Doug Stowe was doing fine craftsmanship professionally since I was still going to camp. His articles on woodworking and teaching and performing fine craftsmanship published in Fine Woodworking are all great reads. I have one of his books,
It is a delightful book with lots of great inspiration and examples.
Doug has been kind enough to grace the web with instructions for making a spoon making knife. It is a nice concise tutorial, where he details grinding, bending, hardening and tempering, as well as getting the handle on the knife. He wrote up on the Googles Knol site, where is is available for everyone.
I have only recently heard about Knols, a bit of a description and set of comments on Slashdot, and another reference to the knols on Doug Stowe’s website, Wisdom of the Hands If you are interested in the processes and theory of education, then his website will be of extra interest to you.
I love bent knives, and his directions are well laid out. Quite a body of good tutorials on the web these days.
The knols look interesting too. My thought would be to detail each of the processes, Annealing, Grinding, Bending, Hardening and Tempering as seperate knols. Then with links to them as steps, write a simple guide to making a plane blade. The fun part is that after doing the one article detailing annealing, you could just reference it in other articles.
Bob
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Another great find! Thanks.
Thanks for the link to the bent knife, Bob. Doug sure makes it look easy!
Cool site, I found your site looking for knife making supplies and ended up reading more than I expected and wanted to say thank you! If you ever think about learning how to make a knife you should check out http://www.knifemaking.us or http://www.knife-mart.com thanks!
I recently saw a native-American demonstration using a crooked knife while building a birch bark canoe. I was amazed at how much control he had and how much wood he was able to take off.
Although he was only using one hand, it looked as if he was using a drawknife.