**Creating a Chef's Knife: A Step-by-Step Guide**

Epoxy and hardener are mixed together in equal parts, with each serving five minutes for setting time. The creator has prepared pins, cardboard pieces to protect the wood, and a scale with tinfoil on it to measure the resin accurately. Seven grams of resin is measured out, followed by seven grams of hardener, and they are mixed together after 12 minutes. A small amount of epoxy is applied to both sides of the knife handle, using about half on each side.

**Preparing the Knife Handle**

The creator uses a scale with tinfoil on it to accurately measure the resin and hardener. The epoxy mixture is then carefully poured onto the wood, and the pins are inserted into the handle. A vise is used to compress the handles together tightly, ensuring a secure bond. The knife is placed in the vice, and the creator uses a knife to remove any excess epoxy from one side of the blade.

**Allowing Drying Time**

The creator allows the epoxy to dry for 24 hours before removing the knife from the vise. After 24 hours, the knife is removed, and it can be seen that it has held together well. The creator decides to sand down the handle to smooth out any imperfections and create a comfortable grip.

**Sanding the Handle**

The creator uses a mask and goggles when sanding the wood, as exotic woods can cause irritation in the lungs. Sandpaper with various grits (100-150-400-600) is used to sand down the handle, creating long strips of sandpaper that are relatively narrow. The creator uses scissors to cut the sandpaper into long strips and begins sanding the handle with 100-grit sandpaper.

**Finishing the Handle**

The creator continues to sand the handle using progressively finer grits (150-400-600) until it reaches a smooth finish. The suds on both sides of the blade are removed, ensuring that all angles feel comfortable in the hand. Once satisfied with the handle's feel, the creator flips the knife over and repeats the same process on the other side.

**Sharpening the Blade**

To create a sharp edge on the blade, the creator uses a sharpening stone to hone the metal. The small spot where the blade was bent is flattened out, creating a straighter edge. As the creator sharpens the blade, they take care not to remove too much material, which can compromise the knife's strength.

**Testing the Knife**

After completing the sharpening process, the creator tests the knife by cutting into a ripe tomato. The tomato yields to the pressure of the blade, demonstrating its sharpness and effectiveness. The creator also cuts through thin pieces of tomato, showing that the knife is capable of precise cuts.

