I don't understand all of the hoopla over these knives? They are ugly, utilitarian inexpensive kitchen knives without much appeal even in the kitchen. The handles are the ugliest thing about the knife too. Why waste your time doing this modification, unless it is to practice your knife making skills.
Nice work! I found the background music annoying, but I have a mute button. Lol. But a good looking knife! When I did a similar project I put curly maple scales on it, but the liners look great.
Please explain something too me. WHY would you take a perfectly weel designed knife blade, fully functioning, without issue, and destroy it, making it less of a knife, less of a functioning tool, stripping it of its resources and with effort and time spent....turn it into less of a knife? I understand making a knife, but to do this to a really good knife, and to make a good knife into a less good knife....I do not get that?
Just modded mine. Shaped it like a Kellam Tracker and ground the handle more barrel. Great knife. Added a d ring and belt loop to the stock sheath. You did a great job.
You did great work…but it is a sin to modify an old hickory blade! Could have cut that pattern out of a circular saw blade and done the same project…not destroy a perfectly designed knife blade to do it!
Perfectly designed? I have that exact knife that was my dads, its older than me and i am 45. I have never used it because its a design i dont have a use for. I use scimitar style blade for butchering so this just sits in my knife bag.
Mine is a 5 3/8 inch blade old hickory,I guess it's original. Hate to see you ruin a perfect knife but it's yours. If you were to roll around mine in your hand like that you might loose a finger.
Thank you for the review. I have one on the way. I've been a coal forge smith for a long time. Getting harder to find good smithing coal that is reasonably priced. Since most of my work is small ornate items, I believe this will work fine.
Too keep the blade part cool while I annealed (softened) the tang so I could drill the pin holes to attach the handle scales. The file is hardened steel and I didn’t want to soften the whole thin because I had no way to re-harden it again. Thanks for watching. 👍
@@bigguybushcraft5111 trying to learn as much as I can. Sometime il be attempting to make my first knife from a file. Sure won't look perdy like everyone's videos but I wanna be sure I don't mess too much up.
Very good video, great music and well produced. Very few people realize just how useful an old hickory can be and you did an excellent job of modifying it with great attention to detail.
Not like it was 35+ years ago. Back then, fire dept would hose down the bike gangs to get them back in check. Nothing but bikers, chicks, beer, and great fun. Now it’s more like a carnival for the family. 🤨
I guess to each his own. If I had done it,..........I would have cut the blade the way I wanted it,.. stop. Then I would have removed the handles,.... trashed them. Then I would have shaped and sharpened the blade. I would have found a very light skid,.......cut handles out,... glued them together to get the right thickness. At the rear of the blade I'd center punch it and use a step drill bit till it was a 3/8 hole. Then I would drill the handle holes,.....stop. Then I'd 1) make sure that the front was even. 2) countersink the 3/8 hole Now the blade is done I mock it up,.... pins in place,...... cover the blade with masking tape,.......then with visegrips I clamp 3/16 bar stock there so both handles are held even,.....I take the pin holes and on the inside wallow them out for epoxy. Then I epoxy them on,......I put 3/8 copper tubing in the 3/8 hole making sure no epoxy is in the counter sink. The epoxy has dried for 2 days,.....I put a tapered punch in the 3/8 hole and put some epoxy around the countersink and hit it till it conforms. Then I repeat on the other side. When its dry I use a angle grinder with a rubber backing and a 80 grit sanding disc to remove the pins and shape it,... then a file then sand paper then I finish it.
Yup I agree, this was my first attempt at doing anything with a knife other than sharpening. I definitely rushed through the process making it up as I went along. I did it all in a weekend. I’ve learned a lot since I posted this video. I should do try it again. I know it would turn out much better. Thanks for watching and commenting. 👍
