Knife Making, Material Reduction Knife Start to Finish Part 3

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okay well today is the day that I get the most excited about today we get to finish our knife and the glue is all drawn out I left it overnight 24 hours a little bit longer than actually to glue up because I was busy yesterday and I've taken just a piece of cardboard folding it over and gorilla taped it and use that for a temporary sheath because remember we have a wire edge on this knife now and we're going to be manipulating it around the grinder so to keep it from cutting us we're going to make sure that we're protected by this blade guard now we can start to shape this handle on the sanding belt let's get started

so here's the process you want take your time with no hurry okay so as I'm getting this evened up now to the metal I'm also coming into the front side here just kind of the blade giving myself a thumb ramp if you will

and at all get dressed up little by little as we go I'm just going to bring it down to a semi even point first and now we're just coming in we're kind of roll with this handle on the belts nifty what we're going to start to chafe our handles we could go to a more aggressive belt this one's getting worn down and a lot to save worn belt to use for stuff like this we put a very aggressive bulk on here kicking off a lot of wood really fast and if we make a mistake it might be hard to correct at this point the stakes are too hard to just stand down into a fit so just roll it around the belt gentle pressure on the slack rod right now is what I'm doing just to get the back of the handle taking the way I want it you're going to end up hand sanding this no matter what you do you get it final before you orally

so right now you're trying to get your basic stick moving in it all right so now I'm kind of subdued some more fine gaming here and I'm getting that drop down right by the blade there goes right to the edge of the blade and if you taking my time on the edge of the belt here kind of rolling that knife you get that transmission from handle the blade just the way I wanted you notice I haven't changed belt the more this thing wears out the leftist heroes taking off but that's better for me I'll put a finer belts on here when I get closer to a finished handle and then I'll go down to hand standing from there I'm constantly looking at what I got seeing what's that Fitness is right there at the boys because I want them to be even on both sides now go back to my transition again so I'm not quite thin enough there yet I was going to take a break from an area when you're working on it come back to it look at it again come back to it until you're happy with it okay now we're going to take off this heavier belt we're going to go down to what's called a belt it's a lighter grip belt but it's also more flexible belt so that we can get around those areas and I'm going to use again I'm going to use one that's been used I'm not going to use one it's brand new don't want to eat a bunch of material off I just want to do some fine shavings but this belt will actually run right along real easy just like this and follow the contours of that handle really well we kind of finalize my shipping process it gives me a finer finish so

we're real close to exactly what I'm looking for now in my handle and now we're going to go out this thing with some sandpaper before we start working on the blade again again our blades been protected the whole time so we're in good shape there we got some nice clean lines on this handle once we final sand it it's going to fit perfect in our hand alright so we're just going to take a cheap sanding block and now we're going to go out to the blade to stop just to smooth everything or go out to the handle I should say with that just to get everything smoothed out the way we wanted and this is a medium grit block we shouldn't have a whole lot of work to do here if we get our job right on the stand-up sander there and reduce down to a lighter belt and took lighter strokes on it during the final shaping process we shouldn't really have too much to do here to get a nice smooth handle alright so we've got our handle now to the point where it's nice and smooth and it's ready really to be finished oiled but before we do that we're going to work on the blade because we can always put the blade back in this temporary sheath to final oil our handle is going to need a couple coats of whatever oil we decide to use so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to finish the blade of this knife now I've got three different buffing wheels here I have a large wheel on this Grizzly grinder and then I have two smaller wheels here on just a Harbor Freight grinder you don't have to have real expensive tools for some of this stuff you just got to have a variety so I'm going to use black compound with black compound there are going to use white compound on this wheel these are all playmate remove materials because they are raised and the vegies agreed over the last week so our three different one tighter than the next to finish this place

keep this bleh this driver sitting this way got a rotation arrow right here you want to keep this blade away from you for sure and keep it underneath the wheel they'll get on top and don't go too far underneath just stay right here underneath the wheel at a slight upward angle on the blade next once you remove that wire edge and remove anything else you've got on the boy there's a little bit of adhesive or something on the blade right there this is drawing that right off if you keep your hands underneath here and wasting that cutting foot keep a good firm hold with the other hand apply a little bit of pressure upward but one side and then Buffy other three Buffy of atop the real here now if you got some areas on this play that he's got to heat them on here you can always come up in here and polish that off now that's part of process is no different than the rest flow process taking your time the buff that lay down they won't get there start to get off on that boy remember that you're actually removing material with this buffing process now I really can't tell you how long you need to spend on this process because it's something that you're going to develop a feel for over time but you're starting to get any major grinding scratches out of the blades this point you're not trying to get down to a mere polish necessarily but you are trying to get the major drawing box out of it and get rid of that wire ready you should be able to feel that that blade is very sharp for sure okay we're going to move over to this other grinder this thing moves a lot faster with a lot more rpm so now we've really got to be Cox that where this blade is old to be very careful farming's back away from thing again pink breaks as we go to our final grinding wheel here and it doesn't mean it you can't go back so don't think that just because I'm down here doesn't mean I can't go back here because I bounce back and forth sometimes if I don't get everything I want when I finish this wheel I'll go right back to this one I very rarely go all the way back to the beginning but I'll go back to this one quite often same thing trying to stay nice and light you're gonna get some compound build-up on

especially if you use foot brush compound on don't worry about that she bumped us down and come out now you really have to be careful with these thin wheels because they'll catch your blade yanking bastard the yummy cartoons I was wrong okay let's clean her up and when I sharp that blade is that's how sharp it is shaving sharp okay so this is our blade in its completed state and it's got a little bit of compound build-up right on the edge line of the grind there right in the ricasso but when you all this blade down that will all wipe off so now we're ready to oil finish our handle we're going to just put it back in the sheet for that this temporary sheath we've got we'll just stick it back in that for now so we don't cut ourselves while working on the handle and with a sticking and a vise and then we can rub this handle down really good with some oil now you can use lots of different types of oil on this handle what I'm going to use is just pure linseed oil the one thing you've got to remember with linseed oil is that linseed oil can't spontaneously combust as it's drying because it creates heat so you've got to take the rags that you're going to use for this process and don't store them in a wad somewhere in your barn lots of barns have burned down because of that I usually store mine in a bucket of water after the fact so we'll get this handle wiped down really good with linseed oil and we'll probably use at least two coats on this and maybe three so we'll let one coat soak in really well and then we'll come in and put another coat on it here in just a few minutes we want to pull it out the sheath just a little bit to make sure that we get down in the cracks and crevices of this thing really good get those front edges really really well guys we've got two coats of boiled linseed oil on our handle now and our knife is complete I'll try to get some pictures up closer the knife for you and get them on this video at the beginning as well I hope you enjoyed this quick series on making the tool reduction knife from start to finish I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school when I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for our family and for business follow our sponsor instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys