/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1527578
>Has anyone here made their own folding knife of any kind?
I just found them too inordinately complicated, sort of to the point I could probably make 2-3 chefs knives or half a dozen paring knives in the time it takes to just get one folder working mostly ok. If you had a lot of machinist equipment no doubt it could be a decent production for someone to do, or go really low-tech and make a friction type folder.

>>1530764
Bowies kind of get easily dismissed. But there's quite a bit of complicated edge geometry particularly around the tip where you're essentially having a double-edged dagger coming in across two arcs. Where the top edge is concave and the leading cutting edge is convex with some amount of depth and then you've got to make sure that those two angles will meet exactly on the tip, otherwise it'll be considerably weaker.
The other thing to remember that they're a fighting knife primarily
You can do some fairly brutal butchering of game and very light camp duties with them (so they have some utility) they don't do skinning, splitting logs and other random acts of tool abuse fuckery like pretending to be a machete or an axe very well at all. As a fighting knife you want a severe distal taper in there to take weight out of the blade so its light, nimble and quick to move, angle and relatively easy to ready in your hand- literally from 4-5mm at the hilt/across the rear of the spine all the way down to 0 at the tip.

>>1531217
Mate, its just a bit of absurd/gallows humour, don't be getting all geopolitical
Simple fact is people get severely injured and die a fair bit from having a piece of metal thrown at them by a machine. Not necessarily a knife, but in our case it'll be a knife shaped and sharp object being thrown by 1-2hp in your general direction. Oh and you will be losing money even with public health care, because you're sure a fuck not going to be working for a while