Hello to all lovers homemade. Style steampunk appeared not so long ago, to be precise, in the early 1980s. To date, this direction is developing rapidly and has a wide variety and branches in directions, both in the field of application and in the materials needed in the manufacture. In this article I will tell how the author made a knife do it yourself in steampunk style.
Before you begin the manufacturing process, you need to determine the necessary materials and tools.
In order to make a steampunk knife, we need:
* Wooden plank.
* Asterisk from a speed bike.
* Canvas from a hacksaw.
* Bulgarian.
* Copper hollow tubes.
* Copper rod and wire.
* Little stars from the watch.
* Grinding wheel.
That's all the necessary materials with tools are ready, now you can start assembling.
Step one.
The first thing to do is to cut out the desired shape from the hacksaw blade, which will be the cutting part of the knife, we do this with a grinder, observing all safety precautions, not forgetting to wear safety glasses.
To give this billet greater strength and hardening, we heat it with a gas burner, then leave it for a while to cool, since we will need it in the next step.
Step Two
With a margin of size, it is necessary to cut the future handle of the knife from the plank, it will be most convenient to do this with an electric jigsaw.
The handle will be a composite of two parts, therefore, you need two such planks on one and the other side.
Step Three
In order to install the handle on a future knife, you need to drill 3 holes in the wooden blanks of the handle, as well as in the canvas itself, for drilling in the blade we install a metal drill.
Step Four
Fasteners will be carried out by means of rivets, which will serve as copper tubes, the thickness of which is 6 mm, and the diameter of the section is equal to the drilled holes. Next, we divide these tubes into pieces of 15 mm in length, from which we make inserts.
With an emery cloth, we clean off the excess and form a convenient and beautiful shape for the handle; for the speed of the process, you can use the grinding wheel.
Step Five
It's time to give charm and the style that was originally conceived. To do this, we will use a grinder and saw off the necessary part from an asterisk borrowed from a high-speed bicycle.
Next, we weld it to the upper part of the sheet and remove excess and traces of welding.
After that, we put a rod of thick copper wire in two and thread it into a knife, passing it along the entire length of the handle, then we thinly wrap the wire round the rod with a wire.
In conclusion, it is necessary to polish the handle of the knife and its blade, and then decorate the handle with a variety of gears, which can be removed from old watches or mechanical alarms by placing washers under threaded connections. We decorate an asterisk with rings made of copper wire.
On this homemade steampunk knife is ready.
Thank you all for your attention.