While at one of my favorite local stores, WoodCraft, I discover a knife kit and decided I would try it. The knife looked like this
and the wood like this
(sorry that’s kinda blurry) anyway it’s a drop point knife and the wood is “Bolivian Rosewood”
I had no clue how I was going to get these blocks of wood into the shape and size of a knife handle. So I went a googling and found a couple ideas. I decided to go with the bandsaw approach.
After cutting the wood to the shape of the handle, I took it to the belt sander to bring it down to size.
After belt sanding came drilling the holes for the hidden rivets
Then came alot more sanding, working my way from 60 grit all the way up to 220 for a smooth, gouge free finish. So a couple hours later I now have a new kinfe. Now I just have to figure out how to make a leather sheath for it and I’ll be good to go!
