Santoku Knife for Mincing Slicing and Dicing Vegetables - 10-3/4" - 4116 Stainless Steel - Unfinished Kit Reviews

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“This is great starter knife kit if you want to give "knife making" a go of it. I've done three of these Woodcraft knife kits so far. They allow you to focus on the wood only portion of the process. The steel did not show up very sharp but that's not an issue as I expected to sharpen it to my liking in any case. I went with Morado wood for the scales which I also got @Woodcraft for only $3.99 and was enough to makes scales for two of these knives that I bought. Morado is VERY hard also and produced a great finish but be prepared to put some elbow grease into any of the hand work you do on these. Couple of things: 1) the steel is VERY hard, like D2 steel hard so expect to spend a far amount of time sharpening it when you get to that point. 2) the kit comes with FOUR of the rivets and the handle only has TWO holes in it and the picture in the online catalog shows ZERO holes. :-) I used the two factory holes and added a third rivet in the slot towards the front of the handle. Worked out well. 3) I did NOT use the provided template for the handle but just traced the steel and then cut the scales close to the line before gluing them together with epoxy on the handle. Ran them on a disk sander after being epoxied to get them down to the tang. 4) Like the other reviewer the Torx connectors are a bit "tricky" because if your scales are too thin they bottom out prior to compressing the scales against the tang. DEFINITLEY dry fit everything before you go and mix up your batch of epoxy. If your scales are too thin you can grind down the rivets a bit. I found that carefully counter sinking the holes with a standard countersink until the top of the fastener is almost flush with the wood works well. Then file the rivets down to the same level as the wood. Turns out nice.”

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Posted 7 months ago

“The knife itself is sharp-enough, the construction feels nice and solid. The included template appears to be a wee-bit off, so use the actual holes in the blank to make accurate holes inside your knife scales. The included screws to be used as rivets however are infuriating. Get the knife blank, but get your own brass rod or stainless steel or anything else for the rivets. They use an awkward sized TINY torx bit and has basically no depth for good leverage power to either sink it slightly into the wood or look good in a light countersink. That and the fact that they use a fixed sleeve size rather than dual-screw into sheathe means if the knife scales aren't the perfect size for that particular torx screw and sheethe combo - they won't do a good job of binding.”

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Posted 8 months ago