Make a Knife with Simple Tools! 

When the legend post a video... I watch it... I like it... 🙌

It's so cool that you still make basic tutorials after all this time. I built my first knife with your videos as guide 4 years ago. Thanks for your work!

That's alot of fileing. But I never knew I could make knives without power tools. And I am going to make knives as soon as I get out of the recovery house I'm in. I'm stoked right now thank you so much

walter sorrells = knife wizard good job.

Just bought my old sprunger drill press and got a nice big shop table for my drill and vice and to work on ! Excited to show Walter what I can do with his blank I got from him

It doesn't get much simpler than that. Another great tutorial video for beginners and people who don't have access to expensive power tools and grinders. I see and here alot of people complicating to process but its really quite simple. Its just basically getting off you backside and giving it go.

Really enjoyed this Walter, thank you so much.

Best description ever! Slope-y cutty part of the knife

Funny this video comes across my feed now... I am in the process of re-handling an old "hacking knife" that the original plastic handle broke about 10 years ago with some black walnut. I had to anneal the tang portion so I could drill two new holes for pins, and so I could contour the metal. I used my Dremel with cut-off disc to rough out the contours in basically the same way you did with the hacksaw. I did remember to profile the front end of the scales before mounting to the blade (haven't got to that point yet, still have to clean up the tang profile tomorrow). Good fun, and this shows just how much CAN be done with simple hand tools easily, if labour-intensively! Thank you for posting these hand tool videos, Walter!

nice. thank you for keeping it simple for us, who don't have the big machines.

Mr. Sorrells, thank you again for another great build.

Thank you Walter. That was very cool

Loved this one this is how i do my knives got alot op power tools but love doing it by hand

You are a wealth of information,thank you for taking the to teach Walter...

The master! Did it again! Sweet!

Another awesome and helpful video Walter, thank you!

Loved this step back to the "knife with simple tools" videos of yours that got me into knifemaking in the first place :)

Awesome as always. Thank you.

I love your basic tools videos, I made my first knives thanks to these!

Nice knife. Nimble and useful for EDC, camping, backpacking, travel kit, etc. Thanks

thanks for taking the time and effort for putting this out there Walter. Nearly all makers that teach knife making say to make at least one knife with only hand tools. So I just went through this myself making a friction folder with only hand tools, though I did use a drill press for the pivot hole. I now have a much greater appreciation for my tools.... even the crappy ones.

Thanks for your vids Walter, they help alot.

You and Wayne Goddard have been the most influential to me because of the simplicity of tools. I know I must have built my first 20 to 30 by hand . I read where Deiter Anschutz had to be able to file a machinist cube and sweep the floor before his father would let him go to college to run the company. Both very important skills in firearms factory. We should all be taught in the same fashion. Great video as always Walter.

I love your sense of humour dude.

One of your best videos

Always awesome information and content.

Very informative! Thank you for posting this!

Very good video. Thank you, Sensei

I love these videos!

Great video Walter. I have a Nicholson magic cut file I use at work you can remove a lot of material quickly. Very inspired by your videos.

Thanks It is good to know we can do this with hand tools

Love this channel, it gives hope to new knifemakers who don't have the tools haha. Can you do another on using an angle grinder?

I will be using my cheap fire pit (homemade from an old propane tank) with charcoal for heat treating! Thanks again!

Hey Mr. Sorrels, if you happen to see this, could you please make a video on hand forging knives and any tips you have on preventing twisting as you forge the bevels? I've been getting into it and I've made some pretty cool knives but my biggest battle is keeping the blade straight and centered when I forge the bevels and I can't seem to totally figure it out. Thanks for all the great content.

you have a narrators voice. should be in the movies. dukes of hazard, christmas story etc nice knives

Excellent video. A fantastic tutorial. Thank you for your contribution. Do you have the design of this knife? Can you make available to exercise the learning by reproducing a similar piece? Thanks

Very nice, and all with hand tools. The only tool I would add would be a cheap 4" angle grinder. Normally, I only buy really good tools, but the cheap grinders available today are plenty good for amateurs' workshop, and will last through hundreds of knife projects. I love filing for about 30 minutes... then the love declines, and the arthritis ensues.

