How To Make A Wood Carving Knife From A Straight Razor
Making a knife from a straight razor requires three things.
How to make a wood carving knife from a straight razor. - Making a Knife- Wood Carving Knife- carving knife from a saw blade- Thanks For Watching Knife Carving Tools. If you dont have a froe use a big knife or a ax to split the wood. I use a coping saw and hand tools to make the scales.
If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your. You can also sand the blade on an angle instead of carving. Gently graze the handle corners with the razor to round the handle.
Knives made from straight razors Bye the bye what I offered is still the part of the metal removal method I wasnt recommending forging yet just heat treating a bit of oil pliers a BurnsOMatic torch and a magnet and your steel blade and about an hour for the first try. I also use a froe and a metal ruler that is nice to have but you can do with out them. 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.
Do you want Razor Sharp knives. Today I am showing you a method to sharpen knives from completely dull to razor sharp in just 60 seconds. To make a knife out of a straight razor you need to shape the steel of the razor to a smaller and more convenient size by breaking the sharp edge down.
So how do you make a carving knife from a straight razor. In this video I show how to make a set of straight razor scales using regular simple hand tools. Use various grit sandpapers and or a whetstone to sharpen and polish the blade until it is razor.
This step-by-step process deals with making a hook knife crooked knife or bent knife from high carbon saw blade steel and could apply to a straight knife as well. Leave the epoxy to dry for a few hours at minimum and then depending on how well you did at grinding the blade you have a workable wood-carving knife. But workable just isnt good enough for me.