How to Make a Wood Knife That Stays Sharp and Works!
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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In this woodworking video I attempt to make a useable wooden knife by taking wood that’s already naturally hard and infusing it with resin to make it even harder to see if it will cut and maintain a sharp edge. In the first hardening technique, I’m using a product called Cactus Juice in conjunction with a vacuum chamber. The purpose of the vacuum chamber is to remove all the air naturally in the wood and replace it with resin. This is then baked in a toaster oven to harden the resin. The second technique is much simpler and uses a very thin resin called penetrating epoxy. This is just wiped on and soaks into the wood. I also make a 3rd knife using the same Brazilian chestnut without hardening to compare the 3 and see which technique works best. All of the handles are then made out of steel making these “reverse knives.” Watch the video to see if this experiment works!
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Fun one! And I need you to share your secret to cooking steak....that thing looked perfect and delicious!
I cook them at 400 degrees in an air fryer for 9 minutes flipping once. Coated with olive oil, salt and pepper before cooking. After cooking let it set covered for 5 minutes with a pad of butter on top. Perfect every single time! I know, cooking steak in an air fryer sounds terrible but it works!
@@MakeSomething You know, my Daughter has been extolling the virtues of air fryers for a year now. She uses hers for everything from french fries to toast. Gotta tell her to try a steak in there.
Wonder how it compares to my sous vide method
My favorite part was the bit about our safety is our responsibility. This is about having fun, making something. Experimenting. I dig it. The switching of wood and metal is a great idea. Great video.
Yep, this has been done before but I wanted to see if I could improve it by hardening the wood for these "reverse knives." I love experimenting and hope it encourages you to do the same! Make Something!
100% buy the cactus juice knife!
Make Something what is your favorite hand tool company ?
Wondering if you've seen this
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Guy makes a knife out of wood.
I was thinking maybe flame hardening would also work.
My wife would love this .... quite the novelty as a cake knife and would work great !!!
You should have said "and "wood" work great"
Great video David! I've been listening to the podcast for years and I can only imagine how satisfying it must feel to say "lets head out to the metal shop"
Man, no joke about the pro tip with the ear protection. Here in Texas we got our fair share of creepy crawlies and I’m always super paranoid about that.
Those knives are beautiful too, man.
A neighbor of mine found a rattlesnake in his garage. I find scorpions fairly regularly and we're in the suburbs of Fort Worth...
awesome project!
Fun experiment! Keep trying new things!
For self defense, who’s in ya house! We need to bring that saying back 😂
Love the material swap! Looks like it cuts a good steak perfectly! Those potatoes looked really good too!
Really cool project, results are better than I would have expected.
This is sooo F'ing cool. At first I thought, "ok, this will be neat but maybe not practical in use, but i'm going to enjoy watching this". Then I saw the steak and was happily proven wrong. I would love a set of wooden steak knives! Thanks David for making my weekend!
I knew you were doing this project, but I wasn't expecting the metal handles. That's a pretty unique approach. Love the way they look.
What a great pastry/cake knife.
Awesome project! Thanks for taking chances and letting us come along for the ride. Can we talk about your shirt for a second? Where did you get it? Why don’t I have one yet?
It will cut but will it "keeeeell"? #forgedinfire
Nice one.
So cool. Nice work David
Cool experiment, the knives do look awesome
The comparison/experimental aspect to this project is very interesting and enjoyable. Real good one, David!
I use the Cactus Juice often, I find wood stabilization very calming, usually takes a few days though.
Awesome knives. Maybe i will have to give it a try.
Super cool David!!👊🏻😊
Keep learning! I love the level of experimentation that you took on with this. I look forward to seeing your skills and ideas evolve.
They look awesome! I really enjoyed this video. You seemed more relaxed and less rushed than some of your others. Good work!
Cool experiment. Just received the stickers I ordered from your website. Was so excited you signed the back of them. Thanks for being a positive influence for us all!
Thanks Rob!
That’s pretty cool!
Would make for really stylish butter knifes. Or travel cutlery (just wood then, of course). It would certainly beat plastic - not just esthetically, but also in terms of sharpness. Because plastic knifes certainly don’t cut meat.
That was fun! The knives look great and cut much better than I was expecting. Thanks for sharing!
Cool idea. Love the experiments
You should surprise Kelly by replacing all the kitchen knives with those!
Great project. Very cool
In Bali the locals make all forms of cutlery and crockery using Coconut Wood. Very hard and dense. You might want to try another experiment with coconut wood.
Awesome build.
I remember a few months ago. I made some swords in woodshop. And for the edge, I just used a block plane and a no5 plane
I liked this one alot. I would love to see a full knife set like that, they just look cool.
Great combination the metal and wood you can tell it was made by a professional
Thanks David. I like all of your videos but this is one of my absolute favorites. Great idea and love the recap of the wins and losses on this project. Keep up the great work.
Those are really beautiful!
Cool project
Love it a reverse knife. Saw the thumbnail and was hoping you would do that. Cool project.
Good show Dave. This one was a little cut above the rest.
These are super cool!!!
Those look great David! It looks like the cut well too. Nice video!
Great project. Look forward to some more projects that combine the wood and metal shop
Really cool project! Nice to see you working with steel for a change. Also very cool design!!!
