Medieval Monk's Knife (MonkWerks)
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- čas přidán 29. 10. 2016
- I have been wanting to do a knife for a while. About a year ago I decided on a design, nine months ago I gathered most of the supplies, in the spring John gave me the wood for the scales, in June I started working on it, and now at the end of October it is finally complete.
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Glad to see you back in the shop :D
Very nice! And, the Truffle Shuffle made me lol.... memories man! ROOT, ROOT.... BAYBEE ROOT!
+GP Woodworks The 80s were an awesome time for memorable quotes.
Beautiful finished product...
That surely is a quite beautiful renditionof a monk's knife
Glad you're back and with a cool knife project to boot! :)
Nicely done! I really like your belt sander sharpening guide.
+Wood 'n' Stuff w/ Steve French Thanks, I'm like trying to figure out ways to make things a little simpler.
Very nice. I really like the walnut for the handle. Can't wait to see the sheath.
+Rick Williams It certainly is a beautiful piece of walnut, thanks.
I like the design of the knife a lot and think that it turned out very nice!
+Maurice Blok Thanks! I'm glad I found the design ... I guess there was a reason they used that design 600 years ago; it's quite functional.
Nice shape to the blade, good for most work, good to see you back.
+Tim White I found the design several months ago searching for monk knives, and have since noticed that it was a common, medieval design ... probably because it is versatile. It needed to cut your food, a piece of rope, branches, whatever.
Father, fantastic project. You are scaring me with those loose sleeves and the power tools.
+Eugene Jr. Folse Thank you for watching. I'm not worried about my sleeves because I know where my sleeves are and the moving parts of the machine.
Always enjoy your videos!
nice to see you back in the shop cool knife
+SearingCustomGuitars Thanks. I have another project filmed too, I just have to get it edited down.
Nice work, and its good to see you back, I have always enjoyed your content.
+Brian Lasch Thanks, I have a few more projects up my sleeve right now. So I'm hoping to keep pumping out good content.
Beautifully done, glad to have you back, you have been missed.
Excellent...
Cheers...
Well done
Very well done. Thanks you for sharing this experience.
If I may suggest....
The next time - and hopefully not - you need to fill a gap in wood, just mix a bit of the wood's
sawdust with glue or and putty it into the gap. Sand when completely dry and it will be barely
noticeable, if at all.
And I like your use of tung oil it darkens the wood but that's part of its beauty as it enhances
contrast.
This is just a tip about something other than the knife, per se. In my job as a structural engineer, I turn raster images into vector images all the time. The way I do it is to get a jpeg or scanned image of the object, then import it into QCad. (There is a free, open-source version of QCad, so one doesn't have to purchase a license unless one wants a much larger suite of capabilities.) Within QCad, I trace over the lines and arcs of the object using the drawing tools. After that's done, I delete the original raster image. If your object is not properly scaled -- say your knife is 22 feet long -- then you can easily scale it to the proper size using QCad's modification tools. The advantage of having a CAD or vector version of your object is that you can easily scale it for other uses. Say that you wanted to make a new knife with the same proportions, but 2 inches longer. You could easily scale it up to a new size, then plot it at its full scale.
+Tom Nally I was just listening to the latest Making It podcast, and Jimmy and Bob were talking about using, I believe it was Fusion. Programs like that sound like they would be extremely helpful, especially if your doing production work ... though its also a pain when you change a dimension on a one-off piece and you have to redo practically everything in Sketch-Up! With the name QCad, I assume it's similar to other cad programs?
MonkWerks with Fr. Thomas Yes, QCad is merely a 2D CAD program, available at www-dot-qcad-dot-org. It has now become my "go to" CAD program. One reason is that it will run from a thumb drive.
It's great to see another woodworking tutorial from you again! I like the knife and the methods you used to make it were really interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
+John Kelley I've missed being in the shop and interacting with the community too.
Nice job!
Welcome back Father, we have really missed you.
+UK Tony Glad to be back, and I'm looking forward to making more content.
Nicely done! I really like the shape.
Nice work, congratulations Fr.Thomas, a very beautiful music, by the way. Greetings from Spain and thanks for this video.
Excellent project Father. Good to see a Monk packin' :D
Nice work, I like the unique shape. And I always love your captions in the video!
+Matt Williams Thanks! I loved the shape too, as soon as I saw it from the illumination I knew I wanted something similar.
Fr.Thomas it is so good to see you back in the shop,i think you had mentioned studying abroad in Russia if i'm not mistaken,is there a chance you are going to back in the shop making projects and video every week or two like in the past,because i know you have been missed in the wood working community,all the best to you and yours
+Ron Sanford Studies did get in the way for a while. I am finding more shop time, so hopefully I'll be posting more regularly. I have a long-term project I'm starting that I hope to document.
If you'll take the time to film it we will gladly watch it
nice to see you back lovely knife
+adrian barber Great to be back ... now on to more projects!
Wow, that turned out great. And bonus points for historical accuracy! Thanks for the video, Father.
+Randy Allaway I've seen some other medieval knives with a similar shape in modern recreations and manuscript illuminations. It would be interesting to see how prevalent the design actual was. As a common knife though, there might not be too many physical relics remaining because there were probably made from lesser materials. (Just an assumption though.)
MonkWerks with Fr. Thomas hey, it looked close enough for me! Please note that I am no historian, though. Anyhow, it's good to have you back.
Very nice work Father Thomas. Great music too.
I think John Heisz would be proud! Glad the clenching of the blade didn't warp it.
I'd go with a black leather sheave. Perhaps Jimmy Diresta might have some ideas.
+MRrwmac I actually received a "nice job" from John! A leather sheath is probably more accurate for the time period, but I still have more of that beautiful walnut that I'm tempted to use it.
Looks great Father! I remember my first knife and the satisfaction of completing it. I also had my issues and it wasn't nearly perfect, but it was made by ME. Nice job! Hope you enjoyed the process as much as I did. I learned a lot.
+Paul Meyette That's what I like about making things. Sometimes it even costs more than buying it, but I did that!
nice lookin 👍👍
It came out nice looking! I like the design of it. Its all belly, basically. It would slice well. Now I wish I could get one, haha. God bless!
+traderjoes I can attest that it slices apples extremely well!
Nice knife :)
Looks great. I'll have to make one myself. Peace
+jonh walsh When you do, let me know how it turns out.
GOONIES!!!!!!
+John Gragg Steal from the best!
Remember, St. Benedict said never sleep with your knife. :)
Great looking knife, well done. Very happy to see you back in the shop. Are you going to make a sheath for it?
+Lyle Kobberstad I'm hoping to get a sheath made, just not sure when.
Good looking knife. It seems like a time to make knifes, I've got one roughly edited. I had similar issues heat treating my knife with propane torches, one was a fail and one worked. Looks like a propane and or wood forge should be in the works.
+John Zhu I've been watching a few videos recently on that too. Great minds think a like.
That kind of videos are very amusing to watch, the audio got a little bit difficult to understand, I think maybe the music was just a little bit loud. Thank you for those videos!
