Here is a great How to site on knife making, Try making the single bevel, its easy then let your creativity and new skills flow.
Also has a very helpful video.
Have fun!
http://www.greenpete.co.uk/?page_id=28
His process is bloody easy and works, giving the blade an excellent temper. I made two and they stay sharp very well. Then a few licks of the steel and back to razor

Saved that site thanks Andrew GBB

Thanks for that, came just in time for my holidays. So far its dead easy and now just have to make the bevel and a handle for it.

I saw this guy at a show about a month ago. He makes all sorts of things - axes, furnature, carvings etc.
Only had a few knives on show but they caught my eye. He talked to me about them for a good ten minutes and I almost bought one - the best quality knives I've ever come across. The £200 price tag put me off though.
I can vouch for the blade quality if this is the process he uses.

More than likely was Ray Mears.
And treehorse is from Surrey, England

Greenpete, you the chap from that video?  Good stuff... even tho I havent made one, I learnt a lot from the vid.

i've made two since reading this

a pig sticker, and a general deer knife

the sticker is a great way to start cause mistakes aren't so important and its essentially a stabbing device rather than cutting

the second one came up a treat, and is in the handle process

cheers for the thread

Rightyo Cleakmeister

heres the smaller knife i made, half polished and starting to think about handle. Have had a test sharpen and its sweet. I just went to the local second hand tool shed and bought about 10 old files for $20. The rest was bench grinder, angle grinder, and a sharpening stone.

did the heat up and cool slowly thing and it was pretty easy to work with after that. the hardening and tempering seemed to be no big deal either

regardless of what you c*nts think anyway, i reckon the crims in D block would think it bloody handy!

bit rough i know and needs some finishing, but amazing how much i learnt ( already planning the next one - anyone got an old 6foot file )

Nice work 300wm ... looking gooooood. 

Heres my knife ive been working on for the last few weeks which I made from an old rusted file so after a bit of work with the angle grinder I got the right shape and now have  the bevel sorted.
Anyone have any ideas how I can harden the knife without too much trouble?

Now all I have too do is make the handle.

Kickstart wrote on Nov 12^th, 2008 at 10:11pm:

Up to glowing red then cool as quick as you can, the tempering process is in the site.

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im interested in some steel, let me know

Pm me, I can get you alot of breastbench saw steel, what brian baker of svord apparently used to start up. I also along with a workmate are doing custom pattern welded steel (damascus) suited to knifemakers

Aunty wrote on Dec 1^st, 2008 at 2:11pm:


Keeps me alive, you could say. That and my arthritis meds

I've been reading this and I'm keen to give it a go.
I'm fairly hand when it comes to making thing's so makeing a knife for me wont be too hard.
I unfortunately don't have allot of experience butchering animals. (Fish don't count)

So do you guys have any advice on blade design?
Is his template suitable for NZ Game?
Is it worth having a gut hook on the back of the blade?

just a suggestion.have a look round;any demolition yards in your locality;always good source of recycled housing timber ;mostly native, alternatively keep an eye out for local building demolitions .
  on this subject 'wonder how manuka would go as handle??tube

Ive got nice wood if people want it?

Didn't say "a nice" but was waiting for it. All good.