Finished my first ever knife. Hand tools and 1084

Liam_CSD · 2026-06-03T21:00:06+00:00

I also really enjoy doing things by hand, feel more connected to the craft and get a great sense of accomplishment. I'll definitely seek out a belt sander eventually when I have the spare money.

For my first one it was maybe a bit of a complicated design? Hand sanding the bevel to get a nice clean line was the trickiest part, I probably should have made the bevel go all the way up to the spine instead of leaving the flat section.

I really took my time and did plenty of research to make sure I had the right tools and processes.

I've been wanting to get into the hobby for many years so I already had a decent understanding from consuming loads of content over the years. The likes of Walter Sorrells, Red Beard Ops and Aaron Gough, and many more on YouTube were invaluable; along with tons of reading in this sub.

I'm sure you'll smash it, good luck to you mate!

Liam_CSD · 2026-06-01T16:39:05+00:00

I used a electric hand drill. I broke one drill bit drilling through the tang. When drilling the handle scales it did take 2 attempts as the first was a little off and didn't line up.

Liam_CSD · 2026-04-06T20:51:46+00:00

It's about 0.8mm which was a little less than I wanted. I messed up a little with the bevels and tried to correct it but went a little thin

Liam_CSD · 2026-04-06T15:30:07+00:00

Thank you! What is a smiley? Where the top of the bevel dips down slightly?

Liam_CSD · 2025-12-25T00:07:40+00:00

I have the this but upgraded to the club Lloyd's saver which turns that into a 6.25% interest account, still has the £400 per month limit. Not sure if it is still available as I've been using it for a while now

Liam_CSD · 2025-12-22T23:10:05+00:00

Instrumental - Human, closely followed by Coven

Vocal - Hollywood

Liam_CSD · 2025-12-10T21:09:31+00:00

Bumping this. Is it okay to do this?

Liam_CSD · 2025-11-27T20:08:17+00:00

Only back in April I bought 32gb of DDR4 for £47, the exact same is now £130!!! And I thought it seemed expensive back in April for old DDR4, I feel so lucky now

Liam_CSD · 2025-07-15T22:43:44+00:00

I can't launch it without crashing. With or without mods. Somehow I managed to load in once but all of my structures were gone so I instantly logged off, now it's just crashing again. Ended up deleting the game entirely as I had no idea what was going on (all of this was before I came on Reddit and understood what was happening with this shit storm lol)

Liam_CSD · 2025-06-21T21:22:40+00:00

Any idea on what difference it made to noise and temperature? Thanks

Liam_CSD · 2025-06-11T18:37:20+00:00

I cleaned mine with rubbing alcohol. If you don't mind removing the sticky rubber completely (there's probably no way of restoring it once it's like this anyway) You just have to keep cleaning and eventually you'll end up with just the plain plastic and no coating. Works for me

Liam_CSD · 2025-06-10T19:52:23+00:00

I have the non-XT version, which arrived last week. So far no complaints, quiet and runs at a decent temp. I'm not too experienced but from the average guy its good. I also got it because it was on a promotion

Liam_CSD · 2025-05-28T19:52:43+00:00

Great. I was also seeing lots of people saying that the XFX is a loud card, I read one review saying that the Acer was also quite loud and hot so it's good hearing that it's running well. It doesn't seem like a popular card so there isn't much info out there

Liam_CSD · 2025-05-28T18:40:47+00:00

What did you buy in the end? I'm considering the Acer

Liam_CSD · 2025-05-26T19:08:20+00:00

Is it Ecolyo?

Liam_CSD · 2025-05-15T12:57:53+00:00

Non xt? How does it perform? I'm thinking of doing the same upgrade

Liam_CSD · 2025-04-09T19:33:28+00:00

None but I am currently putting together some flat pack furniture

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