Survival knives for Christmas

[Lynn Gledhill]

Here is a pic of some survival knives I made for Christmas gifts. They were forged from OTS (old truck springs). Drew them out on the Little Giant 25; hand beveled; profiled; annealed; drilled; ground; hardened in oil about 140 degrees; oven tempered for 2 hours at 350; handled; pinned; sharpened. I didn't imagine the amount of time or work that these would take although I have made a number of knives. I used one to hack a trail from the river while I was steelhead fishing last week... Worked great as a machete.

[Rashelle]

Cool Lynn. Now I'm hungry for steelhead or salmon though.

[Tom Allyn]

Real nice, Lynn. I like the shape of the handles.

I'm curious about the brass eyes through the handles. Did you use some sort of flaring punch on those? Are they functioning both as a rivet and an eye? Neat detail in any case.

[Bruce Macmillan]

Don't leave home without it! A great design for survival, not quite a machete but small enough to shave with.....

[sam salvati]

Lynn those are really slick, great work. Hope the steel will hold up to the acid blood of the motherinlaw

[Lynn Gledhill]

Real nice, Lynn. I like the shape of the handles.

I'm curious about the brass eyes through the handles. Did you use some sort of flaring punch on those? Are they functioning both as a rivet and an eye? Neat detail in any case.

The eyelets are just brass tubing... You can flare it a little with a punch, but have to be very careful 'cause as it flares you can split the handle... I know... been there. These have not been flared, just super glued in. You can put a leather thong thru the hole and have a loop round your wrist while chopping/hacking.

[Tom Allyn]

... You can flare it a little with a punch, but have to be very careful 'cause as it flares you can split the handle... I know... been there.

Me, too.