So, the concrete is poured, the bench is built, and we are moving on to installing the vise, creating the spark chute, and a rail for the spark chute. And, because this is about knives, I will show off the wooden prototype that I am marching towards as my first build. Let’s start off with the knife first because, well, knives…
Above is picture of my wooden prototype for the first knife I intend to make. I want to crank out a few of them and give them to some folks—my ten year old, my Dad, Nick (if he will take one), and I don’t know who else. One thing I didn’t count on his just how daunting this can be. Arm chair knife company executives on the Internet regularly moan about how one thing is a copy of another. The reality is, given how long knives have been around and how the job dictates the design (form follows function), there are only so many ways a knife can look before it looks like a knife made by someone else. There is not much room for originality. But I am trying.
Good luck to him. I have been covering the industry since 2014ish, and I still haven’t made a knife.
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