Throwing knife
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Time: About 4 hours
From scrap: ██████████ 100%
PreambleThrowing knifes - very interesting and skill entertainment. Theoretically, you can accurately throw a knife or any sharp-edged thing, but throwing knife is the best one. Large, heavy and balanced. Naturally, they cost money, but if you have old file or similar piece of steel... read this article, you can make of them throwing knives!
Materials- File or similar piece of metal
Tools- Fireplace with coals or stove
- The angle grinder
- Emery
- Vices
- Drill
- Bucket of water
- About file
The file is made of high carbon tool steel and hardened. Ttrating such material (and even more making knifes of it) is too hard, so the metal is necessary to anneal. (Wikipedia: Annealing, in metallurgy and materials science, is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable. It involves heating a material to above its recrystallization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperature, and then cooling.) There is the only one negative aspect of making knife at home: process require heating and slow cooling.But if your workshop in the garage or on the balcony of the house, there is a solution: a gas burner to heat the file, and then slowly cool it in a container with hot sand. - Step 1
If you are in the country, you will need to fire coals. Put your metal parts there and wait, sometimes fanning the embers. Look closer at the next photo and you will see glowing file among coals. So heat your metal to the dark red
- Step 2
... and let it cool slowly. Use an angle-grinder machine, cut unnecessary parts and make a sharp corner
- Step 3
Grind your homemade throwing knife with 4 sides
- Step 4
You need to left a flat surface between two sharp edges for make a groove
- Step 5
Fix knife on the vise
- Step 6
And make a groove with angle grinder
- About balance
The center of mass of knife must be at the location where the handle passes into the blade. If you do not match, you need to drill some holes to move the center of mass. - Step 7
When sharpening a knife will be completed, it is necessary to heat homemade throwing knife again to make it stronger. Heat it to the red glowing and then rapidly put it into the water. Then heat again up to ~250 degrees (not glowing) and left it for slowly cooling.
- Step 8
You can polish your knife, or make a picture on it (you can read here how to make a picture on knife). I wind it round with a rope.
And second homemade throwing knife
It is comfortable to open a beer with this flange =)
Now you know how to make a throwing knife, it's not so hard. Just improve your grinding skills, using a wood, then make a knife
How to make a throwing knife
Grinding
Quenching
Video
Results and tips- Make a throwing knife from a file is not too difficult
- You can make ordinary knife by adding a wood handle
