Hello, I recently made this kitchen knife for my dad. I learned sooooooooo much! I forged it out of some old tool. Unsure in the metal. I learned how to draw file, and got a lot of practice in with it on this knife (even though i’m still really bad). I tried to work a small distal taper in and I think it worked out okay, but I could do better. On the handle I had to use some creative thinking, I was originally going to put a guard on and file everything flush, but I did not have a small enough drill bit, so I messed around with a copper plumbing pipe until It worked. The wood is from a tree in our backyard, I don’t know the species of tree, but it looks pretty cool. I decided to file the angles on the handle and made it a sort of octagon shape. Then I hand sanded everything. Every night for around a week went something like this:
Dad/Mom: “Come to dinner, Smokey!”
Me: “In a minute, I just need to finish sanding this part of the handle!”
Dad/Mom: “It’s been five minutes, the food is getting cold!”
Me: “i’ll Be right there!”
*I finish an hour later, everybody has finished dinner, and I have a lot of homework to do*
Criticism welcome! (Sorry bout the bad pics)