Cool Video David. I was wondering how epoxy would do making the edge harder. I'v made a quite a few wooden knives from various woods. Maple, Cherry, Makore, Black Walnut, Yellowheart, and Leopardwood (not sure of the spelling on that one). I also found that CA glue on the edge does work quite well. The ones I've made have been for cutting cheese or cake, so never tried to sharpen them enough to cut paper. I can say that of all the woods I tried, the Yellowheart took and held the best edge. Thanks for the video. Your wood/metal revers knife was a cool idea.
Awesome! I think this calls for some experimentation to see what woods would work better.
Oh Nice! I've got that same belt grinder! Ameribrade makes a fantastic belt grinder!
For sure! I’ve been very happy with mine
I really like the contrast between the steel and wood 👌
Thanks for showing me a new method. I usually harden my wooden blades in the forge, it's not been going so good.
ha!
It might work even better if you rough-ground the bevel first, and then hardened with the Cactus Juice or penetrating epoxy afterward. Then grind the final bevel. That way you might get more of the resin penetrating to where you need it. Just a thought...
Cool idea man the wood and metal combo look great!
Cool idea! Great video...
Fun project! Liked the comparison of the two methods. Now I expect to see Paul Jackman make a super-sized version of this out of pallet wood. 😉
Pretty cool project👍😎
Fun experiment and serious knife sharpening skills.
Great looking knifes. Does not have to be perfect. Just make something and learn and have fun on the way
would dig a part 2
Love it! Thanks David! Very good looking knives!
I would suggest grinding the bevel before infusing with epoxy or resin
Checked it, very cool.
love the quality of your builds man
Silly projects will keep this channel alive
Good shit
Very fun! I like Total Boat products. Everything I've tried had been top shelf!
Really cool! Damn, now I'm hungry... Have a great weekend!
What a fun experiment. Some of my favorite woodworking projects have been ones that force me to try something new and unconventional. I think you may be onto something using a softer wood to soak up more epoxy - maybe starting weaker with more penetrability would make a stronger end result
I'm impressed.
Love the video!
I was excited to see how this project turned out after hearing about it on your podcast! Very cool! They look beautiful!
What about making a throwing knife version?
Always fun to watch your content David, however I do miss your little song/movie clip soundbites, they always made me chuckle!
Cool video man. Love watching you guys figure things out!
Cool project! I’ve made wood butter knives in past and I’d bet the metal handle (even if made of aluminum) makes a nice balance in the overall weight. My experience is wood alone is a little awkward in the way it’s weighted. Thanks for sharing David. Cheers!
they do look cool. nice work and good info the resin and cactus juice.
Reverse knife, gotta be a Piccuto video, awesome work! Way to irritate the masses!
That's a neat experiment and they came out looking great! That steak though...yum.
Wait.... You have a metal shop TOO!?!?!? Super jealous!
I firmly believe David would survive on mars with all this science.
I wonder if you would have had better results if you had shaped the edge of the knife first, then infused it, and then sharpened it? Just a thought. Fun project by the way.
this is cool
I misread that shirt as "It's Never Too Late To Give Up"
that would be a quality demotivational quote
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That’s true wisdom right there. Sunk cost fallacy and all that 😄
@@raraavis7782 that's one of my favorite fallacies
NICE, last two videoes have been great !
Great video! When can we have a tour of the metal shop?
As a professional stabilizer, the wood he used was not completely stabilized. Firstly, the wood needs to be at absolute ZERO moisture by baking it @220 for 24 hours then weighing til no weight change. Second, out of the THOUSANDS of pounds of wood i've stabilized, none has been bubble free under 16 hours. Love you to death David, just don't want the wrong facts out there.
Diggin the red shirt brother! And great job with the metal work!
Love the shirt.
“That’s not a knife....this is a knife!” Great project David, can you do a maple knife test?
Great concept, experiments are good... I always enjoy your video’s and always feel a bit sorry if i put it on my “watch later” if i cant get at it straight away.
Such a great idea. Nice video. Cheers!
Metal shop??? I'm locked in.
Stamp initial in steel for what they are if you find out
About how thick do you think the starting wood templates were before you hardened them?
When you mentioned hardening techniques on Instagram I thought you where trolling. Lol good stuff!
ROFL.. glad to hear I'm not the only one paranoid enough to check headphones for bugs!
I think "Wrath of Khan" must've been a traumatic experience for me in my youth or something.
New viral title, "How to harden and sharpen your wood"
Instead of grinding your edge on the wood knife after you do your hardening with the epoxy you should grind your edge first before you do the hardening because you may have ground down to the softwood right through the epoxy.
I think a bras or copper handle would be perfect!
Un trabajo fantástico!!! Felicitaciones. Quisiera solicitarle si puede traducir algunos de sus videos al español. Muchas gracias!!!
They look awesome! 😍🔪🔪🔪 Really cool David! 👍🏻👊🏻
This is my jam!
Also, love the shirt.
Dude, I love your videos. Top notch content!
When he uses the machines the captions say music and applause
Another fantastic adventure in wood/metal experimentation. Dig the branching out, my dude. More cam out. Just sayin'. :P
I am wondering if a person were to take a thin (like 1/8th inch) piece of a soft wood such as pine or maple, infuse it with penetrating resin and follow that with an epoxy resin coating. Do you think it would be easier to both sharpen the blade as well as get it to stay sharp?