Wanted to have a kitchen knife I didn't care about beating up to take camping and such. My wife grabbed a junk kitchen knife from a thrift store and I went to town on it.
I cut the whole thing down in order to have a proper tang. I made scales and a sheath out of poplar which I then finished with Tried and True (polymerized linseed oil with beeswax).
Did the majority of the work with an angle grinder, hand saws, and a bench top belt sander. Was going to hand chisel the inside of the sheath, but I got lazy and did it with a router.
Overall I'm happy with how it turned out. This is my first time doing any sort of "knife making" and I like how it looks. I definitely do not expect it to hold an edge well at all.
In the end the project was a failure because now I DO care about this knife because of the time I put into it.
Here's the full gallery: https://pixelfed.social/p/jaybird/597265855612303197
P.S. please let me know if there's a proper way to link a pixelfed post on Lemmy
I love the tone of the wood!
Edit: just saw how small it is on pixelfed- its adorable! Seems like a nice versatile size. Easy to clean and handle, and good for a lot of basic tasks
Oh is it little!? Definitely needs a banana for scale lol
The post on pixelfed has it next to his hand, and says its a 5.5 inch blade. Without visual context I assumed it was like an 8 inch standard chefs knife
Yeah it's just a little guy! The original knife I started with had a 10" blade and was terribly unbalanced. It also didn't have a full tang so it would easily flex where the handle met the blade. So I essentially shortened the knife so that I could cut a proper tang out of a portion of the original blade.
I always hated how small paring knives are, so I really like this size for doing a lot of things I would normally use a paring knife for while still feeling nice to hold and being a bit more versatile.