[Jonathan Stanley]

There is a knife by Logan Pearce that I saw at the Spring, Piney Woods, Hammer in, that has deep wavy grooves in the handle. I have been trying to make this design of handle for a while now because I see it so often, but I was wandering how to make the grooves like that.Is there a special tool? Could I just do it with the belt sander? Would an exact o knife work?I tried continuously to attach a picture of the knife to this topic but nothing would work for me. You should be able to look at the recently posted images and see the picture of it that I posted.


Any help would be great,
Jonathan.

[Lin Rhea]

Jonathan, first make sure you are logged in and try it again. Your photo album may be full too. You might look at that and delete the one you've had there the longest.

I can say one thing about you, you're not scared to try things.

I have not watched Logan cut his handle grooves, so I am just making a suggestion. I would not use the grinder. Have you ever used any cabinet maker's files? Nicholson makes a #49 and #50 that are great for gently removing and carving wood. Of course, you will have to stop before you cut too deep since the teeth are pretty aggressive. Then start with sand paper and backing sticks.

[Jonathan Stanley]

What is a cabinet file?

[Russell Roosevelt]

Hi Jonathan;

A cabinet or woodworkers file is designed for wood.

Russell

[Cheyenne Walker]

Yea, Jonathan isn't afraid of anything. His enthusiasm and willingness to try something new is motivating.

[Jonathan Stanley]

Thanks

[Logan Pearce]

You're probably talking about this knife:




I do it just like everyone else is saying, by using files. It's safer, but the main reason is because I can control how much material, wood or metal, that I am taking away with a file rather than using a grinder.

First I like my grooves to look a certain way, so I using a magic marker to draw out how I want my lines to look.

When I start filing, I use a normal Nicholson file. I prefer the metal ones, even though I'm carving wood, I just like the metal ones better. I tried using wood files, but they took off too much and that is probably because of my lack of skill more than anything else. I use this file to establish my depth and make the foundation for my carving.

If I have curves, like with my Twisted Fighter, then I use smaller flexible needle files. I use their flexibility to cut the waves or curves in my grooves. Once I'm satisfied with the way the handle looks I clean up all of my file marks with sanding paper. Working my way up from 30 or 60 grit to 400+, depending on how I want it to look.

That's how I do it. I try to keep things as simple as possible. I hope this helps.


Logan Pearce

[Jonathan Stanley]

Thank you so much!
I had never heard of needle files.
I will definitely give it a try.

[Cheyenne Walker]

Now that I have seen a picture of it, I'm like Jonathan. I think I want to try that.

[Jonathan Stanley]

By the way, Logan,
How long did it take for you to do that handle

[Logan Pearce]

It usually takes me a few days to do it. I don't do it all at once. Every time I try to, I end up messing things up.