Making a knife handle using a lathe

Greetings.

Quite a long time ago I got a pair of knife blades. These were homemade knives made back in Soviet times. One did not have a pen at all, the other had a few fragments of transparent plastic left from the pen.

Finally, I chose the time to make the handles for these knives, otherwise there are several stainless steel knives in my kitchen that do not hold sharpening at all.

I slightly straightened the shape of the blades, polished it as best I could and sharpened it.

I decided to make the handle from oak dies.

In these dies I made markings to secure the knife. To select the grooves, I used a flexible shaft clamped in a chuck, and installed the chuck in a lathe. (I reviewed it here).

The machine gives a maximum of 3800 rpm and for a rotary cutter, in my opinion, this is quite enough.

The knife blade had a hole in the handle area, into which I inserted a small dowel to better secure the handle.

Then I glued both halves to the joinery PVA. He used glue to lubricate both the gluing plane and the grooves for the blade.

After the glue had dried, I cut off the ribs of the handle with a chisel and tried to shape it with a burr.

It seemed to me a long process, so I clamped a sanding pad with Velcro into the chuck of the lathe, and I made the shape of the handle with the help of this grinding wheel. First I used 40 grit and then 80 grit.

It turned out to be much faster. Then I smoothed the handle with a grinding attachment on a flexible shaft, and then 180 with sandpaper by hand.

The final grinding was done with a "mop" of sandpaper, and in the end he worked with a felt wheel.

Overall, this is a pretty good pen.

Covered the pens with oil and wax.

For greater clarity, I suggest watching a video clip on the manufacture of this pen.

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Alexander.

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