Help I can't Stop making lil Wooden Knives !!!

That ebony one looks cool!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Thanks Gary …..That shape of the Ebony knife kind of just happened …

-- Mike in Bonney Lake " If you are real real real good your whole life, You 'll be buried in a curly maple coffin when you die."

those are some beautiful knifes there and i love the grain of the wood on all of them especially the ebony one. thanks for the post.

Mike,

You are doing well with these. Very nicely done.

It does look like you are having fun. That is what woodworking is all about.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Hey they would make wonderful letter openers. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Very nice. It is a good way to bring out and display the beauty of the wood.

I was looking at your knives (and they are very nice – love the accent of the wood) and wondering what you did with them – as jm2 stated – would make great letter openers.

-- "Have you hugged your pet today?" ---------- Larry

Thanks all for your nice comments …
Yes these were made to be letter openers I should have stated that in the opening comments ….....I do love the way they show the grain of beautiful wood …

-- Mike in Bonney Lake " If you are real real real good your whole life, You 'll be buried in a curly maple coffin when you die."

No idea what I’d do with them, but I want to make several! – great use of some leftover bits of beautiful wood.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Do like GaryK, and make a box to display your collection of woods (knives). And make more with exotic woods. Go wild, get crazy, keep on posting.

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

I think these are a perfect project for the offcuts generated when truing up lumber, and I’ve never seen anyone else come up with these. Great job…thanks for more reasons to hang on to little bits of wood ;^D

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Did you use the template I posted for my letter opener as a starting point?

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Gary ….I used your letter opener originally as a template …and since then have been eyeballing them ….I don’t like to do things the same way over and over …too much deja vu and I think i am a ground hog ..
But yet i keep making these knives/ lett openers …so i guess I do like to do some things more than once ..
As any woodworking
This is a bit addicting as in my wood collection I have a few exotics and beautiful domestics smaller pieces and once I made one knife./letter opener I was hooked …now i want to see what they all look like in this form …..
A nice long thin piece and we are really able to see the grain and color
I have really been surprised at how brittle some of the non domestic exotic woods are …the Marblewood, and bloodwood especially. The moisture/ oil content of course contributes to dryness.
Especially surprised at the lightness of Cherry and Alder once they dry …
thanks all

-- Mike in Bonney Lake " If you are real real real good your whole life, You 'll be buried in a curly maple coffin when you die."

Very cool, been thinking of making some letter openers. can see how they would be fun to make.

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

I’ve said it before (somewhere on the site) and I’ll say it again: these type of things would be great for opening cereal boxes!
AND they are so beautiful!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Nice letter openers. I made a couple of these myself and your right, they are very addicting.

-- Remember, measure twice, cut once

Cool and fun project

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Very Nice Knives

-- Jim, Kentucky

You could use them for spreading soft cheeses…. jams…. Good for children as their first knives….