So I wanted to expand my fusion 360 skills and aluminum machining expertise. I do some stage fighting and I thought a stage fighting knife would be cool to make.
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Made a fusion 360 cad model and rendered a test to see how it would look. I used a custom environment to place the background. I started with machining and place the aluminum stock in a pocket in an extra sacrificial layer on top of the normal one.
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The to extra holes are there because this was a scrap piece of aluminium they had laying a round at the makerspace bitraf where I made it.
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The reason it is in a pocket is the same reason that there are plastic plugs in the aluminum stock. To make sure that the position is a exactly known so that it can be milled on both sides.
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I used tabs to make sure that the knife could be milled on both sides.
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The finished blade without any finishing. I finished it on a circular sander and a sander sponge.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6308711556191246099.jpg)
Making the handles where very straight forwards.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/5453121556191326382.jpg)
After some sanding this was the finished result. Not exactly a museum piece but it serves it's purpose. I found out a lot about how I could make it better and planing to maybe make another one.
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