Making a knife or knives from Volvo parts

[SonicAdventure]

Many years ago, I started the hobby of making knives. I’ve made hunting knives, pen knives, etc.

I have a plan to make a knife or a couple of knives completely from recycled Volvo parts.

I would like to make the blade from front strut springs, or possibly engine components such as piston valves, or any other suitable steel from the engine such as cranksshafts or camshafts. Obviously, I won’t be disassembling my own motor to get these parts, so they will most like be pulled from the junk yard, lol.

I would plan make any non steel hardware such as the guard or pommel from recycled aluminum (my old rear wiper assembly could be melted down and cast into various items), and finally making the handle in the stacked and compressed leather style (think the Marine Corp “Ka-Bar” style) from sections of my old leather upholstery. Since buying my car, I’ve replaced the driver side seat bottom leather, as well as both back seat lower sections. I carefully removed all the leather that was salvageable from the frames so needless to say I have quite a bit of old Volvo leather laying around. Depending on how big the finished knife is, I may be able to make a leather sheath from some of the seat leather.

If anyone here is interested in collaborating on this with me as far as donating parts or other resources let me know. If I get some good results with this maybe we can auction some of the knives off to support the the site? I have limited time as I work two jobs and I am a student, but the biggest help would be if someone has access to few basic shop tools such as a bench grinder or belt sander. I would probably do most of the forge work when I go to visit my parents who live on a rural property where I can fire up a forge and have access to an anvil. But I don’t have access to a work area to do a lot of the grinding work and final finishing other than my apartment which could only be used for processes not involving power tool. Thanks.

[skloon]

Strut rods are good, have made chisels out of them springs would work, don't know about axle shafts though it could be hit and miss with some of them I suspect are of low quality

[Gtin]

This is spectacular, I've always been the kind of person who likes to keep a good sharp knife in the door of every car I own incase of emergency situations, makes me feel safer knowing if something happens and I have to cut through my seat belt or god forbid somebody else's I have a tool within reach. Plus it's just nifty if I forget my pocket knife and I need one for any reason I know right where to go.

I like to match my knives to my car for my own enjoyment, had an American made buck for my domestic cars, a awesome Japanese inspired crkt obake for my rx7, and was wanting to get a nice Mora for the Volvo, but better than a sweedish knife would be one made out of a Volvo, i would love to make my own but I definitely don't have the time or skill required to bang out a spring on an anvil so I hope if this does happen I have the cash to try snagging one up for myself.