I made a small kitchen knife this weekend from scrap wood (an offcut of a coffee table I posted previously). It's a toy knife made for my son, who likes to hang out it the kitchen with us and play with his toy food set. We got the set secondhand from our neighbors, but it sadly lacked a knife, so into the shop we go! Process:
- Sketched a rough outline onto wood
- Roughly cut it out with a jigsaw
- Sanded it into shape with my belt sander (which is mounted upside-down into a purpose-built holder jig that clamps onto my bench)
More images below.
Cutting out the shape:
Shaping on the belt-sander jig:
Here it is rough-cut with the food set, for perspective. I should add that I finished it with Tried and True Varnish Oil, which is food-safe (made only from polymerized linseed oil + pine rosin).