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Home > Tutorials and eBooks > Scruby: Make a Knife Using Hand Tools

Making a Knife Using Hand Tools

by
John Scruby

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About the tutorial...

• Explains the entire process of making a knife from start to finished - step by step - with detailed instruction and more than 120 supporting photographs.
• In printed format - easily transported to the workshop for use as a bench guide
• Comes with complimentary access to additional photographs in colour which assist in explaining exactly how the normalising, hardening and tempering processes are carried out.
• An item of exceptional value, the tutorial is an entire book, priced at a fraction of the cost of a commercially published edition, and in terms of quality - it beats a fair number of them!
• Lazer printed, thermally bound, 45 pages 80gsm, 120+ black and white photos.
• Reader comment: "An excellent tutorial which shows a detailed step by step process - a clear example of a excellent teacher at work..."

The completed knife
About the author: John Scruby is a full-time carer and very experienced knife maker. When he is able, he takes his leisure by producing works of art in his knife-making workshop. From the elegant proportions of one of his kitchen paring knives, to the strength and vitality of a hunter or a falconer's knife - John applies his masterly skills of hand-working metal to produce an item which is both functional and beautiful.