Glad it worked!
Was it worth much?
MacAnus
joined 2 years ago
Thanks! Haha I will keep you updated on new arrivals in the family :)
Good idea ^^ I may take it that way
Thanks for the tip! I was wondering how one is supposed to unscrew those and this makes a lot of sense.
I think on of the screws is warped though, I gave the headless one a slit to be able to fit a flathead screwdriver in there and it didn't help.
I hope I will remember this next time I disassemble a knife.
Thanks!
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...
Anyways, the hard part was behind me and all that was left was to grind, sand and polish it as well as my impatient self was willing to.
And there it was:
In all its splendor
The
Butter
Fly
Butter
Knife
So here it is: the BBK
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...
Anyways, the hard part was behind me and all that was left was to grind, sand and polish it as well as my impatient self was willing to.
And there it was:
In all its splendor
The
Butter
Fly
Butter
Knife
Oh yeah I like that!
I might give it a go
Well... You guys gave me the motivation and I found the comb. It is done :) will make a post for it later
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.
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 :)
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 :)
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 :)
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!
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.
If you don't know it look it up it's a pretty cool knife!
Pretty sure these are eggs... But what creatures will emerge?
Finger for scale
Outside a local school window.
I'm guessing it has to do with networking but I'm curious about why they're outside, especially as they're not that high off the ground and can easily be tampered with from the street.
Stickers on them read "ROCK" and "ROLL".
For packing joints.
I made a little baseball bat years ago for that purpose and recently had fun making more different ones for friends.
As you can see I used a piece of rebar for the bat.
I "turned" it using a drill and angle grinder then going through different grains of sanding:
The lightsaber's hilt was made the same way, using a dremel tool to get more control on the details.
The "blade" is made of Corian, a synthetic stone commonly used for countertops.
The sword required a lot more precision to make and ended up okay but looking closely nothing is really symmetrical or straight...
I grinded it from a random stick of metal, the pommel is made from aluminum and the grip is two layers of sewing thread soaked in superglue, sanded, then superglued again.
A cross-guard would have added a lot of character but I didn't find a nice and easy enough way to do it, and I was short on time...
Today I jumped back on this project that has been on pause for about a year :)
Turning cheap defective desktop speakers into a set of wireless Bluetooth stereo speakers.
Got the idea from this video from DiyPerks.
I'm trying to recycle as much as I can:
Desktop speakers were defective and given to me by family,
Bluetooth receivers are from old earbuds,
Batteries come from and old powerbank,
Charging module from old vapes (still need to figure out a few things about them, not sure I'll end up using those).
The only thing I bought so far are amps for the audio output tu the speakers.
Any input or advice is welcome :)
I'll keep you updated with more details if anyone is interested
Recently dismantled a TV and its backlighting consisted of thin cfl tubes. This gave me the material to try something I've been curious about for a while!
I sealed some yeast in a little section of tubing for a friend's birthday (his last name is Baker). Kind of a shitty gift as i doubt it would survive as a keychain but I had fun making it (and its failed predecessors).
Here are the other attempts, from left to right: pepper, red and blue food coloring, yeast 
Plug one side of the cable on the left of the box, the other side on the right, press the button and whichever light doesn't come on means that part of the cable is faulty.
I learned a lot from my bad decisions :)
I made this a few years ago and still use it regularly! The "spoon" side fills up with 1 portion of rice and the hole in the handle can fit 1 portion of spaghetti. What do you think?
Edit: sorry about the double post.. I thought I had backed out and lost the first one so I posted this one, and I just noticed the first one went up
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Where I live there are few unused radio frequencies.
And if you drive for 20 minutes to another region you'll find that whatever frequency you were on is being used...
I doubt that's a problem in the USA though.