Lockback damast knife #9

This knife is one of my first I received, it probably has serial number under 10.

The blade is 85 millimeters long and 4 millimeters thick and is shaped somehow as a feather..Or just I see it that way.

To wooden, walnut and damascus combination handle with brass pins, is blade attached with a brass screw from both sides. Wooden part of handle is attached to the middle part with 5 brass pins from each side, while the damascus part with 2 screws M4 from both sides.

Middle part is made from 2 millimeters thick brass plate, which works as spring for lock and is decorated with different shaped grooves all around. On the back, there's also a stainless steel part(which is also decorated), which prevents the blade from turning all around the axis.

Small brass pin attached to blade helps it to open or close.

Knife sheat is made for this knife, it fits perfectly. It's made from 3 millimeters thick black leather, thich has leather strap on back for belt and pin on top, for lock knife safely.

2 kubotans with dagger blades

Here are 2 kubotans I received this week. A friend from USA send them to me, as a gift.

There are two colors, the silver one is from stainless steel, while the black one is from regular steel and is gun blued; blades on both of them are made from stainless steel, are both edged and both razor sharp.

The handle has 15 millimeters in diameter and while it's closed, it's 105 millimeters long. It has rough grooves  on the outside, for much much better grip. If you unscrew the last part of the handle, you get out 60 millimeters long dagger style blade, that can be screwed back to handle, and you get a knife.

On bottom, there's a drilled through hole, that has attached a keychain ring, so it can grab your thumb.

Quite simple, effective and dangerous weapon!

Yugoslavian bayonet M-48

This is old Yugoslavian bayonet from a rifle M-48 I purchased in November, but I completed it last week; the leather I got.

M-48 rifle is actually a identical Yugoslavian copy of German Karabin 98 - They were manufacturing them after World War II., mostly in city Preduzeče(Serbia)...and so these bayonets.

It's made from not so quality steel(although, the bayonet is used for stabbing and slashing, not exactly cutting or ripping), it has rounded groove for the nearly whole lenght of the blade.

Guard has a hole 15 millimeters in diameter drilled through, it's used for attaching the bayonet to the rifle. Same as the groove on the back side of handle, where is located a spring in a button, that keeps the bayonet at it's spot.

Wooden plates are attached to knife with two steel nuts, firstly screwed together, then hammered and filed down. It's quite compact alltogether.

The back of the handle is shaped as most of bayonets, for grip, that is hard to be pulled out of hand -> an eagle's head.

Stamps on knife are two triangles, PREDUZEČE 44 (town, where it was made and factory number) and a serial number - 65642.

Scabbard is made from two parts, metal and leather part: Metal scabbard is long 270 millimeters and 40 millimeters wide at it's widest point. It has a spring in it, to prevent the bayonet from falling out.
The leather part is attached onto scabbard through a small hole, that hardly fits to a metal grip. On top of it, it has belt for tighting the blade into scabbard and a loop for belt.

All metal parts are blued, same as scabbard.

Leather is black/dark grey colout and is double stiched.

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

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.

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