Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
Over the last year I have been preparing to jump into making knives as a hobby. Slowly I have been transitioning my garage into a place to make knives. Just a few more preparations and tools I need to acquire so that I can begin this endeavour. But it's getting close. I have some blanks roughed out awaiting to be finished up. This is something I have been wanting to do for some years now, but just never had the time to give it the commitment it needed. Always seemed like there were hundreds of other things that were more pressing and taking of my time.
Right now I want to focus on the stock removal method for making blades. I have in the plans for a forge for heat-treating blades, but I would like to venture into doing some by forging as well. I also will concentrate on fixed blades simple because they are much simpler. The knives I want to make will be utility and outdoorsman types that will be something that is designed to be used. My goal is simple elegance.
An interesting story to this. My great grandfather, was a blacksmith, farmer and ran a sawmill here in East Texas. His first blacksmith's shop was built right here on the property where I live, in 1918, not a couple of hundred yards from where my house is. He died the year I was born, so I never got a chance to know him. But I suspect he was much like my grandfather and my father!
More to follow later! Cheers.
Right now I want to focus on the stock removal method for making blades. I have in the plans for a forge for heat-treating blades, but I would like to venture into doing some by forging as well. I also will concentrate on fixed blades simple because they are much simpler. The knives I want to make will be utility and outdoorsman types that will be something that is designed to be used. My goal is simple elegance.
An interesting story to this. My great grandfather, was a blacksmith, farmer and ran a sawmill here in East Texas. His first blacksmith's shop was built right here on the property where I live, in 1918, not a couple of hundred yards from where my house is. He died the year I was born, so I never got a chance to know him. But I suspect he was much like my grandfather and my father!
More to follow later! Cheers.