Kitchen Knife Rehandle and Sharpen

[Music] hey guys welcome back to the art of craftsmanship my name is Dustin and today in the shop we were going to be rehan dling a kitchen knife and re sharpening it so I was given this kitchen knife it has cracked scales the red scales are cracked on it so I'm going to take those scales off and I'm gonna show you guys how you can rehand alack itchin knife that you have whether or not you have a knife that you know maybe the scales are starting to come loose or it just doesn't match your kitchen set and you want to go ahead and put in new scales I'm gonna show you how to do that with this one specifically using the pre-existing knife and then also I'll show you how I eat sharp in my kitchen knives so this is my process of sharpening it's not the process that everyone could use or will use but I'll show you how I do it to make a really nice razor-sharp kitchen knife let's get started first thing I'm gonna do is use the grinder and cut off the old handle scale so I'm just gonna cut into these rivets at an angle and hopefully they'll just pop off for all those who are concerned in our previous videos about my PPE am wearing a respirator and I do have ear protection so thank you for the concern thank you for the comments and I will take those to hearts [Music] [Music] all right so here you can see that the rivets are actually only looks like maybe an eighth of an inch here and not this full size which is about nine thirty seconds or so which is good that just means I have more variety of what I can use when I'm gonna put rivets back on I have eighth inch and quarter inch brass so that's probably what I'll end up using maybe quarter inch but it also means that I'll be able to get these scales off a little bit easier so that's good news so I'm go ahead and flip this over and grind off the other ones as well [Music] [Music] after using the grinder and cutting off these rivet caps I was hoping that just by cutting the caps off the handle would actually come off but it hasn't so it looks to me that it's been glued on which is fine it just means I have to kind of rethink about my step so I'm gonna clean off the handle and I'm gonna get out the metal cutting bandsaw and I'm gonna cut them off from there because I'm going to also cut this cap I want to be able to put a handle on this full handle as well but I don't necessarily want to have to fit the handle exactly into this cap so I'm gonna go ahead and trim that off but I'm gonna leave the end of the tang all the way through to the end here [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I was about to continue grinding this off but I just thought this is pretty interesting I want to show you guys what's inside this handle it looks like some type of filler it looks like a plastic or maybe a red plastic handle that's Hollow and then there's an epoxy or a filler or something that's inside that glues everything together I'm not exactly sure what it is but it does a really good job it's gonna be a beast getting the rest of this off if anybody knows what it is in here anybody has an experience with these or you want to take a guess maybe put it in the comments below what do you what this is how do they how do they attach these scales I'm not exactly sure but if you have an idea put a comment down below and we'll see if we can figure it out [Music] [Music] [Music] we just kind of got to the point where I'm pulling this grinding as much of this as off as I could thinking I'd get down to a flat inner scale but the more we get and then where we look at it we realize that it's actually a hollow handle and it's a skeletonized handle underneath with kind of these u-shaped areas that the rivets sit in so it kind of I guess poses a different problem but I'm gonna go ahead and pop these out try to drift them out now with just a punch and we'll figure out what we're gonna do to rid these back on once we get to that point this is kind of cool you can see now that I've pulled out all of the material that was in here and I'm going to clean this up I'll use these spots these three spots for new rivets once I put the handle back on next thing I'm gonna do though is I want to square up the intersection between the integrated bolster and the tang here so I don't want to have to match this rounded corner with the wood that I'm going to put in here so instead I'm going to match that perfectly and have it you know fill the gaps I'm gonna take some files and I'll square up this transition so it's just a square intersection between this integral bolster and tang I have this nice piece of buco day that I'm gonna use for the handle so I'm just gonna press the bolster off as tight as I can on the wood and I'll just trace around this I have an idea of what I'm gonna cut out on the bandsaw [Music] so I'm just taking my marking gauge and I'm marking the centerline now and then we can go back and use a pencil to just go along that line and darken it in a little trick you'll see your scribe lines [Music] [Music] just finished up cutting the scales so now I'm going to just take them to the belt sander and get them perfectly flat on the inside before we fit them up to the bolsters [Music] I have the handle scales flattened now so I'm going to fit them now to the bolster I'm just taking a look at it so it's pretty pretty close bolsters pretty pretty flat here but where the Tang comes out it raises a little bit on here so I'm getting a little bit of a gap where I need this to fit all the way and so I'm just going to work on flattening this out as much as possible so that way I get a really nice tight fit top of the handle onto the bolster [Music] [Music] after a little bit of off-screen deliberation I've kind of come to the conclusion that the only way to attach these scales and have both scales line up perfectly where the integral bolster is because the bolster is not perfectly the same on both sides I can't just rely on drilling through you know setting up and joint through oh I have to get both scales into place like this until they fit really well and tight and then clamp it and drill through the whole thing together and so do be able to do that I'm gonna have to trace this on the outside of the scales here so that way once I get everything attached really well and even then I'll know where to drill through so that way I don't hit the metal and actually go through these three spot locations [Music] [Music] [Music] his handle is gonna take a decent amount of epoxy to fill up because the space is in the skeletonized scale