How to make a 6 cent Pocket Knife

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Here's what you need:
-Nickle
-Pennie
-Hammer
-Vice
-Hack Saw
-Grinder/Polisher
-(Optional) Cold Metal Blueing Agent

Now lets get started

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IT'S LEGAL! U.S. Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331: Prohibits among other things, fraudulent alteration and mutilation of coins. This statue does not, however, prohibit the mutilation of coins if done without fraudulent intent if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently.

Step 1: Hammering and Cutting the Nickle

In step we will hammer and cut the nickle.

As you will see in the first picture, I simply just hammered one side of the nickle. This gives you a longer blade.

Then we start cutting. Get your pen and draw out your pattern, it should look something like the second picture below. Now take out your hack saw and start cutting, a few drops of oil can make the cutting process much easier. Be careful not to make the little bar hanging off of the nickle too thin, its what we are going to wrap the penny around, and we want it as strong as possible.

Once you get your nickle cut out, click on the next step to learn how to put the penny on it.

Comments

[I died with my head in a washing machine]

its not even a knife its a sharp sort of round thing

[x3n0c1dal]

If you think about it, that's what a knife is, more or less.

[seabee890]

actually that looks about the right size for a mouse slasher movie.. or mabye to skin a hamster with.

[safety dance]

YYAAYYYY A NEW PRISON SHANK!! =P

[wolf996]

Remind Me To Never Ever Go To Prison With You. Or We Could Shank Random People.

[funtickets]

Your name is prolly going to be on a list at a Fusion Center. If you don't know what a Fusion Center is just ask Jesse Ventura.

[(YOUR N]

KOOL

[s0nicthewerehog]

plz tel me how did u sarpen the knife

[mykmykmykkk]

cool, but is it sharp?

[cdawg14]

That depends on how well you sharpen it.

[punkhead58]

Actually, it depends on the hardness of the blade. In this case, since the blade is composed of copper and nickel, I doubt that it will hold an edge.

[seabee890]

You, have caused my mind to start winding up.... the change jar will be ruined..  hehe, i was just thinking how about a "silver"dollar coin for the blade and a mexican 100peso coin for the handle, that would give you a bigger knife. I am also trying to remember if you can you some flux and silver solder to fold your nickel in half and draw it out to make a longer blade. cool instructable though. enjoyable

[masterofallgeeks]

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[JamesRPatrick]

Welcome to Instructables! Remember the "be nice" policy and if you're going to insult a country, at lest use good grammar.

[i like mayo]

how the f*** are you.

[Pumpkin$]

lol

[JamesRPatrick]

least

[masterofallgeeks]

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[PyroManiac96]

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[Pumpkin$]

hmmmmm..... that's weird because it's comments like this that make people less likely to even care or notice :D and if a person named PyroManiac96 is going to diss me about being a proud american who was indeed born on the fourth of july he should at least realise that there is a flag option and I find you rather myself threatened as a patriotic citizen of the United States of America

[absolute zero]

dag gommit, i was supposed to born on the fourth. two days late.

[PyroManiac96]

i was actually talking to "masterofallgeeks"... akward

[JamesRPatrick]

Yeah...that was confusing me for a while.

[Pumpkin$]

reply to me? I'm american, I was born on the fourth of july, there's an american flag in my room.... need I go on?

[Pumpkin$]

within the contiguous united states of north america :D

^{(I'm a little secretive)}

[Doctor What]

What did Canada ever do to you! *sobs*

[JamesRPatrick]

Don't go there.

[Doctor What]

Where?

[Greywyn]

Canada, It's not a fun place ;)

[JamesRPatrick]

I'm American as well. I'm only bagging on you because you're making America look bad.

[Pumpkin$]

? least offensive?

[JamesRPatrick]

"at lest use good grammar."

[handidad]

About the penny pressing machines: this summer while in Quebec City I stopped by one machine that said to not use Canadian pennies. The notice said that there were American pennies available at the desk. There are some machines that how supply brass blanks automatically.

[bmlbytes]

I saw the same thing while we were visiting Canada. The reason for this, I believe, is that American coins are made of a different material than Canadian coins. If you ever hold a Canadian coin and an American coin, you will notice that the Canadian coin is much lighter (quarters are the easiest to tell the difference). On our way back to the USA, we saw one of those machines that supply the brass automatically, only the "blanks" were a bunch of US pennies.

[klingonprins]

canadian coins are iron with copper finish. they will respond to magnets. this is another sign of proof that the gov't is wasting all of out $ on purpose. did you know that a penny is worth 18cents when melted down? ouch

[zazukain]

Not anymore, pennies after about 1970 have a copper finish.

[klingonprins]

yeah, i meant that...
no i meant really the amount of copper in the shape and size of a penny would be.

[handidad]

Your comment is only partly true. I dug out a handful of change, all Canadaian.. Althoug they are mgnetic, I doubt if the copper is simply a finish, more likely an alloy of some sort. 4 pennies: 2007, 2005, 1977, all non-magneric. Only the 2008 was magnetic. The nickels, dimes quarters, loonies, and the outside part of the toonie were all magnetic. Probably 50 year old coins would have a different composition.

[jeffconnelly]

yeah, I found pretty much the same thing, but my 2005's were also magnetic

[Father Christmas]

the best way to tell for that is put em near a magnet, Canadian coins(the silver ones) are magnetically responsive.