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panzertank27, the hacksaw blade is made of molybdenum, the thickness of this one is alittle less than an 1/8". It's about an inch wide. I've used some that were over 2" wide. I usually look at tool sales, auctions and flee markets to buy them.

This is a knife I put together in about 3 hours. It's made from a hacksaw blade that I had left over from a larger knife I made a few years ago. I left some of the sawteeth on the backstrap. The maple handle took 15min. to make and pin on. Overall length is 7-1/4" long with a blade length of about 4-1/2" long. I'm going to make a sheath out of some scrap tooling leather I have laying around. I think this will go with my fishing tackle since its light weight and compact. Thanks for looking :)

panzertank27, not a prob, thanks for looking :)

Very nice! that is a great design :D

Very nicely done! Love the design.

Thanks frosty :)

That looks really nice! Can't wait to see the end result!

Those are going to be really nice when their done!

Thats always a handy knife to have! :D

lol exactly! :)

Thanks for the kind words new guy! :)

Very excellent workmanship! I like how everything is made of metal.

Wow! thats gonna be beautiful when your done with that one!

very nice blade design! I love the look of a stag handled knife.

New guy, I started about 6 years ago, a good friend of mine is a blacksmith that used to make knives and swords for medieval shows. He said if I wanted to learn blacksmithing, he would show me so I started to learn. Before I ever did blacksmithing, I always had an interest in how knives were made, which helps when I want to make one.

chadj, I know what you mean about pommels being peened over, I made a leather handle for a navy k-bar that someone thoughtfully replaced with an ugly piece of antler, and that originally was made like that. The bolster works good, I narrowed the tang about 1/4 on each side and squared the corners so the bolster has a good stopping point. I'm not fortunate to have a lathe or mill, so I drilled a series of holes and hand filed the notch for the bolster to slide up the tang. The pommel bothered me for awhile since I don't have a lathe to turn one, so I figured why not use a kitchen cabinet knob? so I went to Lowes and purchaced one of the proper diameter, and I decided to weld a threaded shank onto the tang to attach the pommel. The pommel came threaded, but with too small a hole, so I found a hardened bolt that I was going to weld to the tang so I drilled the hole larger in the door knob and tapped it to the bolt thread. then I just hand threaded the pommel on and used an extra leather washer at the end to add pressure to help hold the pommel on and some loctite. The washers I made using a simple holesaw, I then put the washers on a long bolt and shaped them on the belt sander. If I had a lathe, I could make them nicer. Then I individually cut the tang shape out of each washer and stacked them in order.

Hello everyone, here is a kitchen knife I just finished yesterday for a good friend of mine who is a cook. It is made from an industrial hacksaw blade made of chrome molybdenum. The wood stocks are made from maple, then stained and coated 5 times with a polyurathane finish, which was sanded between coats. The blade length is 9" and the overall length is a little over 13". I've made a decent amount of knives from hacksaw blades, i'll post pics of them later on. Thanks for looking guys! :)

Thanks alot new guy! I took 2 slabs of maple and lightly glued them together. I then traced one of the brass liners with a pencil and cut out the shape on a bandsaw. I then contoured both sides of the wood to equal shape. I had to figure a way to attach the wood to the liners since the only thing holding them on would be the pivoting pin, so I found some brass tack nails laying around so I drilled a series of holes down the back portiong of the liners and the handles and basically riveted the handles on. After the holes were drilled, I then took a small wood chisel and broke the two glued handles apart. The hole above the pivoting pin was supposed to be a place for me to push down on the ballbearing to unlock the blade, however the handles were too thick and the pivoting pin was too close to this hole, however it now serves as a lubrication point instead to keep the blade running smooth. If you guys have any more questions, just let me know! ;)

lol, your right Frosty. Barcrawler, nice to meet you too! :)

Hello everyone, this is a leather washer handled bowie I completed back in February. The blade is made from leaf spring steel; the overall length is 15.5" long with a 9.5" blade. I still need to make a sheath for it.

hello everyone, this is my first try at making a folding knife which I finished this past winter. The blade is forged steel the liners are brass and the handle is made of maple. I made a ballbearing detent to lock the blade in the open and closed positions. The blade length is almost 4 inches long with an overall length with handle at alittle over 8 inches. I appoligize in advance if the pics don't come up right, this is my first try at posting pictures on the internet.