first finished kitchen knife

[olymon]

Well here is the first kitchen knife I've made.
blade - 5 1/2" 154cm
handle - stabilized birdseye maple and vintage paper micarta ( 30 yrs old)
Made for my wife for Christmas. Let me know the good and bad of it.

Crappy cell phone pics

 

[number9]

I like that a lot!

 

[FOG2]

I have no bad to comment on. It's all Good IMO.

 

[oldtymer]

I'd be proud to have it in my block,nice job

 

[olymon]

Kinda funny, you make a knife and nobody knows you do it (because you took 12+ years off), and then all of a sudden you are making a bunch for your friends and family.

Same poor quality cell phone pics. My wife jokes that I need to upgrade my photo skills and pictures. Of course, my little 2 1/2 year old son keeps saying dad you make me "big" knife. Maybe a small dull one would be good for the butter he cuts up for making popcorn.

My 7 year old son wanted one. 3 1/2" 154cm Birdseye and Brazilian walnut


My 5 year old daughter wanted one. 3 1/4" 154cm fiberglass/resin handle


And one for the brother in-law for his birthday. 6" 154cm Brazilian walnut

 

[Knives&More]

The knife looks good! I am curious to how thin the knife is ground.

 

[olymon]

To thick for the standards around here. .09" spine and I only took it to. .025" for the cutting edge. I've never made an edge that thin so I held back a bit. I'm working on one now that I hope to get down to. .010" before I start putting a handle on it. I've got to work up my confidence level going that thin on an edge. A long time ago I did some filet knives before and they were near zero, but they were made out of 1 1/2" wide band saw blades from our shop. Never heat treated them, just left them as they were.