How To Make Carving Knife
How to make your favorite carving knife.
How to make carving knife. A 2-hour session covering a variety of safe knife grips and traditional techniques in the ancient skill of knife carving. Using an old one is fine as long as it hasnt been bent or overheated which often happens. Making a wood carving knife is a multi step process consisting of choosing and preparing the metal to become a wood carving knife blade blank annealing removing fire scale shaping the blank hardening tempering sharpening making the handle and attaching the wood carving knife blade to the handle.
It is very important to keep the tang straight so it enters the handle easily. The handles tend to fall between 4 and 5 inches. The tang is ground to a maximum thickness of 14.
After you will need to use a 325-400 grit whetstone to smooth the rough surface and a 1000 grit whetstone to sharpen the razor. If you dont have a froe use a big knife or a ax to split the wood. Use the crude knife on a branch to make a crude shaft iirc.
I think is a great wood for knife handles. I lay the blade on a flat surface and use the point of the drill bit to mark the center lines. You can also smelt the Iron Rocks to get low ql low weight lumps.
I decided to experiment with the technique of laminating steel often referred to as san maiCheck out my recom. 2 Wrap 3 layers of tape around the blade part of your knife. To make a knife out of a straight razor you need to shape the steel of the razor to a smaller and more convenient size by breaking the sharp edge down.
I used a Sharpie marker to paint the blade edge and used a drill bit that is the same thickness as the steel to scribe a line down the middle of the edge. In this video I make a small carving knife. You can buy knife kits online that contain just the full-tang blade and pins.
