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Yew Letter Opener

Project by Waldschrat posted 297 days ago 283 views 0 times favorited 5 comments Add to Favorites Watch

Here is a small project that I made out of scraps of European Yew wood and Wenge… I think I must admitt that aside from maple and Zirbelkiefer, Yew wood is probably my favorite wood! Its hard, unbelievably flexible, finegrained, pretty color… well, too bad its very expensive and protected (at least here in Germany).

Using a “boule” style technique, my a collegue of mine built one exactly the same but opposite, the wenge on his is the main wood and has just stripes of the Euro. Yew… I do not have a pic of it though.

-- Nicholas, Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Partenkirchen, Germany


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lew

4405 posts in 633 days


posted 297 days ago

Beautiful!

Be interested in knowing how you created the slots for the blade. Did you also make the blade?

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Waldschrat

338 posts in 314 days


posted 297 days ago

Yes, I forgot to add that, I made the blade myself from an old plane iron/cutter/blade. So the steel is good quality, even if it is only really good for opening letters!

The slots are very easy, I measured the thickness of the blade and the design actually has a function the “cross” out of wenge (the darker wood) is the exact same thickness as the blade so I pretty much put it together like a sandwich… just measured the blade thickness and planed out the dark wood to match and glued it all together, I traced though the blade shape for the sheath out after planing and cut out the shape.

The cross on the face (the one facing us in the pic) is just for design…. I guess you can not see it but there is the same cross on the side too as well as both ends so it looks like it is going through the whole piece.

I hope that answered the question!

-- Nicholas, Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Partenkirchen, Germany

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mtnwild

1979 posts in 405 days


posted 297 days ago

Very nice project. Well done! Beautiful too.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

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whitedog

155 posts in 335 days


posted 297 days ago

very nice … i like it a lot. i may try one.

-- Paul , Calfornia

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ratchet

285 posts in 665 days


posted 297 days ago

Excellent project! You do nice work. Nice style and execution.

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