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5 Knives #1: 5 Knives part 1
Part 1 The knives arrived.. this is my first blog and i thought it should be a useful one.I am making 5 knives I have a photo of the materials i will use in the first few. I will try and take a lot of...
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5 Knives #2: Planning planning planning.
I am starting with the 8cm stainless steal blade. I have a few pictures so you can see how the different spacer sizes look.Last week I was given a Hägg branch. (Prunus Padus – Bird Cherry) I was...
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5 Knives #3: Preparing the blanks
Here are a few photo’s of how i prepared 2 of the blanks although the stainless steal blank broke the m6 die.hopefully i have a solution to this and it will no longer be an issue on the other 2 ss...
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Hopefully by this time tomorrow i will have a series of pictures of materials for the handle. Tomorrow i will be asking for votes or opinions on the materials for making the first knife.I will try and...
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5 Knives #5: Your Decision... Pick a handle..
I would like a simple comment please. Pick A Pic. I did not take a photo of bird cherry 2 but you can pick this as well. Each layer will have a strip of black leather between it like the first picture....
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5 Knives #6: Winter is leaving Finland
After .. light flooding a shoulder injury.. glasses .. -32..3 foot of snow.. I finally have a workshop sort of warm enough to work in.. so i went to woodwork i town and started on the handles. Did some...
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5 Knives #7: I went to the woods.
Finland is famous for woods and my mother in law has a small one 13.5 hectare and her brother has about 20 hectares. I was helping take some trees for fire wood and I noticed some brown dots in the...
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5 Knives #8: -9 Shaping Sanding.
-9in the workshop so speed was the key today…. Tweaked my belt sander and started to cut the shapes in to the knife handle this is for a right hander. I was quite pleased with the shaping so i thought...
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5 Knives #9: Some times it's cold... Then it snows..
So i unveiled my knife handle this morning.. The curly birch was glowing.. the purple heart lookes splendid.. i think i will leave the bird cherry to a picture. After all a picture is worth 1000...
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5 Knives #10: A knife for Kaj
Kaj has supplied with a lot of wood to help me with my knife making and turning.This handle uses more traditional materials. He saw the knife with the Purple Heart and liked the colour.Birch Bark...
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5 Knives #11: Shaping and more shaping..
In varying stages of finish.. there are some rough shapes.. smooth shapes.. then I took it to Kaj. Marked where he wanted the thumb points. I have used the rough belt sander.. a runover with a hand...
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Little update on materials.
Was given some more pieces of wood for knife handles. A life event is slowing down the work shop visits. I know this is birch with damp/fungal issues. It will make a nice accent piece. I also cut out...
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5 Knives #12: Pink wood... yup..
now what wood is this….syren.. in swedish? most of it is rotted but what colours !! Busy day involving chainsaws, skidoos and -18 to -7 I have some lovely fresh birch wood.. A fall off a skidoo.. a...
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