WWA Info Exchange

Last week I posted my first try at making a marking knife. It is usable but UGLY!!
Now, Lawernce has joined the DIY knife making club and did a bang up job using a lathe and everything!!! (check out his post)
Then, along came Gene to help me out with some real plans! So, I just had to try again and make it pretty this time too.
So, who is next? There a thousand designs out there and I know alot of people here have even better ideas, so please show us your "home-made scriber".

Here is #two (and counting) for me....



See "Marking Knife # 2"

Yea, that is a knife. It just has the sheath on the blade in this shot. The sheath is held on with a magnet and is suppose to keep me from stabing myself. (Mom never let me play with sharp objects but, she did send me out into heavy traffic alot )




See "Second Marking knife"

OK, here is the blade. Im not sure it is going to keep a sharp edge very well though. I made this one out of 3/8" key stock and ground one side down to 3/16" and put the cutting edge on it. I'm afraid that key stock might not be hard enough to keep a sharp edge for very long but, we will see. (I probably won't use it enough to get it too dull.)



See "Second Marking Knife side"

Oh yea, the wood is maple with cherry accent stripe. Just some scrap I had laying around. The contrast isn't very strong but, maybe the cherry will darken in time!

NEXT........

Rog

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tools and beer, the rest I just wasted.

That looks like a real fine way to keep the blade covered-- nice job

(this could get to be addictive)

Lawrence

Good job! Glad I could help.

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Now ya'll have me thinking about making myself a marking knife. I know I have some old chain saw files, wondering how they would come out using them for a marking knife.
Will look into that in the future.

Wayne

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WW'ers I have met.
Guroo
Verna
Wooder
Paul, (brother,)
Falcon1.
Gene and his friend George