Knives

Was at the local Woodcraft store and saw a damaskus steel knife blade for a kitchen paring knife. Kit form, all you have to do is make handles. So I ended up buying two and made walnut handles and gave one to my daughter. Then I bought another blade from Woodcraft and made the striped handle knife. It is high carbon, hock company. I don't like it much, the shape or the way the blade is discoloring, although that is probably normal.

Then, enjoying the process of making handles, I ordered some more blades. In the second picture with the walnut handle is a short drop blade hunter from rockler hardware. I made a maple handled one just like it and let my husband pick between the maple and walnut and he chose the maple so that knife is not shown because he is wearing it on his belt.

The other knife I tried resin casting for the first time. I made a little box mold out of a cutting board and screwed it together. I had some 20+ year old driftwood that was real dry, put a little slab of that in the resin to use for the wood portion. Turned out decent for the first try. I find the resin casting very intriguing and may invest in a vacuum pot which is useful to get rid of air bubbles.

Just my first amateur attempts. I couldn't begin to make a blade but had fun making the handles. Thanks for looking.