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Butterfly Butter Knife (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by MacAnus@sh.itjust.works to c/imadethis@lemmy.zip

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You asked for it, here it is!

All your nice words about my last experiment gave me the drive to get it done, thank you all for that!

I knew I had a "butterfly comb" laying around somewhere. I cut off the comb part of it with an angle grinder and then cut the knife blade to the right size. I did not remove the handles though and that ended up biting me in the ass...

Using a magnet, I positioned the blade against and in line with the stub left from the comb and proceeded to stick weld them together. I was dreading that moment as I'm not good with welding and even worse when it comes to thin-ish material, but it went pretty smoothly and I'm happy how it turned out!

I then went on to grinding. I tried removing the handles but only one came off, the heat from the welding must have something to do with that...