Wooden Cheese Knives

The blade of these cheese knives are made of taxus/yew and the handle is made of plum wood.

All the wood I used was scrap wood saved from the fire bin.

The tools I used:

• Pencil
• Jig saw
• Hotglue gun
• table saw
• edge sander
• random orbit sander

Misc:

• Isopropanol (=alcohol)
• Walnut oil

I used a live edge of yew for the blade.

I drew the form with a pencil on the board and cut it out with a jigsaw.

The blade was to thick but to small to cut it on a table saw in a safe way.

So I glued it with hot glue on a board.

With the supporting board it was no problem to cut the wooden blade.

But my table saw was not high enough, so I cut it first from one side,

then I flipped it over and cut it from the other side.

To remove the blade from the board I used alcohol.

This works pretty well. But it works better if the supporting board has a smooth surface.

on my edge sander I gave the blade the final shape

I transferred the form of the blade on a piece of plum wood and cut it out with the jigsaw.

But this was not very exact. Then I glued them together.

On the router, with a special router bit, it has a ring with the same diameter as the router bit, I copied the exact shape of the blade to the handle

I glued the second part of the handle on the blade and shaped it with the router again.

There was a lot of sanding. I used my edge sander and my random orbit sander to do the job.

For the finish I used walnut oil. This is food save and works pretty well as a wood finish.

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