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Main Boards => Hunting Knives and Crafters => Topic started by: talkingcabbage on November 20, 2008, 10:06:00 AM
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I've been reading quite a lot on here lately, about knife/sheath making, and I've got a few questions...
I work at a granite countertop shop, and we have these 18" diamond silent-core blades for our bridge saw. I'm not sure what kind of metal is in them, or what makes them silent-core, but does anyone have experience with these in knife-making? Will they work?
About sheaths -- I can't really afford the fancy embossing tools for leather right now, so I was gonna make some. How do they work? Do they just stamp the leather, or do they cut into it? What kind of things could I make some embossing tools out of? I have access to some scrap metal and such, but I need a starting point. My leather working is elementary at this point, and I'd like to at least graduate junior high.
Thanks in advance to all.
Joe
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the ones I have use heat and presure ..... You can get a great starter kit at michaels arts and crafts for $ 29 and then gil out new staps from copper
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I use a basic stamp set from Tandy and make my deer and turkey prints out of a piece of round aluminum. I my stamps work by hitting them with a rubber or leather mallet on wet leather. Do a search on leather working. there was a couple of threads about basic leather tools.
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what about those blades? anyone have any thoughts on those? They could make some big knives (or a lot of little ones)