Thread: Show me your knives

Stunning Nga.

Can anyone recommend someone who does a good sharpening/refinishing service? I butchered a deer in the workshop the other day and made the mistake of leaving my knife sitting on the work bench... found one of my workers today using it to cut bloody polywire Haha. Knife is pretty special to me and wasn't cheap so I dont really want any old cowboy hacking away at it and would like the mirror finish to be retained, cant really pick it up in the picture but the knife survived the abuse for the most part other than loosing its edge and it has a tiny little damaged spot near the tip that should come out no worries with someone who knows what they're doing

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Can anyone recommend someone who does a good sharpening/refinishing service? I butchered a deer in the workshop the other day and made the mistake of leaving my knife sitting on the work bench... found one of my workers today using it to cut bloody polywire Haha. Knife is pretty special to me and wasn't cheap so I dont really want any old cowboy hacking away at it and would like the mirror finish to be retained, cant really pick it up in the picture but the knife survived the abuse for the most part other than loosing its edge and it has a tiny little damaged spot near the tip that should come out no worries with someone who knows what they're doing
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@Nga if he can't I'm sure he could reccomend someone, or @Shelley ?

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Can anyone recommend someone who does a good sharpening/refinishing service? I butchered a deer in the workshop the other day and made the mistake of leaving my knife sitting on the work bench... found one of my workers today using it to cut bloody polywire Haha. Knife is pretty special to me and wasn't cheap so I dont really want any old cowboy hacking away at it and would like the mirror finish to be retained, cant really pick it up in the picture but the knife survived the abuse for the most part other than loosing its edge and it has a tiny little damaged spot near the tip that should come out no worries with someone who knows what they're doing
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Yeah I can fix that, won’t mar the mirror polish, will just work on the edge, I can take it up to 50000 grit with my system so its mint and the edge will be polished, I charge $5 if the edge is under 100mm or $7.50 if it’s over 100 mm.
Will take me a day to do, if you post it with a prepaid return envelope then I can get it back to you the next day, you can pay me when you get it back, if you don’t like the finish then don’t pay.
Shelley 021727546.

Knife number 4, 01 steel, stabilized poplar burl from Slovenia , G10 liners . Again lots of firsts for me with new materials and re-curve blade shape . Again all done with files and wet and dry paper, already starting on the next knife...bit addictive I must say

Had a crack at giving my knife back its edge myself. It's back to hair popping sharp but I need to work it on a waterstone I think to give it back the polished look

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Had a crack at giving my knife back its edge myself. It's back to hair popping sharp but I need to work it on a waterstone I think to give it back the polished look
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Get it on the strop bro. Will bring back the mirror with a bit of elbow grease

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New filleting weapon. Bring on Kingi season

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My 5th knife , just finished today.
Japanese style kitchen knife. First go at a hidden tang, 12c27 stainless blade.
Far from perfect but I enjoyed making a working kitchen knife and learn't a lot in the process.
Hunting knife is currently about half done so I will post that once complete.

That's cool as well done

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Originally Posted by NRT

That's cool as well done

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Thanks, got a long way to go yet at knife 5. Early days and I have ideas where I want my blades to head after this build.

So after losing my knife I got for my 21st

I have been on the lookout for another but not found anything I like yet at I price I am willing to pay!

So yesterday after dropping the kids at school I dropped into the local hospice shop to see if there were any hidden treasures lurking undiscovered.
Not much caught my eye, so I was about to leave but for some reason decided to have a look at the kitchen section.
Amongst the piles of rubbish kitchen knives I spotted one of these (stupidly I forgot to take a before photo)


It had a 3mm chunk out of the edge about 20mm from the hilt but at the princely sum of $3 I couldn’t resist.

I originally just thought I would give it a sharpen and use as is, but then the mind started turning over (a problem of mine)

So into the garage and out came the grinder, files, sander, various grit sandpapers and a rough guide that I printed of the old knife I had lost as a template.


I had not done this before so after trying lots of different methods and about 2 hours this is what resulted!



Pretty chuffed with the end result, just need to find a sheath for it now. Still has a little remenant if the chip out of the blade but hopefully after a few sharpens it will disappear.
It may not be beautiful like my old knife but should stand me in good stead until a suitable replacement is found, or until I bite the bullet and get a Bark River


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Originally Posted by Spudattack

So after losing my knife I got for my 21st

I have been on the lookout for another but not found anything I like yet at I price I am willing to pay!

So yesterday after dropping the kids at school I dropped into the local hospice shop to see if there were any hidden treasures lurking undiscovered.
Not much caught my eye, so I was about to leave but for some reason decided to have a look at the kitchen section.
Amongst the piles of rubbish kitchen knives I spotted one of these (stupidly I forgot to take a before photo)


It had a 3mm chunk out of the edge about 20mm from the hilt but at the princely sum of $3 I couldn’t resist.

I originally just thought I would give it a sharpen and use as is, but then the mind started turning over (a problem of mine)

So into the garage and out came the grinder, files, sander, various grit sandpapers and a rough guide that I printed of the old knife I had lost as a template.


I had not done this before so after trying lots of different methods and about 2 hours this is what resulted!



Pretty chuffed with the end result, just need to find a sheath for it now. Still has a little remenant if the chip out of the blade but hopefully after a few sharpens it will disappear.
It may not be beautiful like my old knife but should stand me in good stead until a suitable replacement is found, or until I bite the bullet and get a Bark River


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Clever. Nice job.

Originally Posted by Spudattack

So after losing my knife I got for my 21st

I have been on the lookout for another but not found anything I like yet at I price I am willing to pay!

So yesterday after dropping the kids at school I dropped into the local hospice shop to see if there were any hidden treasures lurking undiscovered.
Not much caught my eye, so I was about to leave but for some reason decided to have a look at the kitchen section.
Amongst the piles of rubbish kitchen knives I spotted one of these (stupidly I forgot to take a before photo)


It had a 3mm chunk out of the edge about 20mm from the hilt but at the princely sum of $3 I couldn’t resist.

I originally just thought I would give it a sharpen and use as is, but then the mind started turning over (a problem of mine)

So into the garage and out came the grinder, files, sander, various grit sandpapers and a rough guide that I printed of the old knife I had lost as a template.


I had not done this before so after trying lots of different methods and about 2 hours this is what resulted!



Pretty chuffed with the end result, just need to find a sheath for it now. Still has a little remenant if the chip out of the blade but hopefully after a few sharpens it will disappear.
It may not be beautiful like my old knife but should stand me in good stead until a suitable replacement is found, or until I bite the bullet and get a Bark River


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SAcub the name off the handle and sell it on Trademe as a Fallkniven F1

Originally Posted by kiwijames

SAcub the name off the handle and sell it on Trademe as a Fallkniven F1

Haha! Good idea!


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