A Special Yule Gift Design – Butter knife
Some years back I was studying to become an artisan of small model design and building (not in so many words, let's just say it's woodworking with a design twist). We used to do most of the stuff by 3D CAD, in SolidWorks, but before we got there, we had to draw a butter knife by hand and then craft it using a band saw to cut it out from a 4by4 and cut the outline, then a belt sander to slim it down to reasonable thickness and to "sharpen" the blade. After all that was done we had to sand our knifes smooth by hand.
I decided I will try to create a few of these for my relatives as a gift.
Looks like I need to wipe off the butter first.
While I've already lost the original drawing of my design, I will be needing to do some reverse-engineering by outlining the already made butter knife with a sharpie.
Not too steady hand at 2AM.
Outlining was actually harder than I thought. I managed to lose grip of the knife a few times, and my lines got drawn all over the place. But I finally got the job done and had my drawing of the knife done. The rough estimated measurements are 17 cm in length and 18 to 22 millimeters in height at the handle, 40 millimeter at highest in the blade. (I don't want to wake everyone up rummaging my toolbox so giving out estimates for now.)
The finished outline
On to the subject of tools. I realised that apart from a soldering kit, a hammer and a drill, I haven't got any real tools, so I started throwing money around, and bought myself a cheap belt sander, actually the exact same one as the one seen in this video:
It's one loud sander I tell ya. I might need to buy myself some noise canceling earmuffs.
In the next post I will be talking about the materials, and getting my hands on to more tools. I'm on the lookout for a small bandsaw, a micro bandsaw or anything really that I can use to cut the wood. I might need to buy the wood pre-cut into the right thickness because I can't really get those kinds of tools to fit in our apartment. It's actually a good question if my sander is allowed either, because of the noise it makes. Anyway, it's not totally out of question to loan or rent the tools or place to make these things. As a matter of fact I'm taking my boys to see their grandfather tomorrow, so while we are there, I might be able to borrow my brother's tools. (I would need to acquire the wood first.)
So, I'm off to bed now, and I'll be documenting the rest of the project as it folds out in a coming blog post.
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