How to make Fillet Knife from Hand Saw blade. DIY. 

I found that if you are using previous blades to make your own blade it helps to heat treat the places where you are going to drill your rivet holes. A nice cherry red & then allow to cool. This helps to soften up the handle area and hence it is easier to drill.

What a marvelous instruments!!!

That a great idea, making a filet knife of a saw blade, great video....

Excellent

Hello! Nice knife i have one piece of advise. Hardend steel is very difficult to drill and before I learned how to do it I burned up several drill bits. I searched youtube and learned this trick. Next time you need to driil get a pan of water and suspend the blade part under water to keep it cool then use a torch to heat up the spots you need to drill. Heat the spots to a glowing red and set aside to cool. This will take the temper out in those areas and make it much easier to drill whole the blade part will retain it's hardness.

Very nice I will try to manufacture like him

Very good! Thank you.

Excelente trabajo

I like the easy way some people's like to make every thing completed not every one had all the tools

Hey bloke I have learned a lot from you and am going to make my own videos soon starting with my 2X72 belt grinder I think that if you talked and explained what you are doing you would get a lot more likes

amazing wonderful

Nice

Awesome..good idea.

nice design

I have made a few of these and ruined a drill bit or two drilling through the tang. You can apply heat to the site of the tang holes until you get to a blue-purple color using a propane torch which softens the tang enough to drill through easily without compromising the hardness of the cutting blade.

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that is awesome

Nice Jobb

great job weldone! greetings from Holland.

Im going to try this. Have you used it to filet a fish yet and also how does it hold an edge? Cool video

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2 things. 1st, clamp thin metal. I was just thinking when I saw you drill, man if that thing catches, then BAMM. Safety first. 2nd, and I'm not sure if you are aware of this and I hope others find it helpful. When drilling hardend steel, your gonna burn up bits. There is a very easy an effective method. It's called spot annealing. Simply put, take something hard, I use an old pushrod from a car. Put it in the chuck of your drill press, turn the rpms up to the max. Mark the spots where you want your holes. Bring the spinning pushrod, or bad drill bit or whatever you have down onto the spot with pressure. You will see the steel start to turn colors. Once it makes that tell tale purplish ring, the area has been annealed and can be drilled quite easily with the cheapest bits. This will only anneale a very small area.

Good job. Can you show us you filleting fish with the knife? Thank you.

So is heat treatment not needed?

Love it! Very nice video

Tu sais on peu faire des couteaux dans n'importe quoi, mais un vrai couteau est une couteau qui est techniquement controler en tout point sur sa matière et sur son utilisation finale, mais celui que tu fabrique est jolie

My god you were so lucky there ,clamp down .We don't want to lose you .

You should always clamp down anything that is Metal when drilling into it because the Drill bits will always catch in the Metal be safe..

I thought handsaws are soft steel so you can file them?? How is this one hardened?

I'm mad of knife and do still have a sword which was during the British time in India that my grandpa secured it.

Great work! Have you filleted fish with it?

Does it work for a fish

How did u stop that oak and maple from checking?

Hola Frank, watched your vidio,about making a fillet knife from a saw,it turned out to be a doodle knife,but I would like to add a piece of good sound advice,and that is some of your methods are very unsafe,and nd my advice is to think the task out and plan each step out before carrying it out,safety is prime.

That was a nice saw, I would need to look at at it, but I would probably have paid you enough for it to buy a knife.

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The worst saw blade is from high carbon steel, quenched and tempered at 46-52Rc all over and flame or induction hardened in teeth at 52-60Rc. It is not wise to drill with common drill bits, these type of material.

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Yes you got it sharp but what you used hurts my soul 😭

Man you clamped the ply wood and not the blade

Not clamping the knife was one safety fail. No safety glasses when using chain saw or other power tools. Sounded like kids, but someone's hands on the band saw platten while you were cutting? Probably a few other things that sharp eyes will see. When you do a how too video and post it on the internet, you should emphasize safety and demonstrate good habits. Nice first knife.

Do you really think the stock a handsaw Is thick enough for a filet knife...I don't think so

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If y have proper tools so y can make any think

Almost cried when that old handsaw got cut up.what a waste.

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Poor example of shop skills. This should be titled “How NOT to make a knife”!!

Always position the thing you want to drill on the left side of you. That way it will run into the drill post and not your hand first!

That handsaw is in better starting condition than the one I just restored.... couldn't you have used a modern junk one!?

Next time put your razor edge on last, safer to work with. Also, slow that drill bit down. Drill metal much slower than wood. Shouldn't need oil that thin too.

im kinda surprised you still have all your fingers

For those who smash dislike button, nothing against you guys, people have different tastes, but if someone dislike it because I did something wrong in the process, please let me know what would you do different. Because I am learning and this was my first knife. So don't be shy and drop a comment! Thanks!

