Knife porn thread

Ohhh is that a plastic handled one?

It’s a ‘bushwacker blue’ stainless steel no. 8. Has a lanyard hole.
The local shop had the plastic handle outdoors model, but it had a half serrated blade which I didn’t want.

I got my dad the ‘electricians’ model a few years ago with the plastic handle. The blade is excellent, slightly thicker than normal so super ridgid. The drop point is also quite nice, the ¼ inch hex bits are pointless as the ergonomics just don’t work, so he filled in the slots with sugru. Gonna have to get myself one sometime soon.

I’ve found that the Victorinox cybertool is excellent for tech tasks.
Has a useful hex tool with bits, scissors etc. Bit too big to pocket carry, but great for the work backpack.

I (stupidly) used my new Penknife blade to try to remove very small screws from an HR monitor when on holiday last week, and broke the tip off, which is really annoying.

Where can I get the blade reground?

Also, I have a standard hunting knife type thing (that I use for shaving kindling for the fire), could this be dropped into the same place that would do the penknife (I assume yes)?

@mashton perhaps?

@mashton would you accept some lucre in exchange for sorting out my knives?

If you post them to me I'll do them. I hope the damaged one isn't the Bob Lessard one.

To my shame I am afraid it is.

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I'll fix that easily

Nice to see it being used too. It was a whittler once.

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Yeah, I can't regrind, just sharpen.

I ordered an £8.50 lanksy kit copy off of the internet. Will see how good it is when it arrives.

Found a knife my old man picked up in the late 60s, and an old pocket knife

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Nice Puma.

Looks like the ancestor to this

https://www.pumaknives.de/en/hunting-knives/fixed-blade-knives/50/puma-automesser

After giving it a quick wipe, it's a White Hunter model .

The old man picked it up when he was defending the Western world from the Soviets up in Northern Norway.

Seriously nice piece of kit

https://www.heinnie.com/puma-white-hunter

Snow Camo I assume so White Hunter makes sense.

Wow! That is knife porn.
My uncle has exactly that knife, and used it to teach me how cut and sharpen and stuff when I was really young. The first knife I ever remember handling. It was so sharp it actually scared me.
I bought a similar Puma New Hunter, which works just the same, but just doesn't cut it (!) for me like the original.
Dibs if you sell!

I just made a kitchen knife out of an old saw and some oak floor board off cuts

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cool, can you give steps on making handle want to replace a shitty plastic one with some found wood but not sure on where to start

In the past I've made mocks out of foam to get a shape that feels right and used that to trace.

The knife is full tang, so it just has two bits of roughly the right size bits of wood glued to it.

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Once the glue (ordinary araldite) has set I just filed it to shape, first with a rasp, then a file, then with increasingly fine abrasive paper, 60 grit to 180 grit.

And wrap the blade in gaffer tape so you can hold it while working the handle, it was already pretty sharp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owseTngZFMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeNR0guNn70