Thread: Making a knife

Ss+m in Auckland and Christchurch sell O1 and other tool steels suitable for a knife, they will also temper them for you once you have roughed out the shape, I got loveless blots from the UK bot they may be a closer source, and don't let anyone tell you that just putting scales on a knife is easy, if you are shaping it all by hand and want to do a good job it's hard work...also even the Japanese sword smiths of old dot not make the swords alone, someone made the blade, someonelse the sheath, someone else the sharpening...