Hook Knife Part 2

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okay so this part of the process is no different than what we did with the other blade for 25 on bake and just a regular toaster oven you can buy a flea market or whatever the case may be and just set your blade on the rack close the oven and leave it in there about two hours okay so now that we have our blade in the tempering process we've heat treated now we're tempering it to pull some of the hardness back out of it so it's not brittle we've got our handle drawn out on a piece of oak stock here that was reclaimed from the knife shop and I'm gonna cut that handle out on a bandsaw really quick or on a scroll saw and then we're going to shape our handle and then bore a hole in it and the difference is yesterday we went ahead and put the handle on our knife ahead of time glued everything up epoxy then we shaped our handle we had a straight blade to hold on to to do that shaping work on the belt with this particular tool because you have a hooked blade it's not that simple and we're not going all the way through the tang so we only need to drill in about a couple of inches or an inch and a half deep on here to put our Tang in there in epoxy it in so we'll go ahead and cut the handle off first and shape that and bore it while we're waiting on our blade to finish tempering stay with me

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okay so that feels pretty good in my hand if I were going to use a reverse grip with it so now we're going to go ahead and bore a hole in it and then we'll start to shape it on the sander okay so I board a 7/32 hole in this thing centerline and now we're going to use a fairly heavy belt to knock some of them excess off of here and start to get rounded out then we'll get on with a shaping belt to do the rest [Music]

I think that'll work for the initial sanding on this thing and now we'll put some hand paper to it to get it nice and smooth okay so there's our handle prepped and ready now we just got to wait for our blade you come out of heat treat and temper and we will be ready to assemble this thing let it dry and then do our final sharpening and testing of the tool okay what's our time is that the deep tree here we can kind of pull this dude out and now we can see if we've got this hole big enough or not that we made Britannic better kind of slide it down in there and see oh my god it's pretty close my need to take a little bit off the tank but not much easy enough to do on the grinder wants this cools down then we're going to epoxy this dude in place you ready do our final grind on the blade okay so before we glue things up we want to look at our fit up make sure we're down to that wire edge has the only thing we're going to do after this is buff it and now we're ready to glue it in place and we'll have our market Augen ready to finish up all right so squeeze equal parts of epoxy in get those mixed up and just like before I'm going to take this and cut the Tang with it really really well we've got a lot smaller hole we're dealing with this time so we're not going to get it crazy about trying to pour it down the hole just going to shove it in there just like that and make sure that we're getting straight we need to turn it at all we'll do that now we're pretty good shape they're far the line that goes okay so here's our tool when I put my mark on it here DC and I put one coat of oil on the handle already I've got the blade taped up from where I was working with the handle and now I'm going to untape the blade because we really need to look at the final sharpening of this blade now and testing it to see how it's going to work and it's meant to be held in this fashion but it can also be held in this fashion like a normal look nice so we'll discuss that and do some demos with that once we get it sharpened down so we've got a really really fine belt on this grinder and like I said we're going to kind of freehand this a little bit because we want a little bit of a convex grind here

so we're gonna come back from the bottom here and the short bed is up on the top so I'm kind of starting my grind from the bottom and then working up to that it's kind of like and remember that we want our believe to be able to lift itself up out of the material so I'm just kind of gently rocking it give it a little bit of convexity so it's not a full arm candy grind all right so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna strap this thing and this got a cut piece of scrap leather here I'm gonna putting these vise jaws just to kind of protect this handle from getting messed up I'd probably be better off cutting out apartment walls I get something in there so this handle doesn't get smashed in those knife jaws I'll be in pretty good shape now what we're gonna do is we're going to go toward the blade edge on our cutting edges here okay so we're kind of rolling toward that blade edge with this straw and that's going to roll the burr to the inside and we'll take that off last because that's going to get us to our razor edge and we're just following that bubbling around with the strap just like this 20 30 40 strokes is not gonna hurt anything and once we get that done we're just gonna come in from the top and knock that bar edge off from the top just like this just rotating it with the tool we've got a rounded edge here so you get right up in there to that curve just like this

get exactly what we want if you don't see we're out here oh yeah thanks kids sharp for sure