My 7 year old son recently got a pocket knife. And so for the last couple months his whole train of thought has revolved around pocket knifes. Last weekend we went to the Zoo and he picked up some arrow heads from the gift shop. For some reason he thought it would be neat to make one into a knife. So today we did:
It is not really functional but we had a good time . I cut the stock on the TS and the grove for the "blade" on the bandsaw. Then he went to town with a rasp and a scraper to shape the handle. Finally we took it to the belt sander to put a decorative end on it (thanks Mike Davis!). The handle is cherry so of course it burned bad (scraper could fix that but I think my son likes it that way ).
Thanks for listening!
Salem
It is not really functional but we had a good time . I cut the stock on the TS and the grove for the "blade" on the bandsaw. Then he went to town with a rasp and a scraper to shape the handle. Finally we took it to the belt sander to put a decorative end on it (thanks Mike Davis!). The handle is cherry so of course it burned bad (scraper could fix that but I think my son likes it that way ).
Thanks for listening!
Salem