Sharpening knives on YouTube

Sharpening knives on YouTube

Here is another free video on YT for you to catch up on sharpening your own knives quickly and simply. You can use what’s suggested in the video or you can use fingernail files (the longer ones) that work just as well. Often these use diamonds too!!! You can use this method for any knife…

Another Knife I Like

Another Knife I Like

This blog is not saying this knife is better than my Stanley 0-10-0598. It is most likely I will never turn loose of mine now as I love it. Someone wrote to me and pointed out the blades of the Swann Morton knife blades looked very similar to the Stanley blade used in the 0-10-0598 so…

Animal Welfare and Fruit Paring Knives Make Workable Knives for a Budget DIY Woodworker

Animal Welfare and Fruit Paring Knives Make Workable Knives for a Budget DIY Woodworker

I like to adapt existing tools for my work, make them, adapt them or whatever to suit my task. I found the different  curved hook knives less effective for carving more dense grained hardwoods and much less effective when the wood, hard or softwood, is dried and seasoned. With tons of both a ready and…

My Knife is Unique!

My Knife is Unique!

There are probably hundreds of different knives around made, intended or adapted for working wood with and I have made a couple of dozen through the decades that worked just fine. Some of you have noticed that my Stanley Folding Pocket Knife is different than the usual powder coated Stanley I started out espousing as…

More Sharpening Knife Notes

More Sharpening Knife Notes

From pocket knives to kitchen knives and just about any knife you care to name, a simple method to use is a piece of 3/4” piece of wood on the benchtop and an EZE-Lap diamond paddle. By placing the knife on the piece of wood with the edge just overhanging the edge and placing the…

Sharpen up!

Sharpen up!

Knives often seem problematic to many both in the holding of them at the right bevel angle and to maintain bevel angle consistency. I have made different types of guides and jigs for students to use because of this but generally freehand my own because it’s quicker and I can. With this jig we hold…