Young knifemaker at work

[Atlas Knife Company]

A couple weeks back I took this picture of my son grinding on a blade. Graham is almost 12 and loves hand-sanding. He doesn't really like grinding though. I'm thinking of making a knife vise and showing him how to use a file. I think he'd enjoy it more than grinding.

Here's the first knife he made. Not the one that he was grinding on above. It will be knife #2. Graham has a perfectionist's eye and decided he wanted to start over and use stainless.

 

[Bruce Culberson]

Graham is almost 12 and loves hand-sanding.

Get him to hand sand as many of your blades as you can before he finds out that it sucks


Just kidding. On a serious note it's good to see you getting your boy involved:thumbup:

Bruce

 

[Atlas Knife Company]

We have an agreement: I'll grind out the blades and handles and he will hand sand them. He hopes to make 3 knives this year and sell them for spending money. He was suppose to have this one done by spring break but it didn't happen. I suspect that as summer approaches he will want the spending money a little more and be more inspired to finish them.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Awesome!

That is a nice knife, he did a really great job on it.

 

[Mitchell Knives]

That's really cool.

Wish I had started making knives when I was 12!

 

[Atlas Knife Company]

I want to get his skills developed before he starts drooling over girls. At that point he'll probably want to take a 6 year hiatus, hehe. He told me yesterday that now that I have an anvil, he wants to start swinging a hammer!