**Conclusion**

The creator has successfully created a chef's knife using epoxy and hardener. From preparation to finishing, the process requires patience and attention to detail. The finished product is a beautifully crafted knife with a comfortable handle and a sharp edge. With its completion, the creator is ready to use it for cooking and other tasks that require precision cutting.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys chrisfix here today we're gonna do something a little bit different we're gonna be making a knife specifically a chef's knife and I'm gonna go through the whole process starting with a blank piece of metal I'm gonna give you the specifics so you could do this on your own so here are the tools you're gonna need to make a knife these are mostly essentials if you have a belt sander that'll make everything so much easier for you but I don't have a belt sander so instead I use an angle grinder make sure you have a cut off wheel dremel is definitely very helpful you need a drill you're gonna need some type of vise and then some type of workbench you're gonna need epoxy some type of hardwood I'll get into that later in the video what kind of wood you should be using for the handle I have these four pins for the handle drill bits you could use a file I use a file in the video and you're gonna need a lot of different types of sandpaper ranging from sixty grit all the way up to eight hundred or even if you want to go crazy 2,000 grit sandpaper that's super important because that's how you finish the blade so I'm using oh one tool steel and I'm using this because I could heat treat this and temper this myself at home I don't have to send it out these blades for the most part use stainless steel because they don't rust to prevent it from rusting all you have to do is take care of your knife and make sure you dry it off right away and oil it the steel I'm using is about 15 inches long two inches wide and it's three sixteenths or four millimeters thick so we could turn this sheet of metal into any of these so the first step is get a magic marker and trace the knife that you want onto your metal so that's the knife I'm making with that done now we can start cutting I just want to emphasize something real quick make sure you're using some type of Steel that you know you could treat and also that you know has a high carbon content you want a lot of carbon because the carbon will cause the knife to get really hard when you heat treat it if you just try to buy metal from Home Depot or something that doesn't have a high carbon content it's a waste of time because it's not going to work now is a good time to put your eye protection on your ear protection and a mask of some sort okay so we're done with the rough cut and we could really see how the knife is shaping up I'm gonna start to shape the edges a little bit to get them a little more smooth and then we'll start shaping the blade now I'm gonna take my grinder and just grind all these edges so they're a little bit smoother this is a lot smoother now it looks a lot better and now we could start filing so at this point you want to make sure your handle is pretty good it's the way you want it you want to make sure that the blade is nice and straight so at this stage once you're happy with your knife go find the drill bit that corresponds with the width of the knife so this knife is 3/16 of an inch thick so I look here and I found a drill bit 3/16 once you find a drill bit that's the same thickness as your metal you're gonna paint the blade portion of your knife we want to try to use a color that stands out this is red and just go along the blade or where the blade will be and just color it get a nice thick layer on there because you're gonna itch it away with the drill bit and that's how you gonna find your centerline you can see all the way along the blade nice and red now I'm gonna let that dry and I'll show you how we're gonna find the middle of the blade with the blade dry we just take our bit and right where it meets is the middle so just make a line all the way down and you can see that line goes all the way down and it's right in the middle so now we're gonna file and send off the metal on this side and on this side until it meets the middle here and that'll make the blade nice and even okay so now we're at the most difficult part of the whole process and that's creating this nice blade now I'm just using a metal file and you could probably see my metal file has a long rod attached to it so here's the rig I set up this is just clamped down onto the table now you're gonna have to find something and by something I mean one of these eye screws you could also use a lock that's where I ended up using and you just clamp it down now the reason why it's so long is because this is gonna go slot it in right there you can see it slid in right there and that's the angle that it creates I might want to go add a little more of an angle so I don't remove as much material I'll experiment as I go it's not a big deal right now and this will make it nice and even the whole way around so now this is gonna take a long time you want to take your time on this you want to do this right this is the most important part this is why it's a knife because it comes to two spots on the end that makes it really sharp and then you can see our line there and that's what we want to file down to once we get to that line we flip the blade over