Wanted to have a kitchen knife I didn't care about beating up to take camping and such. My wife grabbed a junk kitchen knife from a thrift store and I went to town on it.
I cut the whole thing down in order to have a proper tang. I made scales and a sheath out of poplar which I then finished with Tried and True (polymerized linseed oil with beeswax).
Did the majority of the work with an angle grinder, hand saws, and a bench top belt sander. Was going to hand chisel the inside of the sheath, but I got lazy and did it with a router.
Overall I'm happy with how it turned out. This is my first time doing any sort of "knife making" and I like how it looks. I definitely do not expect it to hold an edge well at all.
In the end the project was a failure because now I DO care about this knife because of the time I put into it.
Here's the full gallery: https://pixelfed.social/p/jaybird/597265855612303197
P.S. please let me know if there's a proper way to link a pixelfed post on Lemmy
Omg. I imagined you with a tiny router bit, digging into a solid sheath. I’m a moron. Lol Thank you for the great instruction.