Making a Survival Neck Knife

hey guys welcome back to the Artic raster chip my name is Dustin and today we're gonna be making a survival neck knife I decided to make him neck knife a couple years ago had seen some nice designs on the Internet and kind of came up with my own design kind of this leaf pattern with a drop point when I was deciding what to do for the neck knife I thought the most versatile use of a neck knife would be to have it kind of a more of a survival neck knife so do a paracord wrap on it it comes with about five feet of paracord that'll wrap the handle so once you can always take that off and use that paracord to latch the blade onto a spear shaft you can use it to pull fibers from the paracord and fish with lots of different uses for paracord in the field so when I started making knives I was doing a lot of knives out of old circular saw blades they're already hardened you don't worry about heat treating they're nice and easy to work with something that everybody can do so I decided to be easy to do that and the nice thing about that is that the hardened steel is not so hard that it's not easy enough to sharpen in the field so usually keep a small piece of sandpaper with it you can also sharpen it on the smooth stone that you find in the river it works pretty well it's hard enough that'll hold an edge but not so hard that you can't actually touch it up in the field so it's nice and easy and accessible and something that you guys can do really easily as well so if you have old circular saw blades or an old steel lying around that you're not sure if it's hard or not you can make kind of smaller knives things that you're thinking about your gonna use and you're going to resharpen pretty often in the field so what we'll do is we'll actually trace this out on a piece of circular saw so I have a piece here of some extra pieces that I cut off of this same type of blade so we'll we'll go ahead and trace that out and cut it out and start shaping it all right so we're gonna cut this out on the Porta bandsaw I've used all sorts of different techniques to cut these out before but I'm borrowing this for my brother I did make a little table for it out of another circular saw blade this works really well so can I pin the vise and set it up and use a portable bandsaw for metal cutting alright guys there have been a few comments left in the comments on my knife making videos about my angle grinder jig so I wanted to show a little bit more about it in this video so with the jig I just took my grinder I took a flat piece of oak and I kind of laid my grinder on the oak and traced around it and just kind of had a general shape of my grinder so then I took two pieces of wood to start out with screwed them from the bottom here and there's this screwed into the side and honestly glue them and then I took my third piece of wood and once I had to grind her in I just put it really nice and tight against it screw them from the bottom so it holds it real secure so it doesn't shake and then I just put a couple screws directly down straight through the bottom of the grit of the jig into the tabletop and it works really well you know I have an MDF tabletop so I'm not too worried about screwing it and if you had a nicer tabletop you could clamp it on but this works well I just finished up the general shaping on the grinder it's nice to use those grinding discs they're a lot cheaper than the belts are for the sander so just do all the general shaping with that and now I'll move over to the sander and do the final shaping all right we are all now ground down to our template line nice even and I kind of went around took off the burrs on the edge as well so now we'll clamp it up in our bevel jig and we'll put the bevels on so I'm just using a sharpie marker to mark the edge blacken the edge and then I'll use the marking gauge and the point owner will just scratch a line there do you see it or pick up on that but now you can see the line so I'll just flip it over I'll do it there we go so I'm gonna start out with ten degrees and see how that looks I'm just gonna clamp it up down to my angle iron and just kind of make this row the two points are close to parallel with the top of the jig clap that down then we'll be ready to grind all right so I'm just keeping an eye on my bevel making sure that it stays even all the way across you'll see that it dips a little bit here so I'll just add a little bit more pressure on this end and there's even pressure all the way and I'll keep dipping in the water keeping the heat treat since the blades already heat treated I didn't want to keep that treat in it so I'll keep it cool in the water 40s we got 80s 120 switched to a 120 and I may actually switch to an old 120 at the end just to get the final polish so I'm down now to an edge all the way across and actually down and actually gotten all the way to the edge now on the very tip where it's actually starting to create a burr on the other side so I'm gonna stop there oh so close that I actually be able to finish all this up on a sharpening stone for now we're gonna work on the flats and then we'll drill the holes and do the handle wrap as well so I just have a piece of 220 grit sandpaper here I'm just gonna lay this plate flat on just work back and forth flatten it out and I use a tile this is a stone tile that I got and it's just a nice flat hard flat surface I have this paper self of a roll automotive sandpaper I'm gonna go ahead and cut another piece I picked this up from a consignment store I think I got it for maybe $15 or so for the whole roll and this will last me for a long time and we keep working on that front first side all right we're good we're nice and posture on both sides now so we'll go ahead and Mark it again and we'll drill the holes and I have two different sizes so the initials I have two here which starts the starts the handle wrap those are three sixteenths and then pull at the back of the handle is one quarter I had those both here so we'll go ahead and take it over to Joe Press and throw those up I'm gonna use a half inch bit now just to put a beveled chamfer on those smaller holes you can see those chamfered edges now that way they don't cut into the handle material the paracord that we use I say you want to start by just feeding your two ends through pull it all the way through and make sure at the center so again just line your ends up pull it tight so now we're know we're all the way at the center so this point what you do is you just twist it and let go around to the other side once you get to the other side you want to twist it once and you're twisting it twice because what you want to do is you want that same wrap so the piece that came from this side is gonna go around the other piece and go back to the same side and just make sure this over lapped part the cross part is in the center flip around the other side always try to twist the same way so away from myself once all around all the way just slide it up pull it tight keep kind of working it up and pull it tight so again we have the the twist is right in the middle of the handle still on the same thing on the other side so go ahead over at the other side twist it away from yourself all the way and then so now you can see both twists are coming over and back the same way we'll just keep kind of pushing it up pull it tight work back to the other side and I kind of came up with this wrap style you can wrap it any way but this what this does is it gives it just gives you some more