if you have a belt grinder or something that could grind this down quickly I would use that this is the long process it's gonna come out real nice but it takes a while what I'm about to do is I could see the marks that the files making so I know that's the highest point so now I'm gonna take my grinder and use that against the highest point and then go back with the file see where the highest point then go back in the grinder and keep doing that back and forth and that'll keep this side very consistent and then after I finish this side I'll show it to you guys and then flip it over you see I'm pretty much to the line I have a little bit more to go but I think what I'm gonna do is because someone to give myself some wiggle room just some space so if I mess up I'm gonna flip the blade over now and start on the other side just take it out of the vise and flip it over now that I have my starting marks I'll start grinding all up in here getting this down okay now this looks really nice the blade is nice and straight it's sharp already and we haven't even really sharpened to it so now we're going to be drilling the handle so I have this clamped and the handle out got these for a dollar stainless steel and all I'm going to do is just cut them off you can see already started I already cut this one because I wanted to get an idea of the thickness and this is spot-on so I'm going to use this drill bit so now we're on the sanding phase with our project this is what the unscented finish looks like and then that's what we want I'm even gonna get this down further but this is good enough for when we heat treat it so let's get this side to look like that side so here's the basic idea we're gonna start at 60 grit sandpaper which is really coarse and then we're gonna go to 230 grit and then we're gonna go to 400 grit and then 600 grit and to do all this I suggest you get a sanding block or some type of flat sanding tool to help you move back and forth smoothly and that'll just make this so much easier and a lot smoother now we're moving to 400 now we're moving up to 600 good we're done sanding so do the other side you ready so I did the other side now let's get a hot fire going to heat treat the knife so here's the type of fire you want to get going you want something tall something relatively thick because at the bottom you want as little oxygen as possible obviously if there's fire there's gonna be oxygen but you want to be starved if you starve all the oxygen or you starve a lot of the oxygen then you'll reduce the scaling on the blade so I waited till nighttime this is not the knife this is my practice knife the temperature is just right you can see it's a nice cherry red and here's my setup I have a heat gun but you could use a blow dryer or a fan or whatever that blows right into there so here's the idea it's very hot in there you just push this into the coals make sure you have a long pliers and a nice thick glove because I mean this is really hot and then I turn this on and this really gets the fire going and it's just cooking in there and that's cherry red it's the exact temperature we need so now I'll show you what we have to do inside the kitchen so I'm inside have the oven set on convection because it's the best setting at 400 degrees and I'm just preheating the blade this is the tallest container I could find I'm gonna fill it up and I'm gonna cut the top off and this is where I'm gonna dunk my blade in to oil quench it you want to oil quench it you want to use water because water creates bubbles on the surface while it's quenching and the bubbles could create minor stress fractures and also cool it unevenly so you want to use oil don't use motor oil use cooking oil I'm using vegetable oil so just real quick this is what I did I cut the top off and you can see it's gonna get dunked right in here and I can move it back and forth so before I do this I'm gonna go through the steps I got my oil right next to the fire I'm gonna put the chef's knife in there when I know the temperature is right and I'm gonna heat it up once I see that cherry red I'm gonna keep it like that for about a minute two minutes touch it with a magnet real quick make sure it's not magnetic if it's not magnetic I throw it back in there real quick heat it back up and then immediately pull it out and crunch it in this oil and then while you're quenching it in the oil I'm gonna be moving the blade back and forth not side-to-side you want to move it like you're you're slicing the air or slicing the oil and then once it cools down wipe the blade off with a paper towel or whatever and put it in the oven at 400 degrees for two hours and that'll give you the right hardness so we got the fire going got my good blade here this isn't the test one anymore I'm gonna put it right in the inferno okay it's it's in there now we just wait so I don't know if you could see it with the camera but that blade is red-hot so we're gonna go take it out so I'm going to test it with the magnet right here I have somebody helping me out just so I could do this all in one shot once it checks out with the magnet I'm going to dunk it right in the blade is the most important part so make sure that's submerged and you're moving it around like a cutting the oil the handle isn't as important I did flip it around and dunk it real quick as well so once this is about 150 degrees 180 degrees we'll clean it off with a paper towel and then we'll put it in