Fancy Hardwood Butter Knives

[evansd2]

My take:

Another butter knife

[image] I’m not one to turn down a good bandwagon… but I wanted a more traditional design. [image] Blade is 1/16” hickory clad with raw cherry veneer, a homemade thin plywood. If you look along the blade edge where I “sharpened” it you can see the hickory and Cherry border. It’s subtle but I like it. [image] The handle is 1/8” black walnut with an inlaid padauk flower. Overall length 7.5”. It was important to me that it feels nice in the hand so I rough-shaped the handle with a Dremel and…

[gvarosky]

That looks amazing, love the inlay! Wow!

[tjleasa]

For family Christmas this year we are to give “one of our favorite things” in white elephant type gift exchange. So I had to make a few butterknives to give away.

Thank you again for great pattern.

[gvarosky]

You are most welcome! Thanks for sharing, glad to hear it is of use and interest to everyone! Merry Christmas!

[kelley1]

Beautiful, and they work. I’d be thrilled if a white elephant like that showed up in my mailbox!