Everything is a joy to do, until you need to file the bevels, that's when you go to HF, buy a 20 dollar angle grinder and some flap disks and blast almost through the line and finish with a file or your hands are going to burn for 2 days.

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Can I use an emery board or fine grit sandpaper to sharpen my knife if im in a pinch

Made a bevil jig to file, still took a looooooooong time.

Do you teach knife making in person? If so where can I sign up for classes?

Is there anything you can do with those 01 scraps that were cut off of the blank? I know they're probably not worth the time for your work but is there anything you would recommend to get the most band for your buck?

me : still filling? walter : yes!

Great video!! "Warm peanut oil", how warm?

Will motor Oil work?

I like that blade, sorta looks like a fixed blade version of a spyderco paramilitary, although the sorta droopy angle of the blade to the hild makes it look like it is slightly depressed, who knows, maybe it's just sad about the covid shutdowns.

Nice video!! I just started in on this amazing craft, and I gotta tell you, trying to do all this by hand as a newbie is virtually impossible. Can you do it? Yep. Obviously. Truly, though, spend the $30 on an angle grinder and learn to use that. If you make more than one knife, you really need one. That and a drill is all you need. If you want to get fancy, get a Dremel tool as well. If I decide to stick to this, my next purchase will be a belt sander.

Hi Walter. If I wanted to make training knives (for self-defense training)... would you still recommend O1 steel? Or would there be something easier to work with, since these will never have a sharp edge?

An angle grinder is $20 at harbor freight. Ten cutting disks are $8. I know this because that’s what I use.

How does one measure the center line with the scribing tool? I recently acquired one sans instructions and haven't found a good way to accurately measure aside from eyeballing it or some janky approximations with my calipers.

Out of curiosity, Walter, how long did it take you to file both sides, plunge and bevels, before hardening?

Hey, Walter. Serious question... do you ever hear the guitar riff in your sleep? Does it echo through your mind until you have achieved a slightly uncomfortable level of existential dread? Again, serious inquiry. Thanks!!!

So no epoxy with those flared tubes ?

Anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong to make a file SHRIEK as it cuts crossed the metal I'm using? It is one of the most awful sounds and almost ruins my filing experience. Thanks

Why not heat it up and hot rasp it? Much faster than filing

supply's for range time are none existent............ maybe time for a sharp / pokey shop project..... thanks for the inspiration.

Is that garrelite?

Note to self.... Don't go to drink the very spicy broth left over from my bowl of soup just as Walter makes a joke about filing forever. Lol this spicy hot broth went down the 'wrong tube' and made me cough and choke haha for quite a while - it's all your fault, Walter! Lol jk. By the way, don't you just love filing by hand? It's by far the most fun part of knife making - am I right? Haha

I missed the part where he puts an sharp edge on it.

Yes, indeed, hand filing is tedious, but the thing is, for a newbie it is likely to be way more precise than using a 2/72 belt grinder, a tool which takes a lot of time to master and can quickly ruin all the hard work thus far.

Id like to see you making a knife WITHOUT hand tools.

Knife is fnish how to make shiney and smooth

How to finish stainless steel knife after it has be fabricated

Order a half round file from Amazon... LOL

only partially related - I was once critical or bitchy about the idea of a wharncliffe for defense. I think I was in some little dream world of my own. Sorry about that. Obviously, you can work that style in a way or ways that are good for defense. Itty bitty broken back seax, for example. Anyway, that's all. Sorry.

O1 is really crumbly when forging if it gets either too hot or too cold. Not a very forgiving steel for beginners, at least when forging it. Hope this helps someone. W1 is a lot nicer to work.

Next, make a knife with no tools. You can use objects you find in nature.