the oven so once you could keep it in your hands it's still pretty hot like I can't hold it in my hands very long but once you could hold it just a little bit put it in the oven at 400 close it up and we'll wait two hours so it's two hours later I have this tray ready and I'm gonna put the knife right on the tray just like so and let this cool to room temperature once it's at room temperature 400 again for another two hours and then we are done so now that the blade is cool to the touch we're gonna go put it back in the oven for two more hours at 400 degrees and then the heat treating is complete finally all done now after four hours of total soak at 400 degrees let it sit here till it gets to room temperature then we could start working on it okay now in the daylight you could see the scaling on this isn't bad since we got the finish nice and smooth and I kept it in an area where there was very little oxygen deep inside the fire so that's gonna make cleaning this up a lot easier now the thing to focus on here is we don't want to heat this up we don't want to sand this so much that it heats up and then we're just gonna go through the same sanding steps as before except it's gonna be easier because it's just removing some scale so we're gonna start with 400 now using 600 grit I finished off with the wet sand you can see this came out really nice nice and smooth there's no dimples I'm gonna go do the other side you guys don't need to see that the same exact thing just stand it up and then when we're done we'll start with the handle okay I'm done sanding both sides I got this all roughed up also I used a little bit of degreaser to clean it off so if there's any oil on it it's cleaned off now we're gonna be working on getting the handle on the knife and just for your information this arrow here is because when I sharpen this I just need to take off a little bit of material right here just a little bit because it's not completely flat anyway with that side note here's the wood that we're gonna be using this is Brazilian cherry and this is a hardwood it has a really nice finish you want to make sure when you're picking a would you pick a wood that is hard that's durable this is an exotic wood but the other thing that you could do you could find wood that's been hardened so pretty much they soak any type of wood you could use a softwood you could use the hardwood any wood in a resin the wood that has the epoxy resin built in to make it really hard it's called stabilized wood that's another name for it definitely consider it but I wanted a wood that I'd have real wood handle a real wood finish and just it feel good in your hand you know this is gonna be a chef's knife so it is gonna see some water but I've had wood handled before and all we have to do is take care of him and now we're gonna drill the holes for this wood and line it up and everything then we'll get some epoxy and epoxy it up and then clamp it in and let it sit so now I'm going to take my wood and start aligning it to where I want it to be I just used whatever you want to clamp this on good now that's clamped in place where you want it it won't slide around and we could drill this out there's three so now we're going to take our wood flip it upside down align our holes you could even use your studs here try to get it aligned better and then take your other piece of wood and line it up exactly where the other one is and clamp it now with both sides clamped we could drill the final holes okay now we have our wood with our holes in it we'll get our epoxy all set and we'll also get our studs that go in here cut to the right length we want these to be cut too right about there I'll mark them with a marker and use the cutoff wheel and we'll get three pins all three of our knife handle pins are cut to size and now we're ready to bond the two pieces of wood Plus this and make a knife handle okay I got my vise and I have plastic wrap around the vise just so that any epoxy that gets on here doesn't get on my vise how my workstation setup got some tin foil with a little mixer here got my epoxy and my hardener right here and they're equal parts and they're five minutes so they set in five minutes so you don't have much time to work I have my pins ready to go and then I have two pieces of cardboard that are pretty thick to put in the vise so when it gets squished together it doesn't damage the wood here so provide some protection I'm gonna use a scale with some tinfoil on it you don't have to use a scale you could just do it by eye but I just like to be very accurate so that's seven grams of resin hit tare and that's seven grams of hardener now mix it together after twelve mixed we're gonna take a bunch and get it on our wood and use about half on this side then half on the other side and anything that you get extra epoxy on you could clean off with mineral spirits or acetone or nail polish remover whatever you want now I'm gonna get the knife I'm gonna put it down on there get the pins shove the pins through just like so and then get the rest right here put it on the handle good you can see I put some resin on the wrong side make sure you put this on the right side I just wiped it off it's not a big deal again I'm gonna be sanding it you get your hammer knock these in make sure we compress this very tight nice and tight the pins are pushed together and we'll let it dry for 24 hours and then go from there okay 24 hours later we could