Making a Puukko File Knife

This is our 10th video and we are truly grateful for all who have watched, subscribed, liked, and commented.
This time I am making a puukko style carving knife from an old metal file for my father-in-law. I’ve combined black walnut, and a brass bolster with birch back that we found on a family hike while visiting my in laws in Vermont, to make the handle. The blade started from a file that I then drew out with some forge work to taper the blade then ground the bevels in with my 1x30 inch grinder.
All in all it turned out better than I could have hoped and I know my father-in-law will love and use it well.
I’m including time stamps below for those viewers who might want to jump around to particular parts of the knife making process. Thank you all so much for a successful first 10 videos and we hope you will continue to join us.

Process Time Stamps:
2:30 Discussing how I built my bucket forge
4:24 Forging the blade out to length
7:35 Shaping the profile and grinding the bevels
11:59 Heat treating the blade
14:03 Tempering the blade
14:40 Finishing grinding the bevels
15:52 Discussing how to convex grind and sharpening
17:05 Filing in the choil
17:32 Preparing the birch bark
19:05 Making the brass bolster
20:12 preparing the black walnut for the handle
21:00 Burning the tang into the handle wood
21:55 Sanding the brass bolster, pre glue-up
23:30 Seating the bolster on the tang
24:12 Gluing up the handle
27:26 Shaping the handle
31:35 Finish polishing and sharpening the blade
32:02 Oiling the handle

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