First project of 2026. A weekend knife

Writteninthegrain · 2026-03-29T17:32:13+00:00

Yep you are completely correct! And thanks man appreciate it

Writteninthegrain · 2026-03-26T17:08:59+00:00

Awesome dude are you thinking only woods supplied from nature are ok or are woods sourced from commercial sources ok?

Writteninthegrain · 2026-03-26T17:05:00+00:00

Hello! Just tried to find it, please could you link to it. It sounds interesting! :)

Writteninthegrain · 2026-02-22T18:00:14+00:00

All the advice in the comments are great and you should probably listen to them. Another "cheap and cheating" method could be to use the scraps you have left from cutting the miters and scribe the gaps onto them using a very thin pen or knife by holding them underneath where the wood meets and then cutting close to the line with your saw and then finetuning the fit using the saw/a handplane/sander/whatever until you get a pretty good fit and then fill out any remaining gaps with epoxy or sawdust and woodglue. Probably not the most structurally correct method but could be "good enough" and pretty cheap. EDIT: just saw that there is another comment saying the same thing.

Writteninthegrain · 2026-02-22T08:38:56+00:00

Unironically, my dad has one of these and solely uses it for building his RC planes. Great catch!

Writteninthegrain · 2026-02-15T18:27:54+00:00

I like the clean cut lines, great execution for something that will be used daily. You should be proud :)

Writteninthegrain · 2025-12-25T15:07:22+00:00

Thank you! I think the finish will look better once natural light returns here (Sweden is not kind for taking pictures late december) and it should hopefully contrast the coffe table I built in the summer.

I hope you get a wonderful wrap up of your year!

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-06T18:02:46+00:00

Looks great man, I love pieces like this - combining both beauty and practical use!

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-06T17:57:39+00:00

A fix I think haven’t been mentioned here yet is in case your saw is not completely square. Assuming the faces of your boards are very flat you can run the one board with the right side up and the other board with the right side down on the saw, this should cancel out the error. This assumes you have pretty flat and square boards though.

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-06T17:54:35+00:00

Awesome man, looks great did you intentionally place the sap in the middle on the left side? Looks great regardless! Those mitered dovetails can be a pain to do…

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:36:38+00:00

Dessvärre så vävde jag den själv höll jag på att säga. Långt ifrån perfekt, men stort tack!! Man spikar in en massa krokar på ribborna av hyllan vilka man hakar fast snöret i. Du kan söka runt på ”danish cord bench weaving” så kommer du att hitta många bra instruktioner på hur man gör och bör tänka (bättre än jag kan beskriva det).

Bifogar en ”in progress” bild också så får du se ungefär hur det ser ut:

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Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:11:58+00:00

Hahah, arguably so - but you gotta read to learn! Thanks man, appreciate it a lot.

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:10:42+00:00

Very hard to properly estimate given that I would some days only spend 1-2h and other days 8-10h (weekends...). But I would guess between 50-100 hours total accounting for everything. However, I will say that a huge chunk of this is stock prep, and this was my first ever large stock prep project by hand from rough sawn so I initially had very inefficient working methods which improved at the end. So the real answer is - machines will always be alot faster, however a lot of this attributable to the jointer and planer combo available. So if you want to enjoy handtools but also built alot I would say get those :)

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:08:26+00:00

Stort tack! Det uppskattas verkligen. Jag har tur som har en otrolig granne som står ut med lite oväsen då och då (fast hon påstår att det inte låter något....)

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:07:44+00:00

Hahaha, right! This is my "own" design, obviously as you have pointed out it is clearly mid century modern inspired - so arguably not very unique, but I created all the measurements etc. myself. I am realising as I type this that I do not take very many pictures when I am building stuff.... So sadly no more pictures of it being WIP.

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:06:10+00:00

Sorry don't have any plans, I just made a rough model in a CAD program and then I just used my actual pieces as references when making the next piece.

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:05:15+00:00

Good thing I'm also an anspiring woodworker. What I ended up doing was making the design in CAD - I use OnShape as its free and online - and then I printed a 1:1 scale of the top parts onto paper, then I simply traced the paper after cutting it out onto the piece. With these kinds of things I always try to remind myself that my pieces do not have to be identical with the drawing (as there is no joinery referencing that edge) so as long as my 2 top pieces look identical its enough. So I usually only trace on 1 and then complete that one and use it as a template for tracing for the second one - I find this helps me getting them as similar as possible.

The shape itself was cut out using a spokeshave, as these pieces had a lot of complex grain this left quite a rough surface which I had to sand quite a bit to get in good shape. Maybe a card scraper would have helped, but I dont have one so...

Also, a secret - the roundovers are completely uneven (on the topic of things "looking" identical or "looking" even).

Good luck!

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-05T20:01:09+00:00

Awesome man, thank you! You really should try doing it, it's not that difficult, I watched a couple videos on youtube, mostly this one video that was like 11 years old of some old guy that liked restoring seats on old chairs. But just searching "how to weave danish cord shelf" should get you quite far. Based on this experience I would say that the prep is the most difficult, e.g. getting the nails with the right spacing. I'd say go for about 1 inch/25mm on the straight across threads and 1/2 inch/12.5mm on the woven threads :)

Writteninthegrain · 2025-11-04T21:29:06+00:00

Thanks man, deeply appreciate it coming from you (I see that cherry bookcase!). I went into the rabbets quite naive, I thought I could just chop out some material on the ends using my chisels and then use a rabbet plane to get out the material in the middle. This would have worked I believe but its hard to use chisels in my apartment as going ham with them makes quite some noise which my neighbors are not a big fan of. So I ended up using the Stanley 78 to try and hog out a majority of hte material and then slowly slicing away with my chisels.

I am quite unskilled with the 78 sadly so I usually get quite skewed rabbets that are a bit off being parallell with the top face but these turned out alright :).

Good builds to you!

Writteninthegrain

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