remove the knife from the vise so you can see it looks good now we're just gonna sand it down and finish the knife so when sanding this wood you want to make sure you use a mask and goggles because exotic woods could cause a lot of irritation in your lungs so it's definitely not good to breathe this in you can see that I am getting into the actual medal of the knife you don't want to heat that up so once you get to that we'll flip it over and get to that on the other side and then we'll start sending by hand after we finished with our flap disc we're gonna start moving to sandpaper we're going to go 100 to 150 to 400 to 600 and what we're gonna do is we want long strips of sandpaper that are relatively narrow so just get your scissors and cut a long strip so here's my long strip it's about a finger wide and this is the hundred grit so I have the knife facing downwards so this is how you grab it and what you're gonna do is you're just gonna go over and sand it just like that this will create a rounded edge on both sides okay once you're satisfied with how this feels we'll flip it over now we'll repeat the same process on this side so we get a nice feel once you get the handle the way you want it with that hundred grit then we'll just start moving up grits make sure you get the suds on both sides make sure you get all angles so it feels good in your hand now we're gonna do 150 once you get that side done flip it over and do the other side this is feeling really good right now I like it a lot let's go to 400 grit now we're going to move to 600 grit sandpaper and then we're almost done okay we're done with the handle looks good it feels really good now we're gonna finish up this blade this little spot right here I want to straighten out a little bit more and then we'll get a nice edge on the blade and then we're done we'll test it out so the last step is use this sharpening stone here and I'm gonna put a nice edge on this you could sharpen the blade however you want some people might not want to sharpen it this way if you have a better method then so be it and as I'm sharpening it I'm going to take off a little bit extra material here just to flatten it out oh yeah sure ooh that is crazy sharp okay and we are done so there we go the knife is done I have a really ripe tomato you can see it's really soft this is like the classic knife test to see the sharpness and then I mean look at that cut a nice small piece got an even thinner piece this thing is a beast so there you go that's how you make a nice chef's knife this is gonna be a Father's Day gift for my dad hopefully this video was enjoyable if it was give it a thumbs up also consider subscribing I publish how-to videos weekly and answer all the questions and comments you guys leave in the comment section below also in the description below are going to be the links to my Chris fix Facebook and Twitter pages if you use Facebook or Twitter go check it outhey guys chrisfix here today we're gonna do something a little bit different we're gonna be making a knife specifically a chef's knife and I'm gonna go through the whole process starting with a blank piece of metal I'm gonna give you the specifics so you could do this on your own so here are the tools you're gonna need to make a knife these are mostly essentials if you have a belt sander that'll make everything so much easier for you but I don't have a belt sander so instead I use an angle grinder make sure you have a cut off wheel dremel is definitely very helpful you need a drill you're gonna need some type of vise and then some type of workbench you're gonna need epoxy some type of hardwood I'll get into that later in the video what kind of wood you should be using for the handle I have these four pins for the handle drill bits you could use a file I use a file in the video and you're gonna need a lot of different types of sandpaper ranging from sixty grit all the way up to eight hundred or even if you want to go crazy 2,000 grit sandpaper that's super important because that's how you finish the blade so I'm using oh one tool steel and I'm using this because I could heat treat this and temper this myself at home I don't have to send it out these blades for the most part use stainless steel because they don't rust to prevent it from rusting all you have to do is take care of your knife and make sure you dry it off right away and oil it the steel I'm using is about 15 inches long two inches wide and it's three sixteenths or four millimeters thick so we could turn this sheet of metal into any of these so the first step is get a magic marker and trace the knife that you want onto your metal so that's the knife I'm making with that done now we can start cutting I just want to emphasize something real quick make sure you're using some type of Steel that you know you could treat and also that you know has a high carbon content you want a lot of carbon because the carbon will cause the knife to get really hard when you heat treat it if you just try to buy metal from Home Depot or something that doesn't have a high carbon content it's a waste of time because it's not going to work now is a good time to put your eye protection on your ear protection and a mask of some sort okay so we're done with the rough cut and we could really see how the knife is shaping up I'm gonna start to shape the edges a little bit to get them a little more smooth and then we'll start shaping the blade now I'm