Knifemaking Tuesdays Week 51 - Designing my Integral knife Media
Published: 11 years ago
This week I show you the process I use to design a new knife in CAD. Since everything I do revolves around CNC machining, it all has to start in CAD.
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The new knife I'm designing doesn't have a name yet, but for now I'm calling it the Integral because that's what it is, the handle will be made from one solid piece of titanium. It's an exciting project, integral knives have a very cool aura around them because they're relatively simple but extremely complicated to pull off. It will be noticeably smaller than my Norseman knife, with it's blade length coming in at 3". My goal is to make it an awesome little EDC knife (Every Day Carry). The Norseman is fun but definitely on the large side.
To design the knife I often start with what I know, and that's my previous designs. I'm not the kind of guy that can just sit down and draw 100 designs, I like to find something cool and completely change it until I like it. This video shows the process of how I do that, how I tweak the general shape of the handles or blade, how I contour them, how I do a swept cut for the edge bevels, etc. It's fun geeky stuff, and I'm really glad to have all you guys along for the journey!
Thanks for watching!
www.GrimsmoKnives.com
www.JohnGrimsmo.com/newsletter.htm
The new knife I'm designing doesn't have a name yet, but for now I'm calling it the Integral because that's what it is, the handle will be made from one solid piece of titanium. It's an exciting project, integral knives have a very cool aura around them because they're relatively simple but extremely complicated to pull off. It will be noticeably smaller than my Norseman knife, with it's blade length coming in at 3". My goal is to make it an awesome little EDC knife (Every Day Carry). The Norseman is fun but definitely on the large side.
To design the knife I often start with what I know, and that's my previous designs. I'm not the kind of guy that can just sit down and draw 100 designs, I like to find something cool and completely change it until I like it. This video shows the process of how I do that, how I tweak the general shape of the handles or blade, how I contour them, how I do a swept cut for the edge bevels, etc. It's fun geeky stuff, and I'm really glad to have all you guys along for the journey!
Thanks for watching!