Forging A Kukri Knife From An Old Rusty Tool - Blacksmithing:

In this video, I'm gonna show you how to make a kukri knife from an old rusty tool.
I found this old, rusty, dull, useless billhook in the shop. I believe my grandmother was using it to cut stuff in her garden a few decades ago. But I have no use for it, and I wanted to turn it into something I like, something I'll keep, and something that reminds me of her. So I decided to reforge it into a Kukri knife.

After annealing the blade, I reforge it to straighten it and give it the rough shape of a Kukri. Then I ground it to shape, normalised it (off camera), quenched it in oil and tempered it. When the blade was cleaned, I used Wenge to make the handle and shaped it with my belt grinder. A little bit of two part epoxy, three brass pins and some boiled linseed oil and it was all ready to use. I really like how this knife turned out, and knowing it is now a utility knife as well as a tool, coming from a tool my grandmother used for years just makes me happy.

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