gonna take my grinder and just grind all these edges so they're a little bit smoother this is a lot smoother now it looks a lot better and now we could start filing so at this point you want to make sure your handle is pretty good it's the way you want it you want to make sure that the blade is nice and straight so at this stage once you're happy with your knife go find the drill bit that corresponds with the width of the knife so this knife is 3/16 of an inch thick so I look here and I found a drill bit 3/16 once you find a drill bit that's the same thickness as your metal you're gonna paint the blade portion of your knife we want to try to use a color that stands out this is red and just go along the blade or where the blade will be and just color it get a nice thick layer on there because you're gonna itch it away with the drill bit and that's how you gonna find your centerline you can see all the way along the blade nice and red now I'm gonna let that dry and I'll show you how we're gonna find the middle of the blade with the blade dry we just take our bit and right where it meets is the middle so just make a line all the way down and you can see that line goes all the way down and it's right in the middle so now we're gonna file and send off the metal on this side and on this side until it meets the middle here and that'll make the blade nice and even okay so now we're at the most difficult part of the whole process and that's creating this nice blade now I'm just using a metal file and you could probably see my metal file has a long rod attached to it so here's the rig I set up this is just clamped down onto the table now you're gonna have to find something and by something I mean one of these eye screws you could also use a lock that's where I ended up using and you just clamp it down now the reason why it's so long is because this is gonna go slot it in right there you can see it slid in right there and that's the angle that it creates I might want to go add a little more of an angle so I don't remove as much material I'll experiment as I go it's not a big deal right now and this will make it nice and even the whole way around so now this is gonna take a long time you want to take your time on this you want to do this right this is the most important part this is why it's a knife because it comes to two spots on the end that makes it really sharp and then you can see our line there and that's what we want to file down to once we get to that line we flip the blade over if you have a belt grinder or something that could grind this down quickly I would use that this is the long process it's gonna come out real nice but it takes a while what I'm about to do is I could see the marks that the files making so I know that's the highest point so now I'm gonna take my grinder and use that against the highest point and then go back with the file see where the highest point then go back in the grinder and keep doing that back and forth and that'll keep this side very consistent and then after I finish this side I'll show it to you guys and then flip it over you see I'm pretty much to the line I have a little bit more to go but I think what I'm gonna do is because someone to give myself some wiggle room just some space so if I mess up I'm gonna flip the blade over now and start on the other side just take it out of the vise and flip it over now that I have my starting marks I'll start grinding all up in here getting this down okay now this looks really nice the blade is nice and straight it's sharp already and we haven't even really sharpened to it so now we're going to be drilling the handle so I have this clamped and the handle out got these for a dollar stainless steel and all I'm going to do is just cut them off you can see already started I already cut this one because I wanted to get an idea of the thickness and this is spot-on so I'm going to use this drill bit so now we're on the sanding phase with our project this is what the unscented finish looks like and then that's what we want I'm even gonna get this down further but this is good enough for when we heat treat it so let's get this side to look like that side so here's the basic idea we're gonna start at 60 grit sandpaper which is really coarse and then we're gonna go to 230 grit and then we're gonna go to 400 grit and then 600 grit and to do all this I suggest you get a sanding block or some type of flat sanding tool to help you move back and forth smoothly and that'll just make this so much easier and a lot smoother now we're moving to 400 now we're moving up to 600 good we're done sanding so do the other side you ready so I did the other side now let's get a hot fire going to heat treat the knife so here's the type of fire you want to get going you want something tall something relatively thick because at the bottom you want as little oxygen as possible obviously if there's fire there's gonna be oxygen but you want to be starved if you starve all the oxygen or you starve a lot of the oxygen then you'll reduce the scaling on the blade so I waited till nighttime this is not the knife this is my practice knife the temperature is just right you can see it's a nice cherry red and here's my setup I have a heat gun but you could use a blow dryer or a fan or whatever that blows right into there so here's the idea it's very hot in there you just push this into the coals make sure you have a long pliers and a nice thick glove