Thickness

[Rick Otts]

I am looking to order some steel soon.I am looking to make hunting knifes using 1084.Now for the thickness I was thinking 3/16 am I correct on that?

 

[John Wilson]

i like 1/8 personally


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[Self Made Knives]

For my hunters, I stay with 1/8" or maybe 5/32" if it's a wide, full flat grind skinner. Save the 3/16" for camp choppers.

 

[Rick Otts]

Thanx for the money saving tip

 

[aelgin]

5/32" is my favorite for hunting and skinning knives.

-Aaron

 

[Justin Presson]

I like 1/8" for hunters and 3/32" for small capers and detail knives.

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[EdCaffreyMS]

I assume that everyone who has mentioned what I consider "thin" stock is because the blades are being produced via the stock removal method? From a forging perspective, I always recommend 1/4" stock. I teach and build knives from the viewpoint.... "You can always take steel away if you have too much, but if you don't have enough, you can never put it back."

I suspect it's simply the different mentalities between forging and stock removal.... its very easy for me to take a thicker piece of steel and forge is to the thickness I desire.... but it's nearly impossible for me to make a thin piece of steel thicker. Nearly everything I make begins as 1/4" or thicker.