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Videos for Your
Education and Entertainment
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Making
A Camp Knife
ADM Knives ( www.ADMKnives.com) were kind enough to give us a nice, behind the scened look at how they go about making their excellent , hardworking, custom knives. I'm alsways fascinated to see how the other guys do it. |
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Behind
the Scenes with Jim Moyer
Another behind the scenes tour of knifemaker Jim Moyer (JMoyerKnives.Com) . Some nice video of Jim's freehand hollow grinding. ( I hope to be able to do that someday!) |
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Making
Knives on a Budget
Produced by Wally Hayes....yeah, the guy who does those gorgeous Japanese knives and swords. This is a teaser to get you to buy the DVD ( well worth it, by the way) and skips a few a steps. Still very interesting to see a professional's workshop. |
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| Note: The author of this video has requested that we not embed his video, but it can be watched by clicking HERE or HERE |
Making a Hidden Tang Knife: I found this great little step by step video outlining everything you need to do to make a great little hidden tang knife. Entertaining especially since there is no narration, only a relaxing music sound track. I also like his emphasis on using common workshop tools.
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Making
the Predator Blade: Another well done step-by-step tutorial set to music with no words. I've never been tempted to try a hand grinder for making a blade, but I may have to re-think my position. (Did you notice the band-aid on his finger? I bet there's a story there)
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Stock
Removal Knifemaking
Behind the scenes at Clearwater Knives ( cwknives.blogspot.com ) where he shows you his excellent techniques for hollow grinding. In addition, he has some good information on heat treating and tempering. Full video can be purchased at: http://peterroise.com |
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Traditional
Knife Making: Hidden Tang
Traditional method of knifemaking with a step by step video going from mounting the handles and shaping, all the way through making the sheath and engraving. Interesting bit on tapping the threads for the pommel |
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Knife
Grinder for the Intermediate Knifemaker
Making a great knife belt sander without spending a fortune. Very informative video from Purgatory Iron Works. Yes, it can be done. |
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Inventive
Knife Grinder
Purgatory Knife Works is back with more ideas on a home made knife belt grinder--this one requires no welding. A very inventive, workable idea for someone who isn't ready to plunk down $1500 for a knife belt grinder yet. |
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Cord wrapped knife handle At last! A halfway decent tutorial on how to do a nice looking cord wrapped knife handle. Peter Atwood of Atwood Knives demonstrates how to make a comfortable and functional handle. Although the knife he does in this demo is small, the techniques can be applied to any size knife. ( For more about his knives and interesting tools, you might want to take a gander at Peter's interesting website at: http://www.atwoodknives.com/ ) |
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Another
cord wrap handle video tutorial, this one a little bit longer and more detailed.
Actually, it's long enough that Devil Dwarf Bladesmith ended up uploading
it in two parts. Nice technique and he goes slow enough that even I
understood it.
Link on the left shows you part 1, for Part 2, click HERE. |
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| aa | Alton Brown of the Food Network's show Good Eats, talks about keeping your knives sharp. I'm not sure if I agree with him about sending knives out instead of sharpening them yourself, but this does have a nice segment on the use of a sharpening steel. | ||
| All About Kitchen Knives: A very useful and informative seven minute tutorial about choosing and caring for kitchen knives. Hosted by Chef Jean-Pierre, who gives some great tips on what to look for in a good knife. More good lessons on the use of a sharpening steel. | |||
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Knife
Sharpening 101. The name pretty much says it all. Great primer on keeping the edge sharp. I like this lady's approach. |
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Kids, Don't try this at home!
We've talked about knife safety too much already. Just for a break, take a look at this guy juggling knives. Easy, you say? OK, try it on a unicycle. |
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| What could be more gratifying than seeing a professional samurai slice a tomato with his razor sharp sword in one swift stroke? Seeing it in slow motion, of course!! | |||
| Excellent little tutorial on forming the leather for a pouch type of sheath. Its in Polish, but I don't think you'll have any problem following the steps that he's going through. | |||
| Here's an entertaining professionally made video of the factory environment that good blades come out of: A tour of the Leatherman factory in Portland, Oregon. You'll really appreciate the precision that goes into production after seeing this. . | |||
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