Making a Knife Maker's Center Scribe - Easy Project! Useful Tool!
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- This video shows the making of a knife maker's center scribe. This tool is uses to scribe a line down the center of a knife blade to add the maker in grinding symmetrical bevels. Knife maker Walter Sorrells demonstrates the project using a manual mill, but the tool can easily be made using simple hand tools.
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You are such a talented craftsman. You never act like you are superior to us who are not as skilled, but you always have an alternative method to achieve results.
Thank you.
you are not only a you tube star but a t v star also saw the show you was on i was rooting for you the whole time your still my hero
Nice version of an old wood working marking tool. For center finding on an edge I use an even older version. Take some flat stock drill a hole at the center of length through it's face. Then drill two holes either side of that center, equidistant. Put pins in those holes and scriber into center hole. Put the scriber to your working stock and twist the bar until the pins ride on the working stock. Slide it down your edge and instant center line.
It is amazing how easily you can get information about projects in this time. Im glad I
started knife making now and dont live in a generation in which you have to buy books and DvDs.
Just by watching your videos and Gough Custom's vids I am now able to make a knife. Thanks!
Yes,we must be grateful
Daniel 12:4
Increase of knowledge in the end times.
For finding the center of the blade just take your best guess then scribe it.Then scribe
from the other side of the blade.The center of the two lines will be your center. Just remember to make your guess close.
i love this guys sense of humor, hahaha keep at it Walter!
Hint for tool improvement: If you tap the brass scribe holder with a fine thread on the end away from the scribe as well, and put an appropriately sized nut on it, you will have either a repeatable stop for scribe position and/or a micro height adjustment.
He's always so happy it's amazing and uplifting
Another very informational and helpful video. Great work Walter!!!
Awesome build, thanks for the video!
Just spent a afternoon making one thanks walter
I appreciate you and your channel!
Thank's for sharing a well of knowledge on knife making Walter. I still have to make my first knife, but as I feel this is an excellent place to gather the most basic information about tools and techniques I need to get started, I found it to be a good idea to subscribe.
I've been watching your videos for 2 years and always wondered where you got your scribe!
How do you accurately find center with it?
Love the content so much help
Made one , works really great ,
I've been waiting on this for some time glad it's here
Me too
Chase Garrett Me three. This is really great content from the channel, and why I am a subscriber.
Nice tool.
Nice one
Hello Walter, nice video, as usual. Another great source of carbide scriber tips are the electrodes from TIG welders.
Great idea!
Cool, cheers.
Love your videos. You said you can make these without big power tools. Can you do that in one of your videos with hand tools please?
good video. good tool. thanks.
R.
Nice!
worn out tig welding bits make great scribers
so after I've made something like this, what's the best way to measure the depth of the scribe to make sure it gets a line down the center of my blade?
Hey, Walter. Do you think that you could make a drawknife one of these days? PLEASE?
Could i make this by replacing the brass or aluminum stock with wood?
Hi Walter, I started making knives because of you and I’m now working on my 7th blade. I decided to go with a forged Nessmuk style skinner. I love this tool you made and plan to make one tomorrow but while watching this video I began to wonder how I would use it, or any other method to find the center of my forged blank. I’m at the point where I’m ready to start grinding the bevels and just realized that I’m not sure exactly how to proceed. Any suggestions? Thanks
You can do this with simple tools.
Tools get progressively more and more complex
With basic shop tools (Files, drill press, small belt sander) how long do you see this project taking to complete? Thanks!
Made an ripp of version with an big bolt and a nut ...drilled a hole in the nut for the "axle" that is brass in the video and a broken drill as scribe...it does not look as good but works :) ..did not have any taps for thredding ;)
Awesome! Bit of a randy rhodes tone near the end there.
what's the distance from the block to the tip of the scribe?
Also do you always start with he same thickness on your blades before scribing,what is that thickness?
Thanks dad!
You should try using alcohol of some sort when tapping aluminium. Denatured or vodka, it all works great!
I have no doubt I could scribe a line somewhere with this. But isn't finding the center the point of using a drill bit (of a known size?
scribe line thingy works though!
what is the hand drill that you used called
what's the best angle to sharpen 3cm thick knife
If you have access to a surface grinder you can make your own parallels
Walter you're perfect person God will rewards you for your good deeds.
Amr Elsheikh or failing that your Patreons will
Yes I just realized that I have a hand made wooden version out of my dad's woodworking tools.
but how do you find the center of the blade?
Love the ps1 sound clip in the intro lok
How do you only have 300,000 subs?
You said the symmetrical grinds diminish the likelihood of warping during heat treating. But aren't a lot of Japanese knives ground with the bevel on one side only? That's about as asymmetrical as you can get. Do they always warp? How do they deal with warping?
Sam Harper Some knife makers heat treat and temper before doing the bevels. A chiesel grind would absolutly benefit from that technique.
They're usually done with an iron core so they when the blades inevitably warp, they just hammer it back to flat. Walter demonstrates this in his sushi knife video.
