It's still a model

[Greg Myers]

https://www.wimp.com/guy-transforms-a-simple-bolt-into-a-tiny-knife/

[Snake45]

I'm pretty sure I could do that if the mood struck me. But one has to wonder, "Why?"

[Jim N]

Really phenomenal!  I can't imagine how much time that took, but the results are amazing.

[SfanGoch]

A valuable skill coveted by general population types in stir.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Nice piece of metalwork, using relatively primitive tools. No mill, no CNC, just somebody who knew how to use what he had.

[peteski]

While impressive, what I find really amazing and awe-inspiring is works of Willard Wiggan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan
For more photos of his work just go a Google Image search using his name.

 

Edited June 21, 2018 by peteski

[Snake45]

I watched it at work, and was skipping around. Did he heat-treat and quench the blade? If so, I missed it. If he didn't, one wonders why he didn't just start with a more suitably sized/shaped chunk of steel instead of going through all the torch-forging business. (And why laboriously cut the bolt head off one lug at a time? Why not just cut the whole head off? Looks like he had enough material.) 

[426 pack]

That thing is awesome.

For school I had to make knife as a metal work project and I wanted to make a mini knife like that. I did end up making a knife but it was about 16” longer.

 

Edited June 26, 2018 by 426 pack

[cobraman]

What school let you make a knife ?

[Snake45]

57 minutes ago, 426 pack said:

That thing is awesome.

For school I had to make knife as a metal work project and I wanted to make a mini knife like that. I did end up making a knife but it was about 16” longer.

 

I've seen winners on Forged in Fire that didn't look quite that nice! 

[426 pack]

2 hours ago, cobraman said:

What school let you make a knife ?

I’m home schooled and my cousin has his own forging equipment (no power hammer so I did it all by hand).  

1 hour ago, Snake45 said:

I've seen winners on Forged in Fire that didn't look quite that nice! 

Thanks. It took a total of two days to do and a lot of blisters. The first day was just the shaping of it with a hammer and the second day I cleaned it up, did all the grinding, quench, tampering, 2 hours of sanding by hand and biuld the handle. But it all started as a leaf spring. Let me just say that after making a knife myself I have a lot of respect for the guys on forged in fire that can do it in 3 hours. 

Here are a few mor pics of it.

this is it after day one.

My cousin built a knife as well to show me what I needed to do. 

This is is my knife along side my cousins knife.

[Ace-Garageguy]

12 minutes ago, 426 pack said:

I’m home schooled and my cousin has his own forging equipment (no power hammer so I did it all by hand).  

...It took a total of two days to do and a lot of blisters. The first day was just the shaping of it with a hammer and the second day I cleaned it up, did all the grinding, quench, tampering, 2 hours of sanding by hand and biuld the handle. But it all started as a leaf spring. Let me just say that after making a knife myself I have a lot of respect for the guys on forged in fire that can do it in 3 hours. 

 

Very nice, sir. Learning the old skills gives you an entirely different perspective to see the world from. Great work.

I have some body tools I re-forged from old leaf-springs. That's some good steel.  

[espo]

Shaping metal is a great skill to have, and when everything goes into the "Pull Chain Facility" you will have a skill set that few others will have.