Hello, in this project I show you how to make

my Drawknife.

First of all, I apologize for my lack of words, I still have to learn a lot. My mother tongue is not English and I am still learning. Thanks to all of you who are correcting me and helping me to learn. If you see any error, do not hesitate to correct me.

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Ø How I did my Drawknife and my tools:

• Radial

• Column drill

• Belt sander

• My forge (you can see how I made it on my channel)

• Oven in my house

• Lima

• Coarse grain stone

• Grain stone 3000 and 8000

Material

• D2 steel 500 x 30 x 6 mm

Chemical composition: C (1.55) Mn (0.40) Si (0.40) Cr (12) Mo (0.75) V (0.75)

Step 1:  Design:

Let´s go. The first thing I did was draw my

Drawknife, I gave the sheet 200mm with a curve of 16mm in diameter and I finished the shape making a diagonal up to 8mm from the end.

Step 2:  Cut:

I made the drilling with the 16mm column drill

and then I finished the cuts with the radial. I am boring with the drill to save cutting time with the radial and discs.

Roughing:

Marking a line parallel to the edge that will be the edge of 15mm, I start roughing with my belt sander with a grain of 36 sandpaper, to take the desired shape and finish smoothing the bottom with the same sandpaper.

Step 3: Roughing:

Marking a line parallel to the edge that will

be the edge of 15mm, I start roughing with my belt sander with a grain of 36 sandpaper, to take the desired shape and finish smoothing the bottom with the same sandpaper.

Step 4:  the Shape of the Handles:

I turn the forge and heat red hot the widest

part of the handles, with the help of a tool that I have manufactured with an angle of iron of 40 x 40 mm and some support screws where I wanted it to bend, help me with a steel bar, to pry and get the two sides equal.

In this part of the project is where I am experimenting more, due to I am not an expert in the forge, I must say that everything is done with the videos and things I can read I read.

If there is something wrong, please, do not hesitate to tell me, I would like to learn from my mistakes.

Step 5:  Heat Treatment:

Normalized steel, putting it red-hot and letting cool one hour by itself.

The tempered I put it to the alive red also until it loses the polarity, that I check with a magnet and I maintain it a minute more inside the forge, cooling it with oil.

Annealing I have one hour at 200 degrees, 10 minutes for each millimeter of thickness.

Step 6:  Handles:

For the Handles, I use a piece of olive tree,

with stainless steel rings. It is the first time I use the lathe, I am not very loose the subject of the rings, weighed that they would adjust when putting the tool, but it was not to I shave the handle and I have to do it again.

Then I made a 6mm hole in the part of the steel ring and finished it with a pair of hands of flaxseed oil