So you measure the thickness of the stock.......... then you adjust this extremely precise tool by hand. It isent set up like a digital caliper to be some what exact? Just use your eye and hand, is that correct? I mean that's a pretty big let down. You want a tool to help you find the true center line, so you buy this and then you do it by eye and hand. Unless I'm missing something, but like amazon this video really dosent show how it's used. So I'm trying to figure out if theres more to this than what I have figured on up above here.
how do u find the exact center with this scribe tho
minor scribe from one side, then the other. Adjust as necessary
I wanted to join but hate monthly payments. Can you have bulk payments too
Walter, is sticking something to a brass rod,
using a brass filler, soldering, brazing, or welding?
I'm pretty sure that it isn't soldering, (although
brazing 2 pieces of steel, IS soldering. (An
adhesive bond.) Welding USUALLY involves
steel, but wouldn't joining 2 pieces of brass?
Sounds like welding, to me.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldering
steve
In different trades, you'll find different answers to that questions. The general notion is that soldering is a low temperature operation (around 500F) and brazing is a higher temperature operation (typically above 900 F). In both cases, however, you're using a second (generally) dissimilar metal with a lower melting temp to join to other pieces of metal with a higher melting point, whereas welding involves actually melting the pieces which are being joined.
Walter, I was arguing semantics.
Is attaching 2 pieces of brass, using
brass filler, welding or brazing?
I'm saying both. :D
steve
Don't use oil on aluminium when drilling or tapping. The oil could cause the tap or drill to gall.
Absolutely not true. Aluminum is soft and will clog the flutes. It needs lubrication. Even WD40 works
You need to get yourself tapping collets for your mill sir.
Considering the amount of quality tools and machines that he has, I'm sure he has the collets.
Or, you can just use a felt pen and a Vernier caliper to scratch the center line.
I love these 'easy' project videos... Proceeds to use thousands of dollars worth of equipment. You can do it with simpler tools, however it will take forever and end up a piece of crap...
I am sure you can make it with hand tools and it would work fine. Now how many times it takes you to get it right who knows. I love this channel but wish he would just use tools everyone had available. It’s easy if you have expensive tools but not everyone has them.
Jesus, get a metal cutting bandsaw!
Frankly pretty high IQ stuff...hahaha!
I'd probably guess that 75% of the average knifemakers do not own milling machines...much less CNC Routers. It would be nice if you stuck to the basics. I'm sure those with advanced machinery can figure it out!
Mark Clark He explained how to do it with common tools, if you had the fancy tools you would use them too. It doesn't take a genius to realize the machines just replace a little bit of patience and elbow grease.
Mo Jo Of course I would...if I knew how to use them! That would require a 6 month internship (or longer) to fully understand how to use it.
Now, "parallels". I've never heard of those, either! So, I have to research and view videos for hours to figure out what THEY do! All I'm saying, is "Keep It Simple Stupid Stupid" (KISS and the millworkers can do their own thing!
If you watch a lot of my videos, you'll see that I try to do a wide variety of projects with a wide variety of tools. In some videos I do projects exclusively with extremely simple tools and in some I use much more complex tools. I could do every single project with a file and a hacksaw and a hand drill, but I view part of my mission as not only showing how you can do a job with the tools you have, but also introducing a glide path for makers to follow as they get more serious about the craft of knife making. I think a lot of viewers enjoy seeing tools used that they don't own because a big part of any hobby is imaging things you might do in the future!
,Mark Clark, while Walter does not need anyone to defend him, I feel compelled to do so on this point. I have watched almost every video he has made regarding knife making, sword making, shop set up, tools, etc. He has been making videos for the knife making crowd for a number of years now. If you look back at his videos there are a large portion of them dedicated to making knives with very simple tools. He takes great pains to show both sides. I usually don't comment on these kind of things but your comment was shortsighted and not well researched. He really does go the extra mile to make sure that anybody can make knives with whatever tools that one has available. Also it was many years before he ever asked for any financial support to do so. He has invested thousands of dollars into teaching others without the expectation of any financial reimbursement.
If you want to learn how to make knives and swords this is the man to watch.
I for one appreciate the insightful perspective Mr. Sorrells gives. His advise was around good practice, whether with a machine or by hand. Who cares to watch a speedup of 10 minutes worth of hand filing? I particularly enjoyed the tip around using the parallel bars and how to source them!
I'll give thumb down for every one of your posting accompanying your horrible tunes!
I think, many will agree with me!
we like your videos...only,
One thing I've learned is that if you assemble any group of human beings, you will never, ever, ever, ever have agreement about music. I put on classical music, somebody complains. I put on acoustic guitar, somebody complains. Metal, here comes another complainer. So I just put stuff on there that amuses me and that I don't have to pay royalties for.
Walter Sorrells
Walter, first I appreciate your response, meaning you care.
I agree with no one will be happy, so, how about "no music"?
not all videos are music accompanied an are just OK.
thanks.
Walter Sorrells use whatever u wanna use man. you got this far doing what you do, how you do it. why stop now ?
Always one man-gina in the crowd, smh