Well it's hot, it's humid, and it's a good time to make a knife!
I don't do metal work-it's enough for me to just to master one kind of material. But my family are all metal workers and as they are relatives, I thought it time to invite them into the wood shop to make something.
My youngest son Critter, whom you'll remember from previous postings, is a welder and a metal worker and he wants to get into knife making, which is a challenge in a turning shop. But I do have a vice, lots of files, and other assorted stuff so he's begun making a camp knife for himself from a stainless steel billet.
He started with cutting out a knife blank yesterday (sorry, no photos) and today he is filing a bevel onto the edge of it. Here are a couple of photos:
The bevel on the knife needs to be the same angle relative to the flat surface of the blank and I wasn't sure how he would accomplish that. He came up with this contraption which utilizes one of my wood files to cut the bevel with. With this he was able to maintain a consistent angle all along the edge (if you click on the photo, you'll be able to enlarge the image):
This is how it's used:
And this is what it looked like an hour ago:
The blade needs a lot of work and he's going to be working on this all week long. And he's asked me to make a handle for him so it's off to find some nifty looking wood for this.
And while he was sweating away with knife making, I worked on a spoon:
Stay tuned,
VW
