I believe that you can harden the edge by hammering it.
It might take a better edge after that.
Sandwich_Hands
Copper is pretty soft, and it won’t really take or keep an edge as well as a steel blade. You can try putting it against sharpening stones, but it might just be as good as it’s going to get
No_Wasabi4828
File it on the prison floor?
FullFrontalNoodly
Copper and bronze blades are sharpened by peening. There are some videos on youtube but search is being particularly unhelpful at the moment.
What prison you locked up in and how did you get a phone ?
Quiet-Try4554
I love this knife, great job OP. Looks like something I’d of made many years ago. It’s got character and if the blade doesn’t get you the tetanus will
_yomomz
Okay so you’re gonna need 2-50.000 grit stones, preferably on a 500$ fixed angle system and six strops but you might get by with two.
42AngryPandas
I would start by entering the bronze age
ReverseDiode
Dude got a shank
HopSkipATheChewtoys
Whoa, that really does look like a prison shank tho. Definitely badass
Xer0cool
Your gonna shoot your eye out.
ozzy_thedog
Don’t bring it to school kid
EcoMyInk
This is how it begins. I think yall created a monster.
Lovelyleadmagnet
Sneak it into the prison workshop and file it on the license plate stamping machine
bootaka
File to to a nice point and Knapp yourself a stone knife. That thing would make a nice pressure flaker.
rockhounded5221
Stab a potato
GearhedMG
Alternative title: My Shiv, how would I make it sharper. I think it is made out of copper, I pulled it out of some guys gut.
Emotional_Document11
That will get you 30 days in the hole convict.
Sabisgovsky
Inmate with wifi????
Haunting_Jicama8422
That’s a shank that’s not a knife
thetieflingalchemist
Take a small hammer and carfully beet a thin edge this will make it thinner and work harden it if you have an anvil or vice with one use that if not find a large flat rock
ajharley
What cell block are you in ?
professional_catboy
bro where tf are you terraria?? copper starting blade headass 😭😭😭
Lizard_Wizard_d
Now that’s some bronze age shit right there!
Professional-Dot7021
Toe knife. As you pick out the dirt and sand that gets stuck under your toe nails it will sharpen the knife.
Red_Clay_Scholar
Rub Wif A Rok
Topher587
This knife looks like a child’s drawing of a knife.
You may not be getting any helpful answers here because it’s unclear if you’re serious on trying to improve this particular knife. Sharpening involves removing material at an edge to create a beveled wedge shape. There doesn’t look to be much blade left to remove. Your lack of awareness of the materials makes it hard to give real advice. Copper is a very soft metal and if this knife is made of copper it should not hold any edge well and should be replaced with any knife purchased at a gas station for a more useful tool.
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I believe that you can harden the edge by hammering it.
It might take a better edge after that.
Copper is pretty soft, and it won’t really take or keep an edge as well as a steel blade. You can try putting it against sharpening stones, but it might just be as good as it’s going to get
File it on the prison floor?
Copper and bronze blades are sharpened by peening. There are some videos on youtube but search is being particularly unhelpful at the moment.
Here is an example of the process on a scythe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pih3LxPmYcY
2 questions, you only gotta answer 1:
1. How old are you?
2. Are you in prison?
What prison you locked up in and how did you get a phone ?
I love this knife, great job OP. Looks like something I’d of made many years ago. It’s got character and if the blade doesn’t get you the tetanus will
Okay so you’re gonna need 2-50.000 grit stones, preferably on a 500$ fixed angle system and six strops but you might get by with two.
I would start by entering the bronze age
Dude got a shank
Whoa, that really does look like a prison shank tho. Definitely badass
Your gonna shoot your eye out.
Don’t bring it to school kid
This is how it begins. I think yall created a monster.
Sneak it into the prison workshop and file it on the license plate stamping machine
File to to a nice point and Knapp yourself a stone knife. That thing would make a nice pressure flaker.
Stab a potato
Alternative title: My Shiv, how would I make it sharper. I think it is made out of copper, I pulled it out of some guys gut.
That will get you 30 days in the hole convict.
Inmate with wifi????
That’s a shank that’s not a knife
Take a small hammer and carfully beet a thin edge this will make it thinner and work harden it if you have an anvil or vice with one use that if not find a large flat rock
What cell block are you in ?
bro where tf are you terraria?? copper starting blade headass 😭😭😭
Now that’s some bronze age shit right there!
Toe knife. As you pick out the dirt and sand that gets stuck under your toe nails it will sharpen the knife.
Rub Wif A Rok
This knife looks like a child’s drawing of a knife.
You may not be getting any helpful answers here because it’s unclear if you’re serious on trying to improve this particular knife. Sharpening involves removing material at an edge to create a beveled wedge shape. There doesn’t look to be much blade left to remove. Your lack of awareness of the materials makes it hard to give real advice. Copper is a very soft metal and if this knife is made of copper it should not hold any edge well and should be replaced with any knife purchased at a gas station for a more useful tool.
Damn, that’s a woefully incompetent knife.