You might be a redneck knife maker if ...

 

Your best knives are made from Rail Road spikes.

Your kids know the difference between 15N20 and 1075.

You made a knife left handed by mistake.

 

Any others?

Edited April 9, 201511 yr by Glenn

You can and do shave with your soup spoons.

Your kids have knife throwing contests for beers in the den.

You carve the Thanksgiving turkey with a lawnmower blade machete.

Frosty The Lucky.

Edited April 9, 201511 yr by Frosty

Your copper hilts and guards are made from bits of Pappy's still that the durn Revenuers blew up.

All of your home built shop equipment was made from parts off of old cars and appliances........in your front yard.

Your kids have knife throwing contests for beers in the den.

Frosty The Lucky.

​My son and I have knife throwing contests, But he is too young to drink beer still..... 

He is 6, and is getting rather good, seen him hit and sink the target 3 times in a row from about 8 feet. 

​My son and I have knife throwing contests, But he is too young to drink beer still..... 

He is 6, and is getting rather good, seen him hit and sink the target 3 times in a row from about 8 feet. 

​So throw for rootbeers. Pretty good throwing, just wait a couple years make him an atlatl and he can keep the freezer full.

Frosty The Lucky.

Edited April 9, 201511 yr by Frosty

Not only are all your power tools and equipment made from auto and appliance parts, your shop foundation is car frames still on the cinder blocks, the walls and roof are car hoods and trunk lids. Car doors have built in windows so you just have to talk the wife out of the new addition so the shop can have an openable window.

Frosty The Lucky..

You might be a redneck knife maker if...

You make your mokume gane fittings from quarters. 

Tongs? You mean channel locks? 

Your favorite stand up comedy to watch on TV is the Cutlery Corner Shopping Network. *GENUINE CARBON STEEL, HAND FORGED LOLOLOLOL*

It's a frequent line for your wife to say "Honey, your knives are stinkin' up my oven again!"

You reuse all of your old NASCAR shirts to make micarta. 

 

You quench your knives in used deep fryer oil....

Then temper them in the kitchen oven...

And your family comes into the kitchen wondering who's burning the fries!

Wife does not wonder if she finds the kitchen oven pre heating to 450F and there is no food in sight, while you are working in the shop

She is also trained to look in the kitchen oven BEFORE she turns it on to preheat for cooking, to make sure all the knives have already been removed.

 

 

Y'all stop pickin' on me.

Heck, ya ain't even mentioned the typical one for ovens...if ya normally have to move ammo out of the oven to temper knives.

You have a good woman there, Steve!

when you can time the deer roast and blade to be done at the same time.

When you have to put your forge back on the rear wheel of the family car so the wife can drive to town for groceries.

(Stolen from another list I saw one day...)

These. All of these!

 

The Sheriff can't chase you down because the springs are missing from his cruiser. AGAIN!

Frosty The Lucky.

The Sheriff can't chase you down because the springs are missing from his cruiser. AGAIN!

Frosty The Lucky.

  Are you sure that's not a Ghetto Knifemaker?.

  Are you sure that's not a Ghetto Knifemaker?.

​Naw, they take the whole cruiser and sell or swap it for blades in the ghetto.

Frosty The Lucky.

Gut hooks on a blade are NOT optional.....

I enjoyed these. I am not sure if I should be ashamed or proud that 90% relate to me!

Your setup looks good! And it looks like you aren't going to waste time with dinky coal shovels !

....you have to stop hammerin' cause the trailers fell off the blocks again.

...local sherrifs have to pay you a visit when scrap thefts are reported.

...the bed of your pickup has coal, scrap and other unknown articles.

....you don't know if the floor of your shop is concrete or dirt as it hasn't been seen in years.

...neighbors think that yellow green smoke means your cooking meth.

I could do this all night

You broke in your daily carry pocketknife sticking and slaughtering a pig (yes).

Or stopped forging because you had to clean a rabbit (yup, that too.)

You've ever had coal or scrap in the back of the truck and your wife put hay/dead chickens/pig slop in with it (also true).

You've scrounged used baling wire or from an electric fence to hold a billet together.

The guy that works the fryer at the farm auction at night, and lost his arm in a septic tank accident calls you whenever there's an anvil or good scrap up for bid. (and a heck of a nice guy too, he owned the septic business.)

You've ever fixed a car part on the anvil...

If you've ever bartered blacksmithing equipment for livestock. (let's face it, I've done all of these)

Your go to excuse to the wife for not buying something is "I can make that."

 

Your go to excuse to the wife for not buying something is "I can make that."

I've done that a couple times lol. The most recent time wast last Sunday when I saw a crosspien (might've been 20oz) and a couple other small hammers at the flea market.

Welcome aboard Sparky, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the IFI gang live within visiting distance.

 

You might be a red neck knife maker if. . . Your entire blade smithing set up cost under $75 to scrounge and get working. You keep it locked in the garage and park your $60,000 pickup truck on the street.

Frosty The Lucky.

If you've ever done a heat treatment technique that involved the words "Hey, y'all check this out!" and "Here, hold my beer."