More knifes

[najad]

As i was not satisfied with the performance of first knife (blade material was not good) i decided to make another one from an old unused rusty knife which was made out of spring steel. i started the work by softening it to work with hand tools, then i cut it with hacksaw and then using files i shaped it to desired design. (in the beginning the metal was not soft enough and one file got damaged,its was a cheap Chinese file and i got material for my third knife , so i again soften it) after filing i sanded the surface with 80 grit sandpaper to removed irregularities in surface and made the handle with teak wood.
here is the picture of my second knife

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after one one week i made my third knife with metal file

3rd knife1.JPG

3rd knife2.JPG

3rd knife3.JPG

3rd knife4.JPG

after this i decided to copy a swamp rat knife and i bought an angle grinder to make my works more easy . it saved lot of time in my work on fourth knife with spring steel

original knife

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mine
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vTtY ... knife1.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-R7Q0 ... knife2.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-jG5t ... knife3.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-g89c ... knife4.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8xWG ... knife5.JPG

my next knife would be a folding knife