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.
How to make carving knife. You can buy knife kits online that contain just the full-tang blade and pins. To make this instrucable you only need simple hand tools that most of you already have. Then you can make a crude pickaxe to actually mine Iron Ore to smelt into lumps to make a carving knife.
The tang is ground to a maximum thickness of 14. The top and bottom are rounded to fit into a 14 hole in a handle. It is very important to keep the tang straight so it enters the handle easily.
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. 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. The handles tend to fall between 4 and 5 inches.
The handle is sapele wood I have a small piece of it that Ive been using on small projects. I lay the blade on a flat surface and use the point of the drill bit to mark the center lines. I think is a great wood for knife handles.
These will serve as my guide lines for shaping the bevels. This video will show you how to make a wonderful carving knife from repurposed metal and some scrap wood. In this video I make a small carving knife.
Using an old one is fine as long as it hasnt been bent or overheated which often happens. How to make your favorite carving knife. Most carving knives have 8- 10- or 12-inch blades.