Just mentioned that to my grandad and he said “piffle - we were making knives in metal shop in HS out of files”
Nice...there’s a dude in Japan I think with lots of videos making kitchen knives out of like folded aluminum foil and whatnot. Really interesting.
Sewing is trivial compared to what that guy did.
I’d love to have some tiny but functional knives like that one.
Daddy told me that during WWII, actually just after the war, he was part of the Army of Occupation.
He saw a tiny pistol which he said fired cartridges about the size of a match head. It was an automatic and actually worked.
WOW! Thanks very much.
Nice work
Bkmrk.
When I was about 7, I wanted a pocket knife, but my parents said no. I went into my Grandpa’s wood shop and hunted around for something steel. I found an 8 inch steel gutter spike and went at it with an anvil and a hammer, until I’d made it flat enough on the pointed end for a blade. I then used some emery cloth to give it an edge. After that I took the crude knife and whittled a wooden handle and stuck it on with rosin Grandpa had in his shop. Once the glue was hardened, I beat on it some more and then sharpened it again with emery cloth. I had to wrap the handle with string and varnish, because it kept coming apart.
That was my first knife. No, it didn’t look like the one in the video, it was functional, not pretty.
The following year I joined the Cub Scouts and finally got a Boy Scout folding pocket knife.
Bobby Duke is hilarious but more seriously, a very talented craftsman. Enjoy watching some of his builds, especially his ‘But you can do this’ build vid.
Probably learned from a master—someone from prison who makes custom made shanks.