Knife porn thread

Another + for the Blenheim Forge class.
I did one in January.
My knives were never blunt.
Now they are sharper.
The only disappointment was that there wasn't any red-hot metal / sparks flying around.
I had expectations....

I rescued these scissors from my mum over Christmas, with the intention of getting them fixed for her.

Now that I have more time wondering if it's something that I could attempt myself. Any tips/ideas ? (Or advice to send it to a pro!)

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Prepare yourself for the weirdness wormhole of YouTube paracord craft videos.

Have you got a bench vice?

Not got a bench vice, but got a couple of different U clamps and things like that

Seen some of them already. Amazing what you can make out of nylon string.

Also been watching this

https://youtu.be/GoNhsPSWabY

While I'm tempted to give basic knife making a go I think the way he wraps the handle looks pretty good.

I'd be tempted to wrap with leather cord. A bit more aesthetically in keeping and should be a slightly lower profile than Paracord.

Pure utility would be an old innertube. Or sprayed with plastidip.

I was thinking you could gently straighten them between vice jaws, although they'd be more prone to snapping after. Not sure if u-clamps could achieve the same?

I’ve tried that many times and unless you glue it, it just works loose.

Plum is prone to splitting, as is using round section wood.
Try splitting bigger pieces length ways and using the sections, much less likely to split if carved green and if you leave it to season it dries pretty fast so is seasoned before you carve it.

I was splitting some Hazel for the stove and liked the curve and markings of this little piece so quickly whittled a small spoon.

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Leather or innertube?

Also had a go at a spoon today:

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So people use their whittled spoons?

No, these are merely apprentice pieces, a stepping stone towards the 2 metre prodding spoon for warding off potentially infected senior Tories. An essential whittling skill for these troubled times.

Nice one, ta. I'd done the splitting for the spoon but the smaller stuff (wrongly) figured round wood was right size so lesson learned.

Have used one of the split pieces of my latest to shape a spreading knife, and have 3 more usable bits which we'll all use to make spatulas.

I've been tasked with making a scoop too... just a spoon with the bowl shape shifted far forward I guess.

Nice spoons @adroit & @umop3pisdn

My latest from the birch found on Sunday, plus the spreading knife.

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Appreciating the whittling chat may be detracting from knife porn chat I've started a new thread:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/345638/

No, these are merely apprentice pieces, a stepping stone towards the 2 metre prodding spoon for warding off potentially infected senior Tories. An essential whittling skill for these troubled times.

These are the day when rep should be brought back.

Yep.

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strong work

Blenheim forge are doing a raffle with all money going to Cavell Nurses’ Trust

https://blenheimforge.co.uk/charityraffle

Love this, but our gendarmes wouldn't!

Useful little knife

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