the service, the badges are all in the wrong place, had on a green beret, desert combat boots, and thinking he was General Patton. I was told he was escorted off post. I can't verify the story, but that's what I was told.
 
Bill Coye said:
Okay guys & gals, with all of the new members and makers it's time to bump this thread.

Post your FIRST knife.

Not one of your early "okay-this-one-is-good-enough-to-post" knives. Your FIRST knife.
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After looking at some of the "first" knives on this thread, I got to wondering... were none of you ever kids? First knives with fitted guards and engraving???... really?:9: What happened to all of those blades that you forged out of mystery steel... wasting all of your dad's gas through a rosebud to hammer (with a ball-peen) and "temper" what was likely unhardenable material? :shush: Where are the electrical-tape handles? :confused2:

Now I could post THIS KNIFE and call it my first... 'cuz I guess it is labeled #1... but that's misleading. It's the first knife that I made after learning the basics of how to make a knife.

Now my real first knife... it's probably not even remembered, let alone recorded in photos. But I do have this one. It's most certainly not the first... but it's fairly representative of the mischief that I got into 25-years ago in Dad's shop. :huh:

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If I dig around, I can probably even find a neck knife with an electrical-tape handle. :9:

Erin
 
If you put it that way... my "first" "knife"... and I use BOTH of those terms VERY loosely... was made entirely from paint stir sticks, blade and all. I cut the handle to shape, cut the blade, even "ground" the blade on a bench grinder. It was all put together with wooden dowels and superglue. Sort of a giant wooden slipjoint-looking mockup of a knife.

That was at about age 11 or 12.
 
Erin Burke said:
After looking at some of the "first" knives on this thread, I got to wondering... were none of you ever kids? First knives with fitted guards and engraving???... really?:9: What happened to all of those blades that you forged out of mystery steel... wasting all of your dad's gas through a rosebud to hammer (with a ball-peen) and "temper" what was likely unhardenable material? :shush: Where are the electrical-tape handles? :confused2:

Now I could post THIS KNIFE and call it my first... 'cuz I guess it is labeled #1... but that's misleading. It's the first knife that I made after learning the basics of how to make a knife.

Now my real first knife... it's probably not even remembered, let alone recorded in photos. But I do have this one. It's most certainly not the first... but it's fairly representative of the mischief that I got into 25-years ago in Dad's shop. :huh:

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If I dig around, I can probably even find a neck knife with an electrical-tape handle. :9:

Erin
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That looks alot like my first knife... broken jigsaw blade+bench grinder+army surplus piece of green 550 cord taken from my scout master's giant spool= 1st knife. Darn thing is still somewhere in my parents house and pops up from time to time like illusive snipe.
 
I've been out many snipe hunts in Boy Scouts. :)
Mike928 said:
That looks alot like my first knife... broken jigsaw blade+bench grinder+army surplus piece of green 550 cord taken from my scout master's giant spool= 1st knife. Darn thing is still somewhere in my parents house and pops up from time to time like illusive snipe.
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Erin Burke said:
After looking at some of the "first" knives on this thread, I got to wondering... were none of you ever kids? First knives with fitted guards and engraving???... really?:9: What happened to all of those blades that you forged out of mystery steel... wasting all of your dad's gas through a rosebud to hammer (with a ball-peen) and "temper" what was likely unhardenable material? :shush: Where are the electrical-tape handles? :confused2:

Now I could post THIS KNIFE and call it my first... 'cuz I guess it is labeled #1... but that's misleading. It's the first knife that I made after learning the basics of how to make a knife.

Now my real first knife... it's probably not even remembered, let alone recorded in photos. But I do have this one. It's most certainly not the first... but it's fairly representative of the mischief that I got into 25-years ago in Dad's shop. :huh:

4288763337_65704d45ef_z.jpg


If I dig around, I can probably even find a neck knife with an electrical-tape handle. :9:

Erin
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I really dig that leather wrapped handle. Good thinking.
 
Unfortunately I don't have a picture, but my first knife was an old Wenger SAK. It served its purpose well both at the campsite and at home.
 
I need to go take pictures of my first knife and second because my second was all done by myself. This thread has made me laugh in a good way. I look at the primitive crap that a most of you had made and know now of what your capable of its huge at the differences most makers have made over the cource of even as low as 3 years time. I have not been grinding alot due to my health but I have learned so much over the past 6 years. I have this forum to thank , kellyw
 
Kelly? You calling my knives crap? :)
Isnt it a wonderful thing to see how we have all improved over the years?
 
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