Making knives at home

How to make a knife at home

The idea to make a knife at home came to me after I saw products of Chinese manufacture sold in our stores. Looking at first glance, quite tolerable, with beautifully decorated handles, kitchen knives turned out to be completely unusable. Not only that the materials from which these knives are made were of a very doubtful quality, so the entire set of knives eventually had to be thrown away, since all its components simply broke. Even in the process of exploitation, there were very unpleasant thoughts at the appearance of peeling paint on the knife handles, because all this rubbish could easily get into the food, and its origin was unknown.

Here I decided to try making knives with my own hands. But it's just easy to say, making knives at home is not easy, and materials are needed. At first I used the blade left by the Chinese knife, which had become unusable, since its handle, made of some suspicious plastic, did not get very far, becoming an unpleasant sight, and then fell off. Therefore, the manufacture of knives at home, I started with a knife, which has only a pen from its own production. Having found a suitable piece of beech, I gave it the right shape with a hacksaw and file, treated it properly with a skin (first large, then shallow) until the surface was perfectly smooth. My pen was made of two halves, between which was located the grip part of the blade. Accurately, with the help of a drill, drilled in both halves of the hole for fastening, padded the blade between them and fastened the whole handle with the help of rivets. And that between the halves of the handle there was no gap, on the inner part of it previously made grooves for the thickness and width of the blade to hide it with a pen.

Honestly, such a knife looked very soundly, the only difficulty was to get the material, it is not always easy to find hard woods, although, on the other hand, there is nothing impossible in it. Next, I planned to make a knife completely, including the blade. For this, I bought in the store a piece of stainless steel, half a millimeter thick. Then, not without difficulty, with the help of a drill and a hacksaw for metal, cut out the workpiece of the right size, trying to give the future blade the necessary shape. Honestly, to handle such a file by file - the occupation is very laborious, so I used electric emery. Sharpening the knife was done right there, and also polished it with a special circle. Drilled holes for fixing the handle, well, then everything happened as described above. The exception was only the material of the knife - now I used a plastic blank, its processing was less laborious than that of wood, but the appearance of the finished handle was, unfortunately, no longer as pleasant as a knife with a wooden handle.

Still, natural material is always more valuable than artificial material. In general, the making of knives at home was a very fascinating activity, useful both for the household and for their own development. Having bought a kit from a familiar locksmith for minting markings, I, additionally, was able to apply engraving on the blade of the knife. I do not know how to whom, but I liked to improve, bring the making of knives at home to quality, and did not dream of those products that are sold in hardware stores. In addition, the set of tools needed for such production is not so great, and at first only the most widespread tools can be completely handled.