Welcome to Team Wild Academy. Now this week we've come up to Nottingham to meet Rob Rowley
of RK Knifes and Catapults. Rob? You alright?
Pleased to meet you. Pleased to meet you, buddy.
Now this guy is gonna take us through the whole process from taking a piece of steel
and turn it into a knife. He's gonna show us the whole process right the way through
to the finished product. I'm looking forward to it.
Should be good fun, Rob. Yep.
How did you get into making knifes and catapults in the first place, mate? A couple of years ago, really.
The first venturer, obviously in this village, was to the father-in-law,
which is now the father-in-law, he actually had some knife blanks on his shelf, so I bought
a couple of those, I fit the handles, made the sheath strip, and then he was a bit restricted
on what you could buy obviously in a blank state and I looked into it more and actually
decided, I'll do it myself. So I bought the blank steel and I took it from there, basically.
Brilliant. So instead of making airfix models mate you
started making knifes. So anyway, you gonna get on and show us?
Yep. Rob's good lady just made us a bacon butty.
Killer. So I recon me and you go and have that we'll
let these guys get on with it, eh?
That'll do it for me. Ding, dang do.
Alright so today, we're gonna show roughly how we make a knife from blank steel up to
the finished product. So starting off, we're got a template obviously,
that we use and then we've got the blank steel, which this is a one grade tool steel.
So on that, we draw the template onto the piece of steel and then that gives us
our blank.
With the drawn out blank on there.
From there we mark out three pin holes, which is then drilled out on the drill press.
Then we go along to the grinder and we profile the blank.
So we'll come out with a profile blank like that.
Once that's all done, you fit the handle onto it, and then you put your handle blank.
It always looks a bit of a mess at this stage, because you've the glue all over the place,
but once all that's cleaned up it's pretty decent from there.
And then you come across and you gonna end up with your finished knife.
Once it's all profiled and shaped and your final cutting edge and we're also gonna look
at the actual sheath making as well. So, I'll show you roughly how to make the
sheath at the end.
Right so, this is a 1-inch Linisher, more of a belt sander and we're gonna use this to profile
this blank into the ready to grind bevel blank, basically.
So we'll just do some of that on there.
There is quite a bit of noise from this so you'll have to bare with me a second.
Alright so now we've done all the initial profiling, that's the blank all ready for
the bevel. Alright so now we're gonna mount this blank
into the jig and this will allow me to duplicate the bevel, basically on the knife, on both
sides. It's quite simple.
Mount it into there.
Tighten her up.
There we go, that now gives me a good steady hold on the knife so I can get a really good
bevel on there.
Alright so now, I'm gonna go to the grinder and do the main bevel.
Alright so that's the first bevel done. You can see, nice and even and I'm gonna flip
the knife around now so we can do the other side.
Just gonna loosen them off.
And tighten it back up.
An there it is ready to do the other side.
Alright, so we're gonna do the second bevel on there now.
Alright, and that's it. That's the two bevel's done. I'm just gonna take it out of the jig.
And there we go. That's pretty nicely matched up then and now it's all ready for the heat
treat. So, fire the oven up and into there it goes for heating up.
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