In part one of our Kephart Knife project, I outlined the history of the blade, its creator, and began a discussion with knifemaker William Woods on steel selection and the process to make my own custom knife.
Will not only sent me a CAD drawing of a Kephart blank, but has also been kind enough to allow TTAK to post the design for those of you who want to work along with me at home. Save the picture, edit it in the program of your choice- scaling it so the overall length of tang and blade is 9″, and print.
The next step is to cut out the paper template, glue (spray adhesive works well, as do glue sticks) to a 1/8″ thick piece of wood or cardboard, and cut out the rough shape of the blank. I did this on a bandsaw, but you can use a jigsaw, keyhole saw, etc. if you wish. Then using sandpaper or a stationary sander to creep up on the final outline. A hand file works well to shape the finger guard.
Will is supposed to send me a piece of D2 steel to fabricate the blank later this week. Special thanks are again in order to Will for providing us all with a pattern for this project. More posts to come as work progresses.
Screw You SPAMbots…
Thank you for your patience everyone. I try to keep things clean.
HCA
I think that everything typed was actually very logical. But,
think about this, what if you wrote a catchier title?
I am not saying your content isn’t good, but what if you
added a post title that makes people want more?
I mean Project Kephart: Part 2 | The Truth About Knives is kinda vanilla.
You should peek at Yahoo’s home page and see how they create post titles to get viewers to open the links.
You might add a related video or a related pic or two
to get readers interested about everything’ve got
to say. Just my opinion, it would make your website a little bit more interesting.
Effing SPAMbots are talking smack now. I don’t know whether to be amused or annoyed.
Thank you for the write up. Interesting project.