I ordered this Hock carving knife blade from Hock Tools.
It is model CKCB100, a one inch chip carver knife blade made from high carbon steel and hardend to Rc62. This carving knife will be used in my shop. It will have handle scales from a piece of bocote. For the most part, all of the steps in this process are identical to the knife build #5, a carving knife. Details of that #5 build are shown in greater detail here. Info about knife blades is available at Hock site
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The handle for this blade will be relatively thin and short. Here the area to be rebated is marked...the blank is held in a pattern maker's vise. |
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The " deep rebate was created with a markout line knifed in...the bulk of waste was pulled with a hand router... |
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...and the touch up with paring chisels. |
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The blade in the rebate. |
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The blanks are ready for the holes... |
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I drilled one 5/32 hole using the blade tang hole as a guide...then stuck a pin in that hole to make sure the second hole was properly located. |
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The two scale blanks were then taped together and the holes were drilled in the second scale. |
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The front edge was marked out to be rough cut at the scroll saw. |
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Then the front edges of this handle were formed because they will not be able to be worked after glue up...used 80x on Rotex 90. |
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Dry fit...ready for epoxy |
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The knife was then epoxied and clamped overnight...blank is now ready for shaping... |
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The handle was worked on the belt sander, 80x. |
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The upper edge of the handle was ground until the spine was exposed and coplanar. |
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After the desired shape was acheived, further removal of wood was done with the Rotex 90 sander...the grits were progressed from 40x-80x-120x-220x-320x-400x. |
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The finishing cycle consisted of multiple coats of Waterlox© wiping varnish. Each coat was saturated and then dried using wet/dry sandpaper. |
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Two saturations and rub-ins were done at each grit from 400x-600x-800x-1000x.
The finish was extremely smooth.
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Finished knife. |
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