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Heya, I just finished up my first knife finally! (Been forced away from my tools for a year). First, the design. I'm a cook, and on the left bicep of my chef coats there is a small pocket. Most people keep pens and such in it. I keep a crappy lil paring knife. It gets used more for utility...

So I bought from Aldo 1/4 thick 4 foot long chunk o steel, 1084. I really screwed up in my head and waaaay overestimated how thick that is. What can I do to make it thinner? Any way but grinding? I don't know anything about forging, but is it suitable to smash thinner? ...learning curve...

While working on my first knife from a copied pattern, I decided to play around with starting to design my own knife. My drawing skills are horrible, so I want to use google sketchup to make it nice and neat (and to easily make lots of good copies). Anyone know of any tutorials for designing...

I'm trying my hand at my first knife, a slippie. I'm using the swayback jack kit knife as a pattern and making it out of 01 (since I have no way to HT ATS-34). Anyway, does it *need* a spacer between the two springs? If so, does it have to be brass or ss? I'm putting jade ghost green scales on...

Hi, you can call me Precise. I'm from West Virginia. I've been collecting slipjoints for a bit, and have recently gotten the urge to try and make one myself. That's how I ended up here. Bought some supplies from the website and am catching up all the massive amount of information out there...