because I mean this is really hot and then I turn this on and this really gets the fire going and it's just cooking in there and that's cherry red it's the exact temperature we need so now I'll show you what we have to do inside the kitchen so I'm inside have the oven set on convection because it's the best setting at 400 degrees and I'm just preheating the blade this is the tallest container I could find I'm gonna fill it up and I'm gonna cut the top off and this is where I'm gonna dunk my blade in to oil quench it you want to oil quench it you want to use water because water creates bubbles on the surface while it's quenching and the bubbles could create minor stress fractures and also cool it unevenly so you want to use oil don't use motor oil use cooking oil I'm using vegetable oil so just real quick this is what I did I cut the top off and you can see it's gonna get dunked right in here and I can move it back and forth so before I do this I'm gonna go through the steps I got my oil right next to the fire I'm gonna put the chef's knife in there when I know the temperature is right and I'm gonna heat it up once I see that cherry red I'm gonna keep it like that for about a minute two minutes touch it with a magnet real quick make sure it's not magnetic if it's not magnetic I throw it back in there real quick heat it back up and then immediately pull it out and crunch it in this oil and then while you're quenching it in the oil I'm gonna be moving the blade back and forth not side-to-side you want to move it like you're you're slicing the air or slicing the oil and then once it cools down wipe the blade off with a paper towel or whatever and put it in the oven at 400 degrees for two hours and that'll give you the right hardness so we got the fire going got my good blade here this isn't the test one anymore I'm gonna put it right in the inferno okay it's it's in there now we just wait so I don't know if you could see it with the camera but that blade is red-hot so we're gonna go take it out so I'm going to test it with the magnet right here I have somebody helping me out just so I could do this all in one shot once it checks out with the magnet I'm going to dunk it right in the blade is the most important part so make sure that's submerged and you're moving it around like a cutting the oil the handle isn't as important I did flip it around and dunk it real quick as well so once this is about 150 degrees 180 degrees we'll clean it off with a paper towel and then we'll put it in the oven so once you could keep it in your hands it's still pretty hot like I can't hold it in my hands very long but once you could hold it just a little bit put it in the oven at 400 close it up and we'll wait two hours so it's two hours later I have this tray ready and I'm gonna put the knife right on the tray just like so and let this cool to room temperature once it's at room temperature 400 again for another two hours and then we are done so now that the blade is cool to the touch we're gonna go put it back in the oven for two more hours at 400 degrees and then the heat treating is complete finally all done now after four hours of total soak at 400 degrees let it sit here till it gets to room temperature then we could start working on it okay now in the daylight you could see the scaling on this isn't bad since we got the finish nice and smooth and I kept it in an area where there was very little oxygen deep inside the fire so that's gonna make cleaning this up a lot easier now the thing to focus on here is we don't want to heat this up we don't want to sand this so much that it heats up and then we're just gonna go through the same sanding steps as before except it's gonna be easier because it's just removing some scale so we're gonna start with 400 now using 600 grit I finished off with the wet sand you can see this came out really nice nice and smooth there's no dimples I'm gonna go do the other side you guys don't need to see that the same exact thing just stand it up and then when we're done we'll start with the handle okay I'm done sanding both sides I got this all roughed up also I used a little bit of degreaser to clean it off so if there's any oil on it it's cleaned off now we're gonna be working on getting the handle on the knife and just for your information this arrow here is because when I sharpen this I just need to take off a little bit of material right here just a little bit because it's not completely flat anyway with that side note here's the wood that we're gonna be using this is Brazilian cherry and this is a hardwood it has a really nice finish you want to make sure when you're picking a would you pick a wood that is hard that's durable this is an exotic wood but the other thing that you could do you could find wood that's been hardened so pretty much they soak any type of wood you could use a softwood you could use the hardwood any wood in a resin the wood that has the epoxy resin built in to make it really hard it's called stabilized wood that's another name for it definitely consider it but I wanted a wood that I'd have real wood handle a real wood finish and just it feel good in your hand you know this is gonna be a chef's knife so it is gonna see some water but I've had wood handled before and all we have to do is take care of him and now we're gonna drill the holes for this wood and line it up and everything then we'll get some epoxy and epoxy it up and then clamp it in