Hello everyone,
I'm new to this community, got a suggestion to cross-post this from !imadethis@lemmy.zip , hope you appreciate my rough looking knife :)
For making sandwiches on the job because I don't like spreading stuff with a sharp pointy knife or a box cutter.
I made the handle with a piece of L shaped aluminum profile crudely bent using clamps.
I then pierced a hole through the blade and the handle and test fitted it. I didn't like how it looked when closed so I decided to drill a new hole after flipping the handle around. (Hence the hole at the end of the handle and the second hole on the blade).
I then riveted everything together twice (one smaller rivet inside a bigger one, no idea if thats a good idea or not but it looks better). Cut the handle to shape with an angle grinder and softened the edges with a file then different grits of sandpaper.
I got the idea for the handle from the Higonokami.
Thanks for reading, let me know if you have adidas for the next version!
29 Comments
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 263d
This is the best thing I've seen all week.
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 263d
High praise coming from you!
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 263d
so it must be true then: you only own and use the shittiest knifes little money can buy
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 263d
I don't know about that, but maybe OP could be well on their way to getting a new job at Svörd.
stellar_jay@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 263d
"Rough looking knife"?
Looks pretty sleek to me, a person who's never made something like this ever before in their life (: Great job!
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 263d
Haha I guess I should cut myself some slack, but I know I could give it some more love and make it look finer :)
Thanks!
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
No wait, I thought it was a butter knife
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 263d
Useful and beautiful!
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 262d
You all know you want this.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 263d
Watch out! It’s got a mildly-serrated edge!
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 263d
Op really took better pics, like we deserve only the best :).
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 263d
Oh hey it's you! Haha yeah, well after seeing the level set by dual_sport_dork in this community I had to at least get you a whiteish background and some more light :)
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 262d
Well, you certainly delivered, gg!
(And a proper, detailed description too.)
So when next knife?
A BBK (butterfly butter knife)?
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 262d
Thanks!
A BBK would be awesome.
While writing this answer about how it would be so much more difficult to build and it would probably stay a dream, I remembered I have an old butterfly comb that is terrible as a comb (it's metal and the teeth just rip your hair off).
But I might just be able to use the handle parts and hopefully find an effective way to attach the blade! Don't hold your breath though... I've been thinking about this folding butter knife for more than a year before finally getting to it. And I don't know where that comb is.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 262d
Just glue the pocket knife to the butterfly comb to produce a pretty fly butter butterfly pocket not-comb knife.Well, you seem to like to do things proper so we await your next masterpiece Christmas 2026.
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 262d
Well... You guys gave me the motivation and I found the comb. It is done :) will make a post for it later
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 262d
It's not even Christmas 2025 & we already get a butt-butt(-flyer) knife? It's a miracle!!
Ok, daily new knives from now on fully expected.
(Butter battleaxes allowed too.)
Bhaelfur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 263d
For the busy Hobbit who takes second breakfast on the go!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 263d
Hahah, I love it.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 263d
Do you have a dedicated pouch or something to keep it in? Matching fork and spoon next? Looks good, nice job.
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 263d
I might go for a pouch that's a good idea!
Never been a fan of folding forks and spoons... But if I get a good idea for them why not :)
valkyre09@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 263d
You could do the fork and spoon in the same handle, Swiss army style!
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 263d
If you had another piece of alu, you could think of pushing the pivot point back into the handle a bit to hide the tang when folded.
Love a good useful knife!
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 262d
I could but if I understand what you're saying correctly, it would also hide more of the blade.
And I'd rather keep it as long as possible to avoid food getting up in there :)
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 261d
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 261d
Oh yeah I like that!
I might give it a go
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 262d
I use my fixed blade car knife to make peanut butter cracker sandwiches and yes, I regret having the handle wrapped in para cord right up to the tang when I bought it. Para cord plus peanut butter and crumbs. Just imagine. I shan't post a pic, because a Buck doesn't deserve to be shamed that way.
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 261d
cetan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 261d
This is really great! A little ingenuity and a solution is born. Thank you for sharing.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
I want a butterbuterfly knive