i’ll second ocooch. that’s my general go-to for craft hardwoods. best variety there is and pretty reasonable pricing.
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I love them. Definitely more interesting than my drawer of unused butter knives. Thanks for sharing your project, i never would’ve thought to make something like that.
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Thank you for the kind words 
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Those are really nice.
I was trying to get the last bit of mayo out of the jar once and thinking it would be nice to have a knife that matched the shape of the mayo jar (many products use the same shape) so I made myself one but instead of proofgrade I made it in birdseye maple I bought from these folk…
https://www.gvwp.net/online-store/Large-Grab-Bag-Box-of-Thin-Stock-p56354670
Ocooch used to have packs that maxed out at 1/2" thick but they now max out at one full inch. Almost all are 3" wide and the thicker stuff quickly eats up the volume that one would rather be thinner stuff but at least I could deep engrave anything under 1/2". However, 5/16" beautiful wood and a belt sander can make great knives.
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Awesome, I will have to check them out as well! And brilliant use case… I need to add that to my TODO list!
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Well, if we’re doing this… Check out #1a:
There’s a reference to an “excellent list of wood suppliers” in there.
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These turned out fantastic!!Thanks for sharing!
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Very pretty! I like the thicker blades, both because you see more of the wood pattern - and because I feel like they’re less likely to break!
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Thank you!
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Thank you! I actually had a few break when sanding, 2x cherry, and 1 walnut… and a poplar also ended up a little thin, and would not have made it with any actual use, so I skipped it. But most came out quite well (the magic of video editing)
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These look great.
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Thank you!
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I bet this will show you how important grain direction is!
One idea to consider would be to glue two 1/16” layers up at like 30 degrees cross grain, then cut your blade blank from your new homebrew plywood. It should make the blade far stronger and resistant to breakage.
Fun detail there is that you can have different woods on front and back, making for a two-tone blade.
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actually, i would suggest 3 1/16 boards. that way you can have the same grain on both outsides and the crossgrain would be the center board. and i don’t think 3/16 is too thick, especially with sanding down to create the sharp edge.
what might make that interesting is if you made the center piece a different color piece of wood. so the blade edge would be a different color, along with the seam at the top.
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These are really gorgeous! I love the ‘Scandinavian’ design aesthetic.
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There’s no wrong way
I did 3 contrasting layers of 1/16 to make knife scales and it looked really cool.
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I also wonder about sanding it with superglue/CA glue - I did that with my pen and it made it both crazy shiny and really strong.
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Yeah acts as a stabilizer, I’d guess. I dunno about food safety with cyanoacrylate…. I’d probably stick to food grade mineral oil.
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Fantastic idea!
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Love that idea too, along with @evansd2’s. 3 pieces might actually work a tad better, since the edge would be sanded out of a solid piece, instead of sanding along where the boards are glued up for the edge.
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