knifemaking tutorial - wooden hidden tang handle

[PlzBit]

What kinds of material do you use for your thin layers?

[Rhino148r]

where do you get your exotic woods from?

[Trollskyy]

@Rhino148r I am buying it in big wood store , also i run online knifemakers shop so i got plenty of it :)

[henka1bylin]

@Trollskyy What is the adress for the shop site?

[Trollskyy]

@henka1bylin please take a look damast_com_pl

[henka1bylin]

@Trollskyy ther isn´t some page in english

i´m not so great in polish!

[Tjolbi]

@henka1bylin You can use google translator to translate most of the site to English.

[delta2131]

whatever woods those were looked great together, very nice.

[Trollskyy]

@delta2131 it's wenge and padok

[pozytywnakuchnia]

Piękna pasja, jestem pełna podziwu i zazdroszczę umiejętności :).

[Trollskyy]

@pozytywnakuchnia dziękuje bardzo :)

[Splattis1996]

relaxing music :)

[suntansam1989]

what's the name of the adhesive/appoxy you use? very helpful vid by the way.

[nbeckste]

Wow this is really a great video. Thanks so much for posting this. I have been watching these videos because I want to build my own knife. Can I ask at 0:43 seconds it shows all the pieces of your handle. What are the small red inserts between the wood. What material is that?

[SugarcreekForge]

I like your video! You do good work and make the kind of knives that I also like to make. Thanks for taking the time to post!

[20lambertplz]

Sit back and congratulate yourself that your helping people out, me included! Thanks for posting!

[Trollskyy]

@20lambertplz my pleasure :)

[trashman49057]

Very nice Trollsky. The tutorials are great. Simple but very informative. Thank you for the work you put into them. I've never been a big fan of rat tail tangs. But i gotta admit i really like the look of your handles. keep up the work and posting videos. I'm subbin.

[schopenhauer1962]

When I first saw the handle, I had my thoughts, but the finished product looks really great, thanks for the tutorial. It's a beautiful knife.

[Trollskyy]

@schopenhauer1962 Thank You :)

[emcysquare]

I followed your tutorial and that's what I came out with

It's my first try at a hidden tang (and tird knife ever). Unknown wood (not very nice), cow bone, leather, fiber spacers.

Thank you very much!!

[Trollskyy]

@emcysquare great, If you have any additional information just ask, i'll try to answer best I can

[thunderhammerx]

very beautiful knife, sleek, simple and an all around great job. Keep up the good work.

[OutdoorLuke]

it helped me thank you =D

[spiritbear2a]

Beautifull..! Thanks for this vidéo

[Trollskyy]

@spiritbear2a Thank You very much Sir.

[mrouterrim]

that is one nice looking knife!!!!!!

[crusnik984]

Whats the name of that music on this video? it sound amazing. and I like ur video. its helping me figure out how to fix wooden handles on my knives

[Pikabe57]

Danish oil fuck yes, im dane!!

[jeffsantos1973]

im a beginner, and this helped.. thanks for the time you took.. keep it up.

[colwellk2]

thank you for the tutorial. Didn't I see you using a belt grinder in one video? Don't you use your belt sander to do the "rough" sanding of the handles? Move to rasps and then paper when you get close to the final form. At least, that is what I do. Although, I have to admit that I have ruined several handles by grinding too much, and I now use rasps a lot more than any other tool on wood. nice knife, and well done video. fun to watch.

[Trollskyy]

@colwellk2 Thanks for posting ! :) While I was making that one my belt grinder was down. Engine was old and it's burned. Yes, rasps are great, not so fast but there is great amount of control :) I screwed few handles using angle grinder - it's "eating" material way too fast for me. Thank You for watching my videos - that is why I create them - to compare experience with other makers and to show begginers how to start.

[emcysquare]

Thank you very much for your reply... I'd like to ask you a couple more things. I hope you will forgive the common curious entusiast beginner .... :-)

1) if the tang is square and the hole in the handle is round, will the epoxy be enought to prevent the blade from rolling in the handle? could I try to make a hole that better fits the tang shape? but how?

