Spyderco Navaja Review!

The Spyderco Navaja is a large knife made out of S30V. This Taichung-produced knife is unique for it's "carracca" mechanism, which makes a clicky noise as the knife is open. The knife, designed by Ed Schempp, is a modern interpretation of a traditional spanish knife. More after the jump! 

How to Make a Knife

Here's a few write-ups I did awhile back on knifemaking. The first one is on how to make a fixed blade knife out of 1084 steel - included heat treating. The second one is on how to make a liner lock knife and focuses more on designing and fitting a folding knife.

Here's the one to the fixed blade knife: http://www.instructables.com/id/Knife-Making/

And the one for the liner lock: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-liner-lock-folding-knife/

Goodluck and let me know if you need help on cutting the blanks, filing bevels, heat treating or quenching 1084 steel, filing lock faces, pinning the knife, or more!

The Damascus Spydercos

The college I'm attending only allows knives under 3". As such, I've been shifting my collection towards smaller, classier knives and I think these two spydercos fit that goal. The Spyderco Caly 3, Carbon Fiber scales and Damascus blade, as well as the Spyderco Delica 4, Titanium scales and Damascus blade.

More after the jump.

Kydex Wave!

I waved my Spyderco Merlin! Opens up faster than any other knife system, and easily done to a Spyderco! 

I used a spare piece of Kydex for the wave. In case you don't know what a wave is:

Knifemaking!

So, for those of who don't know, I'm also a novice knifemaker. And by that, I mean I fiddle around and do stuff with knives. I'm not good at it, and I'm much too impatient to get a good finish, but I'm proud that my knives lock up with zero blade play- pretty hard given the tools I use. I use no electrical tools except for a hand held drill. So the amount of precision I'm getting is very debatable. But it works out. Here's what I've done so far, in order: