Jakey's weapon blog: osikro 4 železarna ravne metal hardening quenching bluing knife homemade making dagger wood wallnut root plates brass aluminum leather

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Making a small dagger #2

So, here's just a quick update to this small dagger;

So, I drilled all 6 holes through, five-times 3 millimeters and once a 6 millimeter hole, all of them got cut off sharp edges on both sides.

Second thing done is brass pipe, 6x1 millimeters and it's about 16 millimeters long. It's far too long, but I will cut it of at bolting plates on knife. It took me ~5 minutes to make on lathe(PIC) from brass rod, 12 millimeters diameter.

On top of picture is also seen a brass rod, 3 millimeters diameter and lenght of about half a meter; it will be used for bolting plates on knife too. Just cut the sticks (about 10-12 millimeters long), add them to the plates and hammer once or twice, so there will be a nice rounded edge.

Procedure:

~~Drawing the design~~

~~Drawing it onto material~~

~~Cutting it out of material~~

~~Grinding the material to get the exact shape~~

~~Surface grinding~~

~~Marking the holes~~

~~Drilling the holes~~

~~Making the brass pipe~~

Grinding down the cutting edge(4)

Hardening

Quenching

Sanding(to get off scrap)

Drawing the plates to wood

Shaping the wooden plates

Bluing

Attaching plates to knife(bolting)

Sanding wooden plates down

Varnishing wooden plates

Monday, May 28, 2012

Making a small dagger #1

This is just a procedure, how I'm making a very small dagger, which is quite simple to make..if you're making it from a soft material.

I'm using material called OSIKRO 4, discovered and made in Železarna Ravne (Metal Ravne), Slovenia, Europe. This material is very hard(after hardening and quenching), is used for industral cutting tools(mills, drills and lathe knives). Because of it's oxidation, I will have to make sure(after it's done) to keep it from rust; by bluing it.

Here's just a cutout of material(100x30millimeters), it's CNC surface grinded(from both sides) down to 3.5 millimeters, brushed from all sides, so it's symmetrical.

Here's just a block of wallnut's root wood, which need to be cut down for plates for this dagger.

The sheet will be made from black leather, probably shaped as arrow.