bulk in the handle so it's a little bit more material it gives you just a little bit heavier handle a little bit block your handle gives you more and hold on to just keep on holding your strings tight and pushing up as you go keeping those Criss crosses right down the center of the handle back the other side just away from yourself I'll trick you sometimes but you just pull it tight keep pushing just make those fine adjustments so each of your Criss crosses line up straight down the handle Center so you can kind of just if you're on a wooden surface you put the tip down on the table and just use your fingers to kind of slide the material up once you start getting close to the end make sure it's nice and tight and then once we get down to the end which I think I have maybe about one more wrap try to get to see if I get one more over here so what I'll do now so you have to have your two ends of paracord again you want to make sure that both ends of your paracord are coming from different directions so right now when we finish that final wrap we have both ends of the paracord on one side so then usually what I'll do is I'll bring this one all the way around and then we can feed it so now it's on the other side and feed it through and then this last one this one now can go up over top of that and we'll feed that one through as well and that's the reason why this bottom hole is a little bigger because you have to be able to fit the two lines through get in there there we go nice and tight so now we have both ends coming out different sides make sure everything is nice and tight pull it tight and then you're just gonna do a regular overhand knot with both strings together just once around and through just keeps make sure you have with your hand that's holding oh just keep it tight that's keeping it tight on the handle I know all my strings are wrapped tightly held on get this circuit through there I can pull this through and then just try to work this knot down keeping your strings both pieces of cord nice and even just keep tightening it down as tight as you can get it down onto the end of the handle and I like to make sure that my paracord is wrapped evenly all the way looks nice as well keep pulling back and forth now that knot is nice and tight down on the other handle this gives you a little bit of a tail usually what I'll do is put about one or two more overhand knots in that tail it could also actually I'll show we can also move this knot down to the end and if you needed it to work this way you can move that all the way to the end and then it would give you you know put that through your hand if you need it to one way or not that you can't hold on give you some more grip but the tail is there I'd like having a little bit of an extra tail and to make sure I had plenty once I got the handle all the way down so there's your handle wrap like I said that gives you the most thickness here out of the different wraps that I've kind of come up with that's why I use this one specifically nice and gives you a good hearty handle to hold on to see if we get a template in here as well this is my template for my sheath actually it's perfectly on there so I'll use that for the full piece for the back and then I just need a piece that's big enough for the front so these two different pieces of leather but I get a little cool it's a small sheath so you kind of use the scraps that you have around two pieces for the sheath front the back and then I'll cut a welt as well to go in and that'll protect the stitching from the blade when you put the knife in and out of the sheath let's take a straight edge and just straight line make sure you're doing your marks on the inside so that's usually on the rough side depending on what you're doing theirs will be tucked inside your sheath so you don't have to worry about the marks being visible start with a light pass to give yourself that line all your line and gently go back into that line and your blade will follow it so second pass a little harder there we go that's all fit down in this play it will be able to fit once we get it in a little fit all the way down and nice and deep this will come up and then cut the welt so that's gonna be the same shape so we'll make sure we know where the top of that is and I will just go ahead and spin this around move it over about that's about a quarter of an inch for thee that you just use some rubber cement go down both sides I like to make sure I apply the glue to both sides so for a piece of leather so I'll put it in the bottom piece first then I'll do the well all right so go ahead and get this on let's make sure you're lined up I just use a couple binder clips put those right on the welds give it about 10 or 15 minutes to kind of cure just a little bit and then we'll go ahead and mark the holes punch him and and we'll sew it all together I mark my first holes on both sides forgive me a starting point and an ending point you know have my my groove cutter just receiving Astro following down swing this around one pass the other side you had marked these by hand if you do about 3/16 or so a little bit less than a quarter away from each other all right so nice clean holes on the front and they see even on the back as well so I'm gonna go ahead and use artificial sinew into a saddle stitch if you want to see a little bit more in-depth on how to make a sheath I did a knife sheath video as well I'll put a link to that video in the description below so you can go there and check it out and then I use a lighter to burn those ends down secure to the edge brown the second one again just to close your legs I want to bring your weather you know about three feet or so for the lanyard this way it'll give you plenty of room I have the sheet hanging however high you want it and then you can just make the adjustments in the back so we'll just make sure both sides are even little tight and just put a knot and again this is where you can adjust it to the height that you prefer you use a little bit of neat's-foot oil now to finish the sheath with at the same time I'll use the wetness of the oil to burnish the edges all right we're gonna go ahead and sharpen it up I'm gonna use progressively smoother sandpaper so I'm gonna start out with 360 move to 600 and then a thousand alright guys so we're all done we finished up all sharpened up so I grabbed a maple branch from outside we'll go ahead and give it a test run so it's nice and sharp cutting through really smoothly it's a good size it's not too big just fits really nicely in the hand not too heavy put in the sheath should just slide in and because it's little wraps there it fits nice and tight inside the sheath and won't fall out and hangs nice around here around your neck not too heavy works really well feels really good so I really appreciate you guys for watching if you liked the video go ahead and give us a thumbs up and if you want to see more hit the subscribe button also we just signed up for Instagram so go ahead and follow us at the art of craftsmanship if you're interested and we'll see you guys in the next video thanks for watching you

Channel: The Art of Craftsmanship

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Keywords: survival neck knife, neck knife, how to make a neck knife, making a neck knife, make your own neck knife, circular saw blade knife, making a circular blade knife

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Length: 38min 31sec (2311 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 13 2017