Indigenous Skills: Carving A Traditional Knife Handle

Traditional bent or curved knives are essential for carving Northwest Coast Art and are some of the only knives that work for carving Northwest Coast art shapes. The Indigenous Skills: Knife Handle video compliments the Indigenous Skills: Knife Making workshop videos (available to view on the Construction Foundation’s RUclips channel) by going through the process of carving out a wooden handle to your knife blade.
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[@lhenry1693]

Gchi miigwetch (big thank you) brother, from Ontario!

[@punchion]

You sir, are a skilled teacher. Wonderfully explained with great patience!

[@gabrielhill1725]

Excellent little video, so full of good little tips that you’re only gonna get from a skilled crafts person. “Make your cuts on the inside of the pencil marks.” is a good example.
I’d love to see more videos on similar subjects: adze handles, sheaths for carving knives, etc.
In any case, thanks so much for sharing your indigenous art and skills with us! It will be put to good use, that’s a promise.

[@benjamink.kelley-outten5080]

I am so happy to have found this video as it looks like something I can do easily at home, simple and straight forward. I would love to see a video on the making of the blades.