/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Anyway knife noobs, here's your first project before you go leaping into the grinder

A bevel scribe

Took me about 45min to make it in a cave full of scraps
>Sheet of metal, long as its dead flat
>Fix it onto the side of some nice straight timber
>Drill a hole through the side
>Drill a hole through the top to line up with the side hole the dowel/pin sit in
>Mount a bolt to act as the lock
>Dowel or rod to mount the scribe on, flatten the top so that the locking bolt clamps down 90degrees to it

Scribe is just a piece of scrap O1, hardened and then silver-soldered into the end. But the other easy solution for a scribe is just a sharpened drill bit rammed in there. Long as its 90degrees to the pin/dowel you're all good
To use, set the depth, lock the pin with the bolt, run down the side of the blade so there's a couple of nice lines to act as your grinding guide. Generally I leave about 0.25-0.5mm as the edge before heat treating, but it depends on the steel.

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>anyhow, have a tiny little whittling/pen-knife in O1, sterling silver and bog oak.
I really like your bolsters, a lot actually!