Throwback to this time last year:
This was the result of the first week of knife making class last year at the #makerspace called Station North in Baltimore - mine is inspired by tibetan spiritual knives since I wanted this for my practice✨ (but make it ergonomic🤓), my partner made a butcher knife (that we totally use in our kitchen all the time🥰) - the class was for making basic kitchen knives- but I've never been one to conform👹 and the teacher was too fascinated by my design to say no to a custom design for my very first knife 😅
We learned to draft a pattern, cut the full tang blade out of a steel bar, drilled pinholes and selected wood for the handle - I chose Koa wood because it was used in weapons by Hawaiian warriors.
The maker space gets donations of tiny exotic wood scraps from a local high end furniture maker that they use for knife handles. Did you know that "koa" means "warrior" in Hawaiian?
#makingstuff #knifemaking #metalworking #neverstoplearning #makerspace
