DIY Knife
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 3:44 pm
More than three months, tons of elbow grease, and truckloads of patience later, here's my latest DIY...... a copy of the Boker Plus Bob, The materials were sourced from members of Mumbai IFG CMG - Mirandaa wood plane blade from Pratik (the one-man knife factory); Wood for the handles supplied by Moin (the one-man knife encyclopedia). Design from the most Holy Google Guru.
Materials used:
Blade: Mirandaa wood plane blade
Handles: hardwood flooring tile
Fixing: Araldite
Sheath: leather
Design traced out on blade and cut out with Dremel diamond wheel, finished with sanding wheel.
Polished with sandpapers from 100 to 1200 grit (this is where the elbow grease came in), then with Dremel polishing wheels with red & green polishing compounds
Similar with handle, except that bench grinder was used to shape them. Polished with 4 coats of linseed oil manually rubbed in, over a period of 10 days. Then carnauba wax (car polish) impregnated into the wood by heating (missus' hair dryer) and hand rubbed (3 coats).
Sheath made by wet forming (that leather is good enough to make body armour - needs Dremel to cut!!). Subsequently oiled (Parachute Coconut oil), conditioned with Bata conditioner, and worked over with Bata neutral polish.
Since this is for my son, I have not given it a very sharp point. Currently sharpening with Lansky.
Materials used:
Blade: Mirandaa wood plane blade
Handles: hardwood flooring tile
Fixing: Araldite
Sheath: leather
Design traced out on blade and cut out with Dremel diamond wheel, finished with sanding wheel.
Polished with sandpapers from 100 to 1200 grit (this is where the elbow grease came in), then with Dremel polishing wheels with red & green polishing compounds
Similar with handle, except that bench grinder was used to shape them. Polished with 4 coats of linseed oil manually rubbed in, over a period of 10 days. Then carnauba wax (car polish) impregnated into the wood by heating (missus' hair dryer) and hand rubbed (3 coats).
Sheath made by wet forming (that leather is good enough to make body armour - needs Dremel to cut!!). Subsequently oiled (Parachute Coconut oil), conditioned with Bata conditioner, and worked over with Bata neutral polish.
Since this is for my son, I have not given it a very sharp point. Currently sharpening with Lansky.
