I just found a random Kershaw blade in the street. Is it possible to turn it into a fixed blade knife without forging a tang into it? I’ve never made a knife anything before.
by KaleOpening1945
I just found a random Kershaw blade in the street. Is it possible to turn it into a fixed blade knife without forging a tang into it? I’ve never made a knife anything before.
by KaleOpening1945
6 Comments
not worth the trouble, throw it away. to give it any kind of strength you’d need to weld a tang of some sort onto it.
Let’s say you make a handle. It will need a hole to bolt the blade in. There’s a hole.
What you have then created is a pivot point.
There is the channel cut in the blade, so maybe you could create a bar to sit there and lock the blade in place. If it slips or moves, it will not hold.
If you had a second hole, you would also bolt it there, but you need to make that hole. This is tempered steel, and will kill any drill bit you might have laying around. (Not saying it can’t be drilled, but it requires special tools)
Welding a tang on will heat up the blade and ruin the hardness.
You could weld on a tang, then heat treat it all again and have a mediocre blade for a fixed blade.
Not really worth it
no
Possible but not practical. That is to say it can be done but that doesn’t mean it should be done.
I mean, probably you could do it, but chances are it’s not going to be strong enough. At all.
Make a friction folder.