Making Your Own Carving Knife Handle with Beavercraft Knife Blank

beaver craft Knife Blanks I used: beavercrafttools.com/category...
this is a great affordable way to get into Carving. you can purchase your own knife blanks and make the handles that fit the way you work. Today I am making mine out of Live oak.
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[@W4ldgeist]

Beavercraft is really a great company. Had contact with them and they have a great customer service. Additionally they are not a Chinese company exploiting their workers, but a European company in a region with a lot of history in knife making.

[@PeteLewisWoodwork]

I have several Beaver Craft knives and gouges, I like them a lot. I know they're not the best but I've done stuff with them that I like and people want to buy. If they work for you, that's all that matters.

[@professor62]

Love that handle! BLO + white oak = beautiful magic!

[@darrenstricker9819]

I like the octagonal design. I think it gives the best control. The live oak is beautiful.

[@andrewcodelka5158]

That live oak looks absolutely gorgeous

[@warpfly6318]

Love the way the grain pops

[@mosesmedina789]

Beaver Craft makes some great sharp carving knives!

[@martinhawrylkiewicz2025]

Really great vid! Last year i bought myself a spoon knife from Beavercraft but right away I didn't;t like their thin/narrow handle in my big handle. Just didn't fit right so i decided to make a new handle from my old garden shovel handle (hickory). basically I cut off 6" of the handle, shaped it, drill a hole at one end...and instead of working with a blank spoon knife, i simply used my carving knife to carve the handle on my spoon knife into a round peg about 1/2" in diameter, and that's the size of the hole i made in my new handle. Then I simply joined the two with some epoxy. fits like a glove now.

[@benlikebike]

I like your approach, any wood, any tool. Its the most realistic approach, and when on a budget the only one. Of course as we learn that changes, and to each his entire. But that should be the start for anyone really.

[@madscientist5969]

Yes, Please! Live oak is a beautiful wood when paired with BLO and Paste Wax!

[@OpekiskaWood]

Nice handle. My grandson made a few handles for my rasp and file set. He would love that handle.

[@gigaphonicon]

That oak is gorgeous

[@leroybarker8510]

BLO, homemade is a lot of fun..

[@gdaemyir]

That live oak is beautiful

[@Humbik]

I love watching your videos! Most of the time when I need guidance on a wood project I come here and search for a similar video. Sometimes the tips I'm looking for a project come after my interest has past but I still watch the video and when I need it I go over the parts where I thought was useful.

[@bpower6362]

Great little project. Love that live oak. Now you need to make a wooden cover for the blade. :)

[@MrHappy-yh5do]

The live oak is so beautiful

[@kennethnielsen3864]

That handel looks super cool.

[@peterfairhurst8892]

Great little knife, and you're right that live oak is spectacular!

[@richardcaramagna7357]

Great use for a live oak cut off

[@wyssmaster]

Live oak is basically like a little kid: it's tough to work with, but the feeling you get when you see the results is incredible

[@donaldcallahan450]

yes it is

[@cbryantbear6498]

Wow! That is a great analogy!

[@FixItBuildItGrowIt]

Well done on the handle. What a great transformation undertaken by the live oak once the BLO was applied!

[@tylerjenkins91]

Those knife blanks look nice. But that handle turned out awesome!

[@davidwilladsen4630]

Carving knives... Another skill to learn 👌

[@jimwilliams2682]

That live oak made a really sharp knife! :)

[@glenndornak6410]

Great job. I like the octagonal handle idea. Keeps from rolling off the bench.

[@JeanMinutile]

You handled that knife pretty well !!!

[@daraven4714]

Little tip that I use making handles, I use playdough and grip it everyway I would use the knife to make a mock up/template to transfer to the wood, it gives a personalized ergonomic handle

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I like doing that for handles that I always grip in the same direction. There was a carving knife you're always switching the grip from a pencil hold to handle grip to a close slide to a finger press and a lot of others.

[@edwardwilson990]

Keep doing what you're doing, this is one of my favorite channels.

[@ThomasofAkron]

I love white oak. I turned and carved a complete chess set a while back. Carving is fun, with sharp edged tools. Looking forward to do more carving on future projects.

