How To Make Carving Knife
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.
How to make carving knife. To make this instrucable you only need simple hand tools that most of you already have. 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. We will be making a spoon carving knife hook knife crook knife with Allen Newberry JS.
I used a Sharpie marker to paint the blade edge and used a drill bit that is the same thickness as the steel to scribe a line down the middle of the edge. The blade has a full convex grind profile no secondary bevel which makes it well suited for carving and a snap to sharpen. Using an old one is fine as long as it hasnt been bent or overheated which often happens.
At the end of this session you will have carved your very own spatula to take home and use and will have the knowledge needed to go away and build on. The handle tang part should be already cut in the shape of the wood handle scale. If you dont know which size is right for you a 10-inch knife is a good starting place.
The handles tend to fall between 4 and 5 inches. Most carving knives have 8- 10- or 12-inch blades. These will serve as my guide lines for shaping the bevels.
It is very important to keep the tang straight so it enters the handle easily. Then you can make a crude pickaxe to actually mine Iron Ore to smelt into lumps to make a carving knife. I lay the blade on a flat surface and use the point of the drill bit to mark the center lines.
If you dont have a froe use a big knife or a ax to split the wood. You need a hammer a saw a file a vice an ax and a knife. You can buy knife kits online that contain just the full-tang blade and pins.