multiblade for my swivel knife

[MHolzer]

Here is the one my dad (whinewine) made. sorry it took so long for me to post pics.

[King's X]

I see a business starting here..............whinewhine!!

[rickmc]

Instead of doing leather last night (like I should have), I made one out of a piece of tack hammer handle that I had lying around. I epoxied 7 #11 Xacto blades together & inset them into the handle. The hardest part was getting the tips lined up & even while the epoxy dried.

thanks for all your help, whinewine, I really appreciate your suggestions and know that you sacrificed precious time to help, as all of you have.

I tried this and here is my first attempt, I took a piece of black walnut, turned it on my lathe and drilled the hole in the end, unfortunately, I did not have the right bit, so it took 15 blades to fill in the hole that I made, I used exacto #16 blades. I used JB Weld to hold them in, and yes it was difficult to have all of the align perfectly. I actually used a pencil underneath the curve on the blade to align them and held the handle down with a small c-clap until it dried. Please tell me what you think.

Edited May 10, 2009 by rickmc

[rickmc]

Rick, heres one i madeout of a old xacto knife and some #11 blades. i tryed more blades but i find i have more control on smaller stuff with less blades..

Hiloboy,

did you have to modify the handle or could it hold the 4 blades?

Rickmc

[hiloboy]

Hiloboy,

did you have to modify the handle or could it hold the 4 blades?

Rickmc

Rick, i had to cut the ring that tightens the blades in half.. then i filed the part that holds the blades. i have one handle that will hold 6 to 8 blades ..i don't use it that much i work on a lot more smaller stuff.the thing you would have to do is cut the ring smaller the more blades you use.. the good thing is when you need to change blades its like changing one blade.. put in how many you want and tighten the handle down... no gluing blades together.. this is just what i do.. i like some of the other ideas i see here to..and they look a lot more pretty than what i use.. but what ever work for you..

[whinewine]

thanks for all your help, whinewine, I really appreciate your suggestions and know that you sacrificed precious time to help, as all of you have.

I tried this and here is my first attempt, I took a piece of black walnut, turned it on my lathe and drilled the hole in the end, unfortunately, I did not have the right bit, so it took 15 blades to fill in the hole that I made, I used exacto #16 blades. I used JB Weld to hold them in, and yes it was difficult to have all of the align perfectly. I actually used a pencil underneath the curve on the blade to align them and held the handle down with a small c-clap until it dried. Please tell me what you think.

Rick:

It looks very nice. Good job! I like it. (At some point, I'd like to get a small lathe for myself, but I just can't justify one at this time.)

[Rawhide]

Russ/Rickmc

How do you sharpen/strop the blades or even replace them? I would think you'd want to do that at some point.

Edited May 10, 2009 by Rawhide

[whinewine]

Russ/Rickmc

How do you sharpen/strop the blades or even replace them? I would think you'd want to do that at some point.

Marlon:

I don't think they would be sharpened, just like the basic standard hairblades that fit into a swivel knife can't be sharpened or stropped easily. They are applied with a very light touch, just enough to make hair or feather impressions/cuts in the leather & as a result would last for a very long time, unlike a regular swivel knife blade or xacto blade, which is meant to cut deeply into the leather. Also because the area covered by a group of blades together is much greater than a single blade, any force is spread out over that area rather than concentrated into a single point. You are essentially using the tips, rather than the whole blade, to scribe, rather than deeply cut lines in the leather. The only one of the Hidecrafter ones I had ever seen mounted in a swivel knife came in a protective case, so I guess the answer is to make a sheath of sorts to protect the tips (makes sense, also- you don't want this thing rolling around loose somewhere where it could hurt you more than you can hurt it.).

russ

If you need to replace it, I guess you make another, or you force-fit into the handle rather than use epoxy to mount the blade pack. Or, you could follow Hiloboy's model & use a spare exacto handle.

Actually, I did use an extra xacto handle (medium) to mount 2 swivel knife hairblades (1 coarse, 1 fine lined) in imitation of tandy's double hairblade tool- I simply drilled out the solid end to the right depth & used a thin piece of leather as a force-fit collar around each blade shaft.

[rickmc]

so I guess the answer is to make a sheath of sorts to protect the tips (makes sense, also- you don't want this thing rolling around loose somewhere where it could hurt you more than you can hurt it.).

russ

If you need to replace it, I guess you make another, or you force-fit into the handle rather than use epoxy to mount the blade pack.

Here is the sheath that I am using, and oh by the way, FORCE FIT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA LOOK AT THE SECOND PICTURE

[Suze]

http://www.quiltingstencils.com/index.asp?...amp;ProdID=6351

I have one of these here "somewhere" all it is is an exacto knife (sort of) with the slot already spaced for two blades and a spacer

If you don't put the spacer in and put a couple more blades in instead.....