[@nurgle11]

Live oak looks great James and a nice a simple project for numptys like me :D

[@lukeweathers639]

I love the look of live oak. I made a mallet head out of it. Nice job!

[@TonyEvans1986]

Love the look of the live oak

[@brendanlangord1687]

Nice project, I love making custom handles that feels right in my hands.

[@donfroehlich9858]

It's alive!!! At least now if you make a mistake when carving you can blame the knife.

[@davejackson5989]

looking forward to some whittling!

[@davidpeckham2405]

Love the show. Makes me want to do more wood working.... or maybe just some whittling

[@david111rayment5]

I went beaver craft when i bought my whittling kit. Thinking it’s my go too

[@tomfreebern2556]

Great looking handle love the choice of live oak and thanks for the opportunity in the giveaway

[@dustinellegood6389]

I do have to agree that handle is beautiful, awesome work and I’m sure you will be happy to pick it up. I’d be making up reasons to just so I can look at it.

[@egbluesuede1220]

gorgeous piece of live oak! Anxious to see what videos you make using your new knife!

[@WoodFrontier]

That looks like it was a lot of fun to make.

[@kevinestep7840]

i like the simple and easy projects gives me ideas for my weekends off from work

[@MontyPython1087]

Love the color pop

[@WolfPawArmoury]

It's so satisfying seeing a finish project come together, and it's even more satisfying when you use a tool that you made yourself, even you just made the handle. That little personal touch makes all the difference in the world.

[@saraking9662]

Sometimes simple is just what a handle needs. Well done

[@rhonav330]

The blank just came alive just wright 😂

[@TheDistur]

I have a couple Beaver Craft knives. I like them. Very nice handle. I tend to do the drill a hole and split a dowel method for flat tang blades. Thanks for the video!

[@bretttodd901]

The handle turned out really nice. The live oak grain is fantastic. I think I’d probably like the octagonal handle more than the standard round one on my Mora carving knife.

[@danieljames4284]

Beautiful live oak. I haven’t worked with that yet but definitely want to!

[@johndixon8949]

Love the choice of live oak. Thanks for the video.

[@gordonkennygordon]

Good day to you! I'm just getting into hand tool work, and one of my upcoming projects is making a new handle for a broken bread knife. So this tutorial is perfectly timed :) Love the channel! Peace

[@duanethepirate]

Love the Live Oak!

[@sofakingphat8087]

I have worked on stacked leather handles and I’ve done other wood projects. I am really interested in trying this. I am a beginner but I love trying new projects and knives are really cool.

[@williams.6037]

Great looking live oak!

[@wolfman75]

Cool Handle James!!!! Thank You!!! 👍😎😃

[@jbtallullah7009]

Loved the videos on Beaver Creek. Looking forward to trying out their stuff firsthand. Great content as usual James.

[@terrymccarthy2830]

I think some Queensland Silky Oak would look great as a handle. Keep up the interesting content. Cheers Terry McCarthy

[@opabutterscotch5902]

Another awesome tool making video. Great to see your vids cause you include info with mistakes that let amateurs like me know that it’s gonna be ok.

[@bradrobinson5909]

I enjoy the small projects you do, Keep up the great work James. As time is scarce it is great to be able to get into the shop and knock out a small project every now and then! Should have used the red gum. That would be my choice here is Australia!

[@donaldcallahan450]

that handle looks great

[@jmh119]

I liked the way that turned out! Very nice.

[@DougAgee]

Looking forward to trying some live oak. Thanks for sharing the build.

[@moonwolf7135]

James love what you did with making the knife you inspired me and answered my questions I was having about making a handle for a knife

[@nicolasf2675]

Actually, simple projects are fine to me. It means I can do it without tons of tools I don't have and in few hours. Thanks.

[@campbellthornton4219]

Love the live oak!

[@bbrachman]

You need to make a wood 'cap' for the knife that matches the handle. Just for shop safety. Or, a leather one.

[@Apillicus]

After seeing the octagonal handles, I'm leaning more towards carving it into my handles. It certainly looks attractive

[@zed42]

i'm just commenting to get a shot at the blank :)

[@andrewking1122]

I have used my Ka-Bar knife to carve a wooden spoon from a piece of apricot.