2) when you press the handle while letting the epoxy harden, how can you avoid damaging the point of the blade? how hard do you press??

T.U.V.M

[Trollskyy]

@emcysquare sure ask everything You want, i will try to answer.

1. Its better to make a hole in wood tight, but sometimes I leave it rounded, good option is to take a small file and before heat treating make smal burrs on the tang. Also be sure you removed all wood-dust from the wood after drilling the hole.

2. I use piece of g10 - its hard but not that hard to broke point of the blade, My press is made my own , it's very simple construction, strenght is not so big.

[emcysquare]

May I aska question? in 1:43 of this video it shows some orange Epoxy on the blade. How do you takeit off? It happened to me in a curved spot and never made it to take it all off the way I wanted, also some scratches from sandpaper are hard to remove is those spotes. Thank you

[Trollskyy]

@emcysquare I use very sharp and very thin knife. Also good thing is to use ducktape after sanding and before glue part :)

[jackrusselleko]

verry nice knife.. well done

[espressosoup]

Wow! That was beautiful. Thanks for making that vid.

[MrBlake181]

Very beatiful, almost better then Bill Gates money!

[NocturnalBreather]

@MrBlake181 no, skill like this is of a higher value to me than his money!

[masskwop]

beautiful knife

[charizardfang1]

what is fibra?

[Trollskyy]

@charizardfang1 fibra is a syntetic leather, it's made of paper pressed using very big pressure and some epoxy.

[esedul]

good work and beautiful piece!!

[Aedob4]

Trollskyy You are doing a great job with those knives, I like them, and thank you very much for posting these tutorials, it helps me a lot in making my firs knife. .... and congratulation!!!

[555Nato]

looks very nice.Is there any care one have to take for the wood handle?Like oiling it some now and then?Great video !

[USMCSergeant00]

Subscribed! Thanks for taking the time to make this handle tutorial, and that's a gorgeous little knife btw! Did you do the leatherwork yourself also?

[123johnson890]

yes awesome video!

[eccad252]

trollskyy, great video! Can you tell me where I can find a similar blade?

[MrCorncrack]

im wondering what kind of wood is that and were is your suplier im in nswaustrailia :S

[mgyan1]

Great Tutorial and knife thanks!!!

[mirkosrndovic]

Beautiful knife mate! Keep the good work. Cheers

[pyrea17]

Will you be making more videos about knives soon because if you are i will subscribe.

Dang! Some of the nicest knives ive seen.

[Trollskyy]

@pyrea17  ofcourse i will. next production is coming soon.

[nightwalker2830]

do you sell your knives you made

[Trollskyy]

@nightwalker2830 - yes i usually sell them to buy materials for next knives :)

[nightwalker2830]

@Trollskyy how much does a knife like that go for?

[DJonX7]

@Trollskyy It's aawesome because you could manage to get incredibly cheap material, and create very expensive work, and sell it for higher prices.

[Trollskyy]

@DJonX7 Yes, that is a great in knifemaking - You can create something using nothing :)

[crazzzyduckz1]

great work i love the wenge wood i have a bush knife with it thanks for the video 7 stars

[Trollskyy]

@crazzzyduckz1

yep, its one of my favourite wood , it looks like chocolate and when grinding it also smells like a chocolate. Regards

[Scream7277]

@Trollskyy Nice, any tips for folders? O.o Also, what is that song? :D!

[Trollskyy]

@Scream7277

its a piece of music from K-Pax movie, one of my favourite movies :)

i can't give You any advices about folders becouse i never tryied to create folder :)

[Scream7277]

@Trollskyy Dang, still amazingly peaceful and useful videos :D! I look foward to yout next ones! You got yourself a new subscriber.

[Conan568]

I drill my wood out slightly undersized, then heat the tang red hot and push the block onto the tang.

This results in a perfect fit and the glue really sticks to the charred wood.

This is how handles have been fit to tangs since the Viking days and it saves a LOT of filing.

Nice clamping setup.