and let it sit so now I'm going to take my wood and start aligning it to where I want it to be I just used whatever you want to clamp this on good now that's clamped in place where you want it it won't slide around and we could drill this out there's three so now we're going to take our wood flip it upside down align our holes you could even use your studs here try to get it aligned better and then take your other piece of wood and line it up exactly where the other one is and clamp it now with both sides clamped we could drill the final holes okay now we have our wood with our holes in it we'll get our epoxy all set and we'll also get our studs that go in here cut to the right length we want these to be cut too right about there I'll mark them with a marker and use the cutoff wheel and we'll get three pins all three of our knife handle pins are cut to size and now we're ready to bond the two pieces of wood Plus this and make a knife handle okay I got my vise and I have plastic wrap around the vise just so that any epoxy that gets on here doesn't get on my vise how my workstation setup got some tin foil with a little mixer here got my epoxy and my hardener right here and they're equal parts and they're five minutes so they set in five minutes so you don't have much time to work I have my pins ready to go and then I have two pieces of cardboard that are pretty thick to put in the vise so when it gets squished together it doesn't damage the wood here so provide some protection I'm gonna use a scale with some tinfoil on it you don't have to use a scale you could just do it by eye but I just like to be very accurate so that's seven grams of resin hit tare and that's seven grams of hardener now mix it together after twelve mixed we're gonna take a bunch and get it on our wood and use about half on this side then half on the other side and anything that you get extra epoxy on you could clean off with mineral spirits or acetone or nail polish remover whatever you want now I'm gonna get the knife I'm gonna put it down on there get the pins shove the pins through just like so and then get the rest right here put it on the handle good you can see I put some resin on the wrong side make sure you put this on the right side I just wiped it off it's not a big deal again I'm gonna be sanding it you get your hammer knock these in make sure we compress this very tight nice and tight the pins are pushed together and we'll let it dry for 24 hours and then go from there okay 24 hours later we could remove the knife from the vise so you can see it looks good now we're just gonna sand it down and finish the knife so when sanding this wood you want to make sure you use a mask and goggles because exotic woods could cause a lot of irritation in your lungs so it's definitely not good to breathe this in you can see that I am getting into the actual medal of the knife you don't want to heat that up so once you get to that we'll flip it over and get to that on the other side and then we'll start sending by hand after we finished with our flap disc we're gonna start moving to sandpaper we're going to go 100 to 150 to 400 to 600 and what we're gonna do is we want long strips of sandpaper that are relatively narrow so just get your scissors and cut a long strip so here's my long strip it's about a finger wide and this is the hundred grit so I have the knife facing downwards so this is how you grab it and what you're gonna do is you're just gonna go over and sand it just like that this will create a rounded edge on both sides okay once you're satisfied with how this feels we'll flip it over now we'll repeat the same process on this side so we get a nice feel once you get the handle the way you want it with that hundred grit then we'll just start moving up grits make sure you get the suds on both sides make sure you get all angles so it feels good in your hand now we're gonna do 150 once you get that side done flip it over and do the other side this is feeling really good right now I like it a lot let's go to 400 grit now we're going to move to 600 grit sandpaper and then we're almost done okay we're done with the handle looks good it feels really good now we're gonna finish up this blade this little spot right here I want to straighten out a little bit more and then we'll get a nice edge on the blade and then we're done we'll test it out so the last step is use this sharpening stone here and I'm gonna put a nice edge on this you could sharpen the blade however you want some people might not want to sharpen it this way if you have a better method then so be it and as I'm sharpening it I'm going to take off a little bit extra material here just to flatten it out oh yeah sure ooh that is crazy sharp okay and we are done so there we go the knife is done I have a really ripe tomato you can see it's really soft this is like the classic knife test to see the sharpness and then I mean look at that cut a nice small piece got an even thinner piece this thing is a beast so there you go that's how you make a nice chef's knife this is gonna be a Father's Day gift for my dad hopefully this video was enjoyable if it was give it a thumbs up also consider subscribing I publish how-to videos weekly and answer all the questions and comments you guys leave in the comment section below also in the description below are going to be the links to my Chris fix Facebook and Twitter pages if you use Facebook or Twitter go check it out\n"