hi everybody in this video i'm going toshow you how i've made the custom curved knife which i've made for my son as thepresent for him. 'oh yeah i like mushrooms..' ..very very much'. as you can noticethis video will be a little bit different from my other videos because for thefirst time ever i will try to comment my work instead of writing subtitles so wewill see how it will work i'm using a piece of wood which left mefrom making my kitchen island. this is a part of the beech kitchen countertop andit is pretty dense wood which allows me to make detailed and fancy shapes in it.now i'm making a little mushroom at the top of the handle. i wanted to makeit to be similar to very good mushroom
which is called in my language borowiki believe that in english this would be belatus, belitusor something like this.anyway.. ..first i was marking the shape on thehandle then i was cutting along the lines and now i'm starting carving as you can see carving isn't as complicated asrocket science. in fact there is one rule you have to obey during carving: do not work across the grain, work along it and that's all!i'm using a stainless steel blade but with poor quality. it is very thin and not verysharp and it is very elastic. this is exactly what i wanted in this projectbecause it will be used by my son
and i do not want him to hurt hisself the first step in making the blade is tomark the final shape. i'm a little bit lazy, so i tried to make it by hand, but it didn'twork, so i tried with a piece of wood it didn't work either, then i finally take aruler and it works okay as you can see i'm making a little bit curved bladewhich is because such sshape is better to use when you cutting mushrooms now i'm making the blade straight. yes yesthis isn't the best way to do that but i do not have every tool in my workshop and i have toimprovise and make hacks like this i think that the best and device for thejob would be a belt sanderr or something
like this (simmilar) it is a pretty straight at least for mebut of course haters gonna hate and they will be writing comment below my videothat this was inappropriate method for making this blade straight by the waydon't you think that the diy projects are defined by such hacks ? now it's time to glue the blade into thehandle. i'm using polyurethane glue for that purpose. the holes which leftafter the gluing, i will cover with the putty which i've made from the wooddust and normal wood glue .
now the most satisfying part of everywoodworking project. you take a raw material you put a stain on it and you end with the final product this is very satisfying! if you evertried to stain wood - you know what i mean i'm using standard wood stains based onoil but not oil paints! anyway, during making this video it turns thatone of my stains is almost 8 years after expiration day so it turns into somethinggreaish and smells awful, so i had to change it to another one as i said before this is a verysatisfying thing to do. you paint.. and watch... paint... and watch...
after staining i'm using a very finesandpaper to make a handle look more interestingand finally i'm using a spray laquer to cover the final coat as a protection and that's allknife is ready to cut some mushrooms i hope that you've enjoyed the video atleast so much as i enjoyed making this project. iit was a really good oneif so, then leave a thumbs up and subscribe my channel.you can also watch my other videos till the next time! bye