Greetings to all lovers of tinkering and doing something from nothing do it yourself.
One acquaintance, a treasure hunter, brought in a rusty piece of iron that he had raised in our workshop.
He assures that this is a knife from the time of Kievan Rus. He brought this piece of iron with a request to make something out of it. The answer is that this can be done either with an awl or a toothpick didn’t work for him, you just need a knife.
It occurred to me to make some kind of knife, preserving the appearance of the find as much as possible.
Tools needed.
1. Welding inverter
2. Angle grinder
3. Grinder
4. Sharpening machine
5. Electric drill
6. Hacksaw
7. Vise
8. The hammer
9. Scissors
10. Round file
11. Drill
12. Felt circle
13. The expansion bolt shield for the mounting gun
14. Drills.
Materials required.
1. Old wood hacksaw
2. Copper sheet
3. Copper wire
4. Textolite
5. Horn
6. Epoxy
7. Sandpaper
8. Pasta GOI.
They drew the approximate shape of the blade on paper, glued it to the canvas of an old hacksaw on a tree and cut it out with a grinder.
The workpiece must be constantly moistened with water, avoiding overheating.
Aligned all the bumps remaining after the grinder on the grinding machine, not forgetting to cool the workpiece in water.
The found piece of iron was cleaned of rust with emery paper and a blade was welded to it.
We cleaned the welding seam, first on a grinding machine, then using a drill.
The descents were done on the grinder.
Next, we cleaned the blade with sandpaper.
Unfortunately, it did not work to drill holes.
I had to punch with a dowel for the mounting gun, striking several times on each side in the place where the hole is needed.
The holes were leveled and adjusted to the required size with the help of a round file clamped in a drill.
Two strips of approximately 1 cm wide were cut from a piece of sheet copper. These will be decorative clamps that will hide the welding spots.
Drilled holes in sections on one side.
The clamp was fixed on the blade with copper wire, circled and drilled a second hole.
Before installing the clamps, the blade was polished on a felt circle using GOI paste.
Clamps mounted on rivets made of copper wire.
Now proceed to the manufacture of the handle.
In the workshop was found the remainder of the horn, almost perfectly matching the shape of a blade. Sawed off the right size with a hacksaw for metal.
To close the end of the horn and make some kind of bolster they used textolite.
In the horn and textolite, they drilled a hole for the shank of the blade and roughly adjusted the parts to each other.
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A blank hole was drilled in the PCB and a screw of a self-tapping screw was screwed into it. This will give greater strength and prevent the bolster from spinning.
We mark and drill the second hole in the handle.
We check the fit and glue all the parts together on epoxy.
After hardening of the resin, the handle on the grinding machine was modified. The smell is certainly not pleasant.
As a result, we got such a product.
Of course, you won’t go to melee with him, but you can cut the sausage.
All good and success in work !!!
You can watch a video on making a knife here.