My 7 year olds knife

Beile

Beile

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No, although it does look like it, my seven year old didn't make it. I made it today because he was breathing down my neck to make him a knife. Old car spring and lacewood, 5 3/4" long, left over stuff from my last knife. The tip and edge have been ground down but when I stretch a piece of paper tight enough and he slashes at it, it rips and he thinks it's sharp.
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Thanks! I still have to get to Petco to get those beautiful bones you used, if it's OK to steal your idea.
 
just curious, why leave it blunt? my 6 year old little brother has a few knives that I keep sharp enough to shave for him, figure it's better to instill respect for the knives now. seems to me that a blunt knife would simply make it that much more likely he'll cut himself when he gets a sharp one, and yes we do supervise him when using his knives but most of the time he's not aware or it and he's very good with them, b/c he learned it hurts when you're not :D
 
I second the keep it sharp movement :P used to take old butter knives and grind them down on stones from the drive untill I had a nice sharp pointy knife. a lot more swagger rights to having made your own knife than the other boy across the street with a swiss army knife his daddy bought him. and yep, we learnt to respect knives as a dangerous tool.
 
I need to go by petco this afternoon.... I've got an order for five of those.... and I dread all that sanding flat:eek: I've looked and looked and can't find bone slabs thick enough....
 
Man thats neato.

I'm a big fan of lacewood. Very nice.
 
"just curious, why leave it blunt? my 6 year old little brother has a few knives that I keep sharp enough to shave for him, figure it's better to instill respect for the knives now. seems to me that a blunt knife would simply make it that much more likely he'll cut himself when he gets a sharp one, and yes we do supervise him when using his knives but most of the time he's not aware or it and he's very good with them, b/c he learned it hurts when you're not "

"I second the keep it sharp movement :P used to take old butter knives and grind them down on stones from the drive untill I had a nice sharp pointy knife. a lot more swagger rights to having made your own knife than the other boy across the street with a swiss army knife his daddy bought him. and yep, we learnt to respect knives as a dangerous tool."


That's a good question, I remember I had sharp knives since I was 5 years old, it just seems different for him for some reason, It is baseball season and he can't hit with bandaged fingers for one and my wifes new leather couch for two. I do have a sharp knife for him, I do let him use mine but only for when I'm around watching him. I'l re-profile it for him when we go camping. This one he can pretend with inside or out.
 
I agree with the keep it sharp guys but I also like what blub did. You should teach your kid how to use a sharp knife properly when they are young and let them use one, but until they are a little older, giving them a blunt knife that they can have with them all the time even when not suppervised is a good idea. I have similar beliefs when it comes to guns. I plan on teaching my kids how to shoot when they are young, but they won't actually get there own gun until they are older.

Teach them when they are very young, and when you are confident in there ability and level of responsibility usher them into adulthood with a real quality knife of there own.

Also, only a childs parent can judge when there child is mature enough to handle a certain responsibility, whether it be owniing a knife or a gun or just letting them cross the street by themselves. While some children mature very quickly others do not and it is the parents responsibility to decide when they are mature enough.
 
Well put, know what's funny? I heard him in the family room slashing paper and saying "whoa this is sharp!" I went in about 5 minutes later and he has blood on his hand, so I'm just looking confused, scratching my head thinking how did he do that? He got a giant paper cut! then says, "Dad, this paper is sharper than my new knife."
 
The one I did for my son for easter is sharp on the blade but not the tip, so far my son is doing okay with it under close supervision. He's only 4, but he's extremely physically adept. Not so much on the reading thing, guess there is always a balance. And we've been careful to not allow any immersion in 'violence' culture yet. He'll learn about cutting meat when we hunt, and shooting when we get there, but until I've got a decent martial arts school lined up we just aren't going to the "play" violence versus "real" violence learning. He watches my classes- and his mom's aikido, but.... well. No playing war yet.

BUT- *you* know your kids. There are kids at church older than my son that I wouldn't give a sharp knife to even under supervision. There's no score, no one wins if one kid starts riding a bike earlier, or has a knife. The right timing is the right timing.

MUCH nicer looking than my poor attempt :)
 
Thanks Koyote! Church? Hunting? Martial Arts? Are we talking about Davis CA? I thought those kinds of things were outlawed there!:D
 
Well, there's 3 Davis' in Davis. I'm in the middle one. (as in extreme hippie, extreme yuppie, and frugal semi-rural people just living real lives) :)
 
Like others have said I would make it sharp and let him use it. I would be more concerned about loss of the knife. A child's first knife is a learning curve for them. They will quickly learn respect for the sharp edge, but loss of knife is highly likely to happen. Make sure that it is a knife that can be replaced and not one that is dear.

My father made that mistake by giving me his handmade knife from WW2. I loved that knife I was about 6 or 7 years old at the time, and it did not take long to lose that knife. Big lesson was learned here the wrong way, as now it is almost 50 years later and it bugs me when I think about it.
 
And my son has his first bandaid. inside of the thumb, classic slipping cut!

He very solemnly told me that in the future, when cutting radishes in the garden, he woould hold the knife and radhises with his hands "on top!"
 
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