Knifemaking Tuesdays Week 45 - Tor handles and blades Media

Published: 12 years ago

With 2 weeks to go until the Tormach CNC workshop that we're teaching, we have a lot of little things to finish up and streamline. In this video I finish up the steel fixture that we're using, make a set of 3D machined aluminum handles, then a set of Micarta handles, then a finished blade!

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The first 8 minutes are spent fixing and finishing the fixture that I made in Week 44, I had to face it down again, engrave it again, and ovalize the main clamping holes.

During 8 minutes to 20 minutes I go through the process of making my first set of 3D machined handles out of aluminum. I immediately broke a tool, a 1/4" ballmill, due to some dumb choices and settings on my part. Lesson learned, I fixed it for next time. This segment shows in detail some of the profiling operations used to make the handle look like a handle instead of a rectangle, as well as how cool the 3D pattern looks. I love machining intricate stuff like this and can't wait to do more of it!

20-28 minutes were spent making another set of handles out of Micarta, with several improvements to the code. These worked out very well and look freakin amazing! I've never worked with Micarta before, but I love it.

The last segment of the video goes over making the first blade out of some basic 1018 steel from the local metal store. I don't plan on heat treating it or even using it as a knife, this was just proof of concept. I learned plenty of mistakes in this process, which will make the next blade go smoother and hopefully look nicer too.
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