Whittling Knife

This whittling knife is made from a flattened branch of softwood (it’s very porous and soft to the touch) and the small knife blade from a multitool. The blade is fitted inside a split in the handle, the bottom screwed to the handle and the top side secured with a small hose clamp (the metal band).

A whittling knife like this is really good for several reasons:

1. The large handle gives you great leverage
2. The smallness of the blade gives you more power and control
3. Because the blade is so short, the thumb of your lesser hand can brace on the handle (no more aching thumbs from bracing on the backside of the blade)
4. You can comfortably hold it in most any position, as opposed to a knife that’s part of a multitool

If I had to make this again I would definitely make the handle a bit fatter. It’s comfortable to hold as it is, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a bit more meat on it.

The bad thing is that this looks ignominiously like a shank, the sort that a convict in a rough prison would make and smuggle, as I painfully found out one day, the events too complex to elaborate on.

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