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Yes, I do plan to get a vise for it. Definitely don’t want to get hurt or break a window.

Haha bet that hurt. Hope I don’t send my knife flying across the garage with it.

I think I work hardened the hole by not using the right type of bit and not enough pressure. I am currently pricing out presses and am going that route. I’d even go for a used one in good condition. The tip with the torch is very good, I’ll definitely keep that in mind for the future.

When put like that, it makes sense lol. I’m also in the market for a used drill press but their either too old or overpriced on market place. I’ll look into those drill bits you linked, thank you for the recommendations.

I’m waiting on my forge to get here as well, like you mentioned in my steel prices thread, I’ll heat treat my waste piece first to test my very noob procedure. But before that, how can I tell if my blade hardened a little during grinding? And if it did, do I have to do anything before HT?

This is my knife so far. Started as a 3/16x2x12 piece of 8670 flat stock. Cut a majority of it with an angle grinder, then spray painted the profile and removed the paper. Cleaned it up the rest of the way with the 1x30. I got the holes drilled out for the pins. Not sure if I got the wrong kind...

I see, so are you putting both the small piece and blade in to heat and quench at the same time?

Basically, the more you buy the cheaper it is by the inch/foot? I didn’t really have a set amount I wanted. Just depended on the price I got. I’d like to get enough in one purchase to last awhile. My biggest dilemma is that I don’t have the knives I want to make planned out, there for I don’t...

Where have you guys found the best prices for steel? I plan to use 1080 for awhile so that’s steel price I’m most concerned with. Any help would be appreciated!

I plan to keep this one forever. I honestly can’t wait to look back at this time next year to see how far I’ve come.

Here’s my first knife, finished over the past weekend. I didn’t make the blade, just attached and profiled the bolster and scales. Too many more!

I’ll check him out, currently watching nick wheelers hand sanding videos haha.

Sound advice! I plan to keep that first one forever. Can’t wait to look back at it and laugh at all the rookie mistakes I made lol. But I’m definitely going to keep that in mind going forward, to use a backer I mean. I’m also watching a bunch of videos on hand sanding knives.

Man you guys are giving me great info to research. Thank you!

Yes, fit and finish needs a more detailed eye next time around. But as far as a backer block. I’m having a hard time picturing what you mean. But I agree, if it was cost effective to buy blanks, I’d do it. But for the same amount or cheaper, I can buy 8670 and learn by making a whole knife...

It does in fact make sense. I’ll give this a try.

I agree wholeheartedly about breaking it into parts or segments and work about that individual part before worrying about another. I kept getting the cart ahead of the horse. Also relied on the grinder too much to remove material instead of using hand tools. Especially because I glued everyone...

I’ll definitely look up Nick Wheeler. I did attempt to sand out the scratches but towards the end I was fighting the vise, the knife kept falling out of it or some grit from the last sanding was left behind and it would make a gouge. It was a mess so I decided to leave it and not make it worse...

Thank you John. This was all very helpful and reaffirming. I was pretty sure what my mistakes were but didn’t know if I was missing anything. Though the grinder is nice, I’ll stick to only using that to get the excess handle material close to the handle size and leave the actual profiling to the...

I agree, looking back I wish I would’ve made a better game plan on how I wanted it to look instead of “oh you know what would be cool” then fly into trying to make it look like cool and not sure on how to get there.