Making wooden knife handles

Bjorn Svensson is a Norwegian hobby knifemaker who wrote this excellent article for a making wooden knife handles group in Norway. He has kindly allowed us to use it in Australia. If there are any inconsistencies or lack of clarity, this is due to the translation and not the original article. Here is the first half of Bjorn's article, about how he makes the knife handle.

What is stabilized wood, and how do you do it? It is then heated to a specific temperature until the liquid "polymerizes" or becomes solid. At this point, the wood knife handles are no longer poro us an d become impervious to the shrinking and swelling associated with changes in humidity. This is especially important for kitchen knives in a professional, wet environment. The stabilized wood knife handles won't absorb the sometimes yucky stuff it comes in contact with when working in the kitchen, or field dressing fish or game.

Making wooden knife handles

Pier 9 Starter Project Make your own Knife handle As some of you have seen, shop staff here at Pier 9's Workshop have dived deep into the exciting art of making Knives, particularly beautiful Knife handles. We have made Kitchen Blades, Hunting Knives, Fishing Knives, Retractable blades and rumor has it a mystical samurai dagger is in the works. Please remember it is important to follow all Shop rules and to treat shop staff in a respectful way. This Instructable will detail all the steps you need to follow to make your very own custom knife. Classes Required: Basic WoodShop. Necessary Materials Knife Blade Scales Material for handle; wood, plastic, stabalized corn cob, mammoth tusk, stone ect. Good websites to purchase materials: Coming Soon. Ordering: Make sure to get the correct size pin for the Knife blade you chose. Step 1: Preparing Materials Once you have received your materials lay them out on a clean surface. Unsheathe your blade and cover the sharp section of the blade in Masking tape. This will protect you from cutting yourself and protect the blade from getting scratched.

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WEAR Protections! First operation today is to disassemble that chef knife. Problem : it has 4mm holes Solution : Drill bigger holes. To do that you need a metal drill bit, not 5mm but more like 5. Use a drill press or just be patient, strongly secure the blade, stay vertical and apply some pressure not too much, go slow Secure and drill them with the previous metal drill bit.

What is stabilized wood, and how do you do it? It is then heated to a specific temperature until the liquid "polymerizes" or becomes solid. At this point, the wood knife handles are no longer poro us an d become impervious to the shrinking and swelling associated with changes in humidity. This is especially important for kitchen knives in a professional, wet environment. The stabilized wood knife handles won't absorb the sometimes yucky stuff it comes in contact with when working in the kitchen, or field dressing fish or game. It's just good business to stabilize custom knife handles! Here's a short piece about selecting wood for knives. When they return, I can saw that block into four wood knife handle blocks of 1x2x5"—at this point, looking at your blocks, studying the grain, and determining which of those 2" flats you want to be the faces of your handles is essential. Nearly always, the grain on one side will be curlier, burlier, more twisted, or have some attractive color variation than what you see on the adjacent sides.

Making wooden knife handles

Whenever you go camping or to an outdoor trip in the forest, to the river you should carry with you the survival kit where the knife is the main tool among the others, and this wooden hand knife is the perfect piece for that purpose. In this instructable I will show you how to make wooden handle for a knife in a pretty easy way by using a strong glue and a group of wooden discs to stick them together. By the way forming this wooden handle will not cost you a lot of expensive tools since it is almost handmaded, you will need just a drill and some other handmade tools. The perfect wood to use is the more strengthen wood just like the oak, where the handle of the knife should be characterized by the strength that gives it enough power and the ability of cutting. So start by sawing five wooden discs using a 32 mm hole saw bit, while drilling make sure to depend on the slow rythm to make a clear sawing.

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We don't allow links in the comments. Editor's note: This is a hardening benchplate oil, the product description says it hardens within 3 days. Glue the first scale to the the tang with the prepared epoxy. So, start sanding on the outside edges and rotate the knife over the sand belt as needed to achieve the desired form and the perfect flush. San Mai is a term used to describe laminated steel, a sandwich of blade steel in th …. Now Tape those together with the blade on top. I will try below to describe what happens at Keith Nix Knives. The tang hole saw is just about long enough! The knife handle is finished. You will eventually sand this off. Your knife is now complete and ready to use. I use a bandsaw to split a 1" block in half and have a little wood to spare for sanding, flattening, and such.

A proper knife handle is one that feels snugly and secure to the palm.

For an even nicer finish, you can apply 1 coat of de-waxed shellac and 2 coats of an oil-based polyurethane sealer. The handle shape itself is a fairly straight handle with a fall near the end for a comfortable, secure grip. The thickness of the rod varies from knife to knife. The process of making custom knife handles may take a while, but it is easy once you know what to do. Round off the end of the tang using the sanding belt. Keep sanding the scales until you reach the metal part of the tang. When sanding the wood with fine sand paper and then grit only the top, flatter grains are sanded enough to remove the stain. The handle is left to soak in oil for a couple of hours before excess oil is wiped off and the handle is left to dry for at least a couple of days. I started on the outside edges and sanded the wood down until it was flush with the knife metal. Using a Pencil trace the edge of the blade handle onto your Handle Scales. So far we have only dealt with the tang itself, but I also want the blade top and bottom to sit slightly into the handle block for a really tight fit.