Yew and stainless whittler

[ScottE]

Been wanting a very small, very sharp detail knife for a while and thought I'd make my own.
A stainless blade from an old victrinox pen knife and a piece of seasoned standing yew.
Likely not the prettiest but it fits my hand like I made it!! and the little blade I ground into a mini drop point has taken a wicked edge....hopefully it holds it.
I'll hopefully carve something interesting with it soon...

 

[Bushcraft Rob]

Been wanting a very small, very sharp detail knife for a while and thought I'd make my own.
A stainless blade from an old victrinox pen knife and a piece of seasoned standing yew.
Likely not the prettiest but it fits my hand like I made it!! and the little blade I ground into a mini drop point has taken a wicked edge....hopefully it holds it.
I'll hopefully carve something interesting with it soon...
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V good mate if it does the job happy days

 

[Bushcraft Rob]

Very similar in design to the flexicut you blade being an old victrinox pen knife probably better steel and will hold an edge better, any preference to grind ?

 

[1 shot willie]

Hi Scott.

Very nice mate.............Yew have made a nice job of that.....and good choice of wood
Nothing like giving an old piece of kit a new lease of life.
Hope you have many happy hours of carving with it

 

[ScottE]

Very similar in design to the flexicut you blade being an old victrinox pen knife probably better steel and will hold an edge better, any preference to grind ?

I tried to just zero grind it but was losing too much steel, it's as close as I could get it to zero but with a tiny bevel.....basically a convex.

 

[ScottE]

Hi Scott.

Very nice mate.............Yew have made a nice job of that.....and good choice of wood
Nothing like giving an old piece of kit a new lease of life.
Hope you have many happy hours of carving with it

Thank Yew

 

[Bushcraft Rob]

I tried to just zero grind it but was losing too much steel, it's as close as I could get it to zero but with a tiny bevel.....basically a convex.

There seems to be a lot of talk on which grind to use, some say scandi, others say secondary bevel and so on, at the end of the day see what works for you? also a factor to take in to consideration it what type of wood you are carving ?

 

[1 shot willie]

Thank Yew

 

[ScottE]

There seems to be a lot of talk on which grind to use, some say scandi, others say secondary bevel and so on, at the end of the day see what works for you? also a factor to take in to consideration it what type of wood you are carving ?

I'll be carving mostly very green birch etc, hopefully it'll cope with the odd bit of seasoned pine for a wood spirit!
Still learning all this grinds for different uses....most of my kit has scandi but with regular stropping most have taken a tiny tiny bevel.

 

[Bushcraft Rob]

Lucky you didn't use Golden shower wood (Cassia Fistula) could have had a field day on that one

 

[ScottE]

Lucky you didn't use Golden shower wood (Cassia Fistula) could have had a field day on that one

 

[ScottE]

Just finished a little sheath for it, wet formed and hot waxed.

 

[Joecole]

Nice job Scott

 

[1 shot willie]

Nice job on that sheath Scott.

 

[jefft]

very nice