Monday, August 6, 2012

New hook knife! UPDATE

I ordered a finishing hook knife from Nic Westermann the other week and the blade arrived today. 

                                          Here is the blade itself



 

 Here I chopped out the side profile of the handle I want to make


   Then I drilled the hole into the front with a 1/2 inch bit


   Then I drew out the top profile

                               The pencil line marks where the hole for the tang of the blade is

Then I chopped away the waste wood and cut the handle off. I carved a 3/16" chamfer on all edges except the front near the hole.



Then I carved a couple of pegs to hold the blade in place. I didn't have any epoxy on me so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to finish it up.


   Here is the knife next to a roughed out spoon that I carved last week

I'll have to fix the handle up a little bit later on a disc sander by tapering the handle towards the blade like it is towards the butt of the handle. The reason why I didn't taper it right away was because i didnt want to get carve too close to the hole. Then probably make the chamfers larger for a rounder handle, sand it up smooth, and put a coat of finish on it. (I'll upload a picture of the finished product later)



UPDATE

I finally bought some epoxy yesterday made by gorilla glue company. So this morning I got up and started working on it.
 I sanded the tang of the blade with some 100 grit to make a better bond and "epoxied" it in.

 I waited 2.5 hours for the epoxy to cure and trimmed the pegs flush and sliced excess epoxy off.

                                             Here is the knife before shaping the handle.

                              Here is the knife after shaping the handle and rounding over corners.

 The knife all ready to go but I wanted to sand it up to make it smooth. I went from 100-220 grit smoothing the handle out and after 2 light coats of the finish I use on my carvings I got to this...

                    I love the way it came out, the cherry is beautiful!!

I'll wait until 24 hours pass until I begin using it just to make sure the bond is good and solid.

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