Welcome to Operation: Let's Do This! Watch as your host creates or modifies oddities and objects with no mind to his own safety or sanity! If DIY content, product reviews, or apocalypse preparedness are on your brain-menu, then this is your place. He has a one-car garage, a handful of tools, and a gut full of moxie. Hasn't lost any fingers yet!
I'm having a hard time getting the handle off; even tried putting in vise but only scratched up the blade. Wish you had showed how. Can you give suggestions?
Lifelong trapper and woods bum, using a knife to baton wood for fires is just stupid and waste of time. Once in a while, I may split small wood for carving a spoon or spatula.
Ha! I watched out of simple curiosity, but wow...that is a slick piece of work, x2. Can't believe how cool they both turned out. Waaay too much work, but job well done.
On your second knife that you made I believe if you had put antler on it that would have been a nice knife. I shut it off short because of the music ?, or whatever you had for sound in the background, well I just couldn't take that sound anymore
Love both! I enjoy building / modifying things. This is deffinately something I will be trying since Im one of those that bought one. Think you should put out schematics for both so others can do the same. Keep up the good work!
This looks like the Maxam version instead of the Gordon version. The maxam knife has a zinc alloy handle that thinner than the Harbor Freight aluminum handle but still about as strong.
For what it's worth, according to the package, the blade is '3-CR-13 stainless steel construction'. There's a good-looking article on the substance on the 'Blade Protection' website.
People who talk-smack-against this knife are full-of-it ignoramuses. It actually takes a lot less work to stabilize and strengthen it than was shown here; the blade is strong; the mini-survival-kit is highly modifiable; the price is unbeatable [you can buy several of them for the same price as one "better" knife]; and, frankly, it's FUN to WORK-ON. I'm very happy with my purchase.
Hi! The black thing was a square of 1/4" plywood used as a base for the pieces. The frame measurement was big enough to account for the size of 8 tiles in a row, plus the 1/16" inch spacers in between the tiles. Not all tiles are the same size, so if you want to build your own you'll have to do the measurements yourself. In my case, the frame needed to exactly encompass a square of 15 and 3/8" inches. Thanks for watching!
I've heard of people doing that, and I think it would definitely be an improvement, but it wouldn't help with the handle snapping off at the hilt. I've never seen one that snapped like that but supposedly it can happen. Thanks for watching!