Very good video everything looks very good I also want to make my knife to prepare tacos my question is it has to be forged ??? because I see in other Videos that they heat the material and put oil to forge it in the hand saw n

how to filet yourself with a knife using a drill press? (no clamps are needed) I like that end grain board, thats really neat

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I enjoyed the video but I was surprised when you went through the effort of making a knife by hand to end up using a pull-through carbide sharpener at the end. I know sharpening is a bit of a different skill set than machining and woodwork, but id argue that sharpening is easier because of tool cost.

Where gloves next time lol 2nd might not be good.but a good video think I'll make one I've got a few of them old saws laying around here somewhere again good vid but where gloves

very nice project ....I think one Improvement could have been to leave a little bit of Sawtooth on the back Edge for bones and such

Very cool. I love seeing people invest their time and creativity into a handmade tool :) Great job :)

Please use leather glove

i have burnt, broke quite a few bits.

Very nice job! I was thinking as you were initially drilling it in the drill press: I hope the bit doest catch and swing the blade around. And then it did! Haha, glad it wasn't a bad cut!

why not reuse the saw handle wood? that would have been cool 100 percent recycled

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Dude that's the first time I have seen a plasma drill bit, the best move for that bit is for you to stick it into a forge, and forge it into a KNIFE! Then you'll be a creator instead of a maker.

Good show Always wear safety equipment

done that lots of times. Your lucky to have a finger.

I like the fact you took something you were not using and made something you could,blade has the flex to fillet fish and if its sharp enough will be fine. I would have used smaller pieces of brass tube to hold it together and made a sheath out of a old belt ??

Great video and good build. I was planing on making my own filet knife from an old sawzall blade and watching your video has inspired me to quit putting it off and make it happen. Thanks and keep up the good work.

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This was a good build, right up until you put that carbon blade sharpener on it.

You didn't heat treat. That seems to be the hard part. I have a homemade knife that's incomplete because every time i heat treat it i find that atleast a tiny lot bit of the blade edge didn't harden.

Thanks for the video. Wasn't sure if you beveled both sides, the speed was hard to follow, but not boring. The reason I inquire is that fillet knives are beveled on one side only.

I was advised by an old time served engineer to use cold water when drilling spring steel. i used to build double axle trailers and used cut down leaf springs for the suspension. Drilling the centre bolt was tricky until told about the cold water coolant!

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Nice simple way to get r dun. Like that you added the self fileting, shows you have a sense of humor, thanx.

I want to see some more vedios

There is a lot of trust given to the man with the hammer...

I guarantee that knife won't hold an edge worth shit after the amount of heat that went into the steel while cutting with the grinder and not cooling it not to mention the tip got red hot during the edge grind

that incident with the drill press could have gone really bad

I was wonder if you can make a good fillet knife from a hand saw. Thank you for the video.

Great man , Having the right tools and 60% of the job is done , just great man .

Very nice knife. What did you put on the handle for the finish? Wich product? Thank you

Lovely. I watch a lot of 'restore' vids on YT though, and was thinking that the old saw still had life in her, with some TLC. A good fillet knife is wonderful though. Nice job. I'd be very happy to take that fishing/camping.

Great idea! I will be looking for old saws at yard sales. Could you use the old saw's handle for the knife handle?

Very nice.... you have the shop and the quipment also.... Cheers

you can soft the handle part by putting the blade part in water and torching the holes areas, so drilling is way more easy and less dangerous

That was a nice old saw you ruined there. They don't make 'em like they used to, and real Disston saws have not been made since 1955. Sure they had a special run in 1994 but I've got one and it doesn't even come close to my 1955 Disston let alone my 1940's or earlier Disstons. It's one thing to use a damaged saw blade, but this was still perfectly good. I recently made some Tater knives from an old saw blade but it had no handle and multiple broken teeth, it would've taken too much to get back into service as a saw unlike this one.

Nice looking knife but the drilling would go much better if you first temper the part you will be drilling

To much Work if you do not have the tools & shop like you do there, I can buy a Great Filet knife for under $30.00 bucks, That would serve my needs etc. thanks for sharing any way interesting project etc.

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This video should be called how too destroy tools and do dangerous shit

a very well made filleting knife,and you have lot's of material left from that saw to make many more,gets my thumbs up without a doubt

From looks of your drilling attempt and grinding, I'm guessing your using stainless steel. When drilling stainless slow the drill down all the way and use a lot of thick oil.

Very nice build. I like how you recycled that saw and made it into a knife. Really cool.

carbon steel blades are far better than stainless well done pal be making one myself

Thanks for the vid. I made a beautiful fillet knife out of an old hand saw blade a couple of years ago. I could not get the blade to harden enough to hold an edge. It looks great, but is worthless for filleting fish. I'm sure the steel just didn't contain enough carbon.

Is a modern handsaw hardend and tempert the whole blade

If i have all those kind of machines i can make it easily. Without proper machine i made it