so I'm gonna make sure I mix up enough [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so it is about to tape up the handle to you know protect my clamps from getting stuck to the handle and I was thinking oh I glad to just put tape on the actual clamps instead of actually put it on the handle and then it kind of came up the idea with my brother behind the camera why don't we just take my used latex gloves I can just cut off the fingertips and put some latex protective covers over the clamps safety first so I have all the handle everything attached now and clamped up glues looks really good I cleaned up all the squeeze out all around the bolster up top so we're gonna get and let this set up completely and then we'll come back and shape the handle we've left this to sit a couple days actually just to cure up completely so I'm gonna go ahead and take the clamps off and then we'll start shaping the handle [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so this one's not gonna have a ton of like a coke bottle shaped like I do for more bushcraft style knives this is going to be a fairly simple one just to even just a taper back so that way you have a nice you know firm grip full grip that you can cut with but just a simple even taper back to the end [Music] I hang on to old belts after you know something like this is from a smaller belt sander this is broken up so you just tear these up into longer strips and then you can actually use these to do your hand sanding because they're much stronger the backing is a fabric backing so it's a little stronger than the regular sandpaper so just tear these up into strips and you can use them do hands hanging [Music] just finished up taking the handle down all the way to a 400 grit sandpaper which just feels amazing it's super smooth really nice it's gonna be really a pleasure to use I've also sanded the bolster down to the same 400 grit so it's not a perfect finish but it does match up with the you know the steel tang and everything lines up well so I'm gonna get and tape the tape off now and I'm gonna use that same 400 grit paper and just take those scratch lines down the spine so it matches up here and then I'll show you guys how I sharpen my kitchen knives I just took off my 40 grit belt this is the one I was using for shaping the handle on the 1 by 30 what I'll do now is I just use an old belt this was originally I think a 120 belt but I just it's been used off and on for sharpening so it's probably closer now to a 300 or 400 grit SRIA Lee smooth and for sharpening kitchen knives you don't have to worry about taking a ton of material off you just want to clean that edge up and then put it put a hone and edge on it so after I use this belt then I'll switch to my stropping belt this is just an old belt turned inside out which I'll put some polishing compound on when you're sharpening kitchen knives and when you buy kitchen knives they will normally have what's called a flat grind so you have it's a tapered grind from the spine all the way to the edge and then you have a secondary bevel or a micro bevel on the fine edge so you don't have a perfectly flat edge that comes all the way down because that wouldn't be strong it would be sharp but it wouldn't be strong so this flat kind comes all the way to the edge and then you have a micro bevel or a secondary bevel which is another taper bevel down which just gives you a little bit more strength but can also become really sharp so I'm gonna be grinding with that edge facing away from me and I'll be using my slack belt so instead of using the platen where it's a hard backing I'll use up here where I don't have a backing behind it so it'll actually just put a little bit of a convex grind on that micro bevel so you'll see I'm going to as I'm grinding I'll just work the edge again so the belt is moving down and I just start from the bolster move out to the tip evenly as I pass and again on the slack part of the belt so it's an even pass all the way from bolster out to the tip trying to keep it as steep as I can I'll do a couple passes and then I'll take a look make sure my micro bevel looks fairly even and then just go back to it so couple passes and check the bevel and I'll put back and forth between both sides to make sure that my micro bevel is even as you can see here I've started getting the wire edge so this is a really thin piece of metal that is hanging onto the edge of my blade and as you can see on the tip right here there's no wire yet so that means this hasn't sharpened all the way to a perfectly fine edge once you get down to that edge you get this wire and this will kind of flip back and forth on your edge as you flip the blade back and forth when you're sharpening it so when you get that wire edge and it continues all the way from your bolster all the way to your tip then you know you're ready for stopping and the strapping will actually remove that edge which will then leave a perfectly fine sharp blade [Music] [Music] yeah I look so beautiful but whale just makes the green pop so nice alright guys well this is a really fun project just a fun couple days in the shop just kind of breathing new life into this knife that I had that had some cracked scales on it and just something that's relatively easy for you to do as well if you have a knife you know in in the kitchen that maybe isn't as sharp as you'd like it to be or doesn't look as nice as you'd like and take some time in the shop and put a new handle on it sharpen it up and just make it something that you really want to use and it just feels good in the hand there's just a pleasure to use so dropping some comments down below what do you think about this project what do you think about my other projects also follow us on Instagram at the art of craftsmanship I like to put up lots of images of things that I'm working on the shops you can kind of follow along with what's going on in the shop on it you know more day to day basis so it was a great time in the shop fun video we hoped you guys liked it and we'll see you in the next one [Music] you

Channel: The Art of Craftsmanship

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Keywords: kitchen knife, making a kitchen knife, rehandle, knife sharpening, diy kitchen knife, bokote, bokote handle scales, bokote knife handle, knife making, knife shop, wood shop, wooden knife handle, resharpen a knife, injection molded handle, plastic handle, diy handle, chef knife

Id: K1a-Hap-PyQ

Length: 29min 50sec (1790 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 26 2019