How To Make A Kukri Knife From An Old Rusty Tool - Blacksmithing

This week, I decided to make a Kukri Knife From An Old Rusty Tool. I know some of you don't want to see old tools being destroyed, but I prefere to reforge this tool and give it another life rather than letting it rust in the shed and never use it again.

I found this old, rusty, dull, useless billhook in the shop. I believe my grandmother was using it to cut stuff in her garden a few decades ago. But I have no use for it, and I wanted to turn it into something I like, something I'll keep, and something that reminds me of her. So I decided to reforge it into a Kukri knife.

After annealing the blade, I reforge it to straighten it and give it the rough shape of a Kukri. Then I ground it to shape, normalised it (off camera), quenched it in oil and tempered it. When the blade was cleaned, I used Wenge to make the handle and shaped it with my belt grinder. A little bit of two part epoxy, three brass pins and some boiled linseed oil and it was all ready to use. I really like how this knife turned out, and knowing it is now a utility knife as well as a tool, coming from a tool my grandmother used for years just makes me happy.

As always, thank you for watching, be good, be safe, keep making, and see you in the next one!

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[CraftsWithEllen]

That's a cool sharpening setup you have! And a beautiful way to put your grandmother's blade to new use 😍

[SylviePereiraSyPer]

Le manche est vraiment magnifique. Le métal qui dépasse, la forme, le bois : il est top.
Bravo !

[danthemakerman]

Nice work man! That Wenge and brass look really good together.

[scoobshagg]

Well done Red, a great reforging of a billhook. The grain on the handle looks great. Happy forging

[GrahamDallas]

That is simply beautiful, great project and a great re-use of an otherwise worthless billhook.

[JohnMadeit]

Complete transformation. Nice work Red

[jrand]

Beautiful work! What a great Kukri. 👍👍👍

[BeInspiredwithDominic]

Awesome work, thanks for sharing, Red!

[davebauerart]

Great transformation! I really like the shape and color of the handle.

[vdz]

Great build, really enjoyed watching it! 👍👍

[Everythings_Adjustable]

Good to see you Red, Great work making the Kukri 🔪 👍 😊

[randyrodriguez]

Well that came out just as beautiful as could be! Next video, a custom leather sheath for it? :)

[garagemonkeysan]

Great video. Beautiful knife. Mahalo for sharing!🙂🐒

[EdBrentnall]

Another great build, Red! I really like the shape of the Kukri and making your own is very cool. I think the donor blade was a bill hook. You'll be so ready for the zombie apocalypse! 😁

[douglasfathers]

I was expecting a restoration but what you did with it is amazing. Very enjoyable to watch Red . may be I can try remaking some of the old tools I have . Cheers . :)

[chybz]

Super nice video Red bro, really like the handle. Nice toothpick !

[Eleyone]

Great work to reforge these old rusty Opinel knife :) Next step will be a nice new leather knife sheath to go along ? ;) See ya !

[ianmurrell]

It is (was) a billhook, used for removing tree branches. Great re-purposing.

[garoudiaz]

That was a billhook brand opinel like the pocket knifes?