[@MrConminer]

As many people pointed out I really like the octagonal handles too and awesome video enjoyed it. I guess there is a typo in the thumbnail ;) have a good day

[@warrenmunn3224]

Really easy and really simple suit me for projects. And being an Australian, a nice piece of Red Gum would make a great handle material

[@dylanneely91]

Euc? How do you deal with that cracking?

[@warrenmunn3224]

@@dylanneely91 I've found work with thin narrow boards (50-75mm x 10-20mm cut from as close to the centre as possible work reasonably well or the same cut from timber milled a long time ago. Old sleeepers are great for this, once you get rid of the outside material with an old chain on the chainsaw (don't use a new chain, up to 15mm deeper than any visible cracks will have bits of stone and metal imbedded into the wood). The older the timber the better. The best Redgum I've ever seen milled up came from the old Redheads Match factory in Richmond Vic. Probably 150 years old and very dry. I think that got cut into 50 x 100 and no cracks after about 2 years. The scrap also burnt really well after being exposed to the matchhead chemicals for so long.

[@dylanneely91]

@@warrenmunn3224 thats really something! Ill have to try that. Do you treat the ends (or the whole thing)? Thank you for the info. I'm an arborist in the USA and every piece of euc I've tried to save has ended up looking like 150 year old farm siding inside of a year. "Coolibah" (I think is how its spelled), blue ghost, "red ironbark" (again, I think, not one I've seen a lot of), yellow gum, all of them just rip themselves apart in my experience.

[@warrenmunn3224]

@@dylanneely91 Try milling thick slabs and then hope to get small thin boards out of it once it's dried. You rarely see Gum as timber here, its mainly Red Gum in old buildings as girders and beams or a railway sleepers. People now make slab tables out of Red Gum but is generally cut from deadfall not trees cut for timber (I've seen 2+ metre deadfall in paddocks, bloody big old dense River Reds). Only use I've ever seen for 'green' timber is as fence posts but you have to get the sapwood off as soon as it falls, once that starts to rot.....

[@iainmcculloch5807]

I do like the octagonal handle shape, and the finish on that live oak looks incredible!

[@mohammedakoojee6016]

Great video and beautiful handle. Peace, from South Africa.

[@derrilldersch9816]

This looks like something that I can do. Thank you for your time

[@MikeSmith-bf3yc]

Thanks for this. Tried this once and learned a few things from your video

[@gordonmccall5263]

Thanks for the give away! I can handle it!

[@MrMNRichardWright]

Thank you for sharing your skills and opinions.

[@dustythejones]

That’s a beautiful knife handle! It seems like deciding what feels comfortable in your hand would just take time and experience.

[@michaelstanford8330]

Great information for making your own handles

[@Rotorshaft1]

Nicely done. Tool projects are the best.

[@david111rayment5]

Thanks for showing this video

[@jonhaynie1987]

Cool stuff! Making your own tools can be so satisfying!

[@AirwolfCrazy]

Nice to see a bit more of Tally Ho.

[@adityakaushik3865]

i just love how sharp that knife is, i agree that the octagon handle is the best. and i just commented first

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Congrats on first!

[@johnpankow2387]

Love it! The handle looks beautiful!

[@michaels.8663]

Beautiful! I like that design!

[@natefein]

This is encouraging. I’m quite tempted to try this.

[@mykilfremn26]

Thank you for all you do

[@hakank68]

Really nice and easy project.

[@Existenseriet]

Great work on that knife!

[@omegaflameZ]

Been seeing a lot of octagonal handles on tools lately (vintage or otherwise), next time I turn a handle I might have to give it a try.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It is surprisingly comfortable. And it makes it very easy for your hand to know which direction the blade is going.

[@antonh8074]

Looks great! Simple and nice!

[@tylershipley3419]

Great video! Always enjoy watching.

[@drawlele]

I really love live oak and miss living in an area where I had nearly unlimited access to it

[@russstaples6125]

Nice knife handle. I love your channel. Thanks

[@brucemcdonald136]

Great video. Gives me hope that I could get some carving tools.

[@earendile]

Loved the video and want to say thanks for all the great content!

[@martyben8647]

I enjoy your videos you helped me go a long way . very informative thanks for sharing

[@airford13]

Always love your vids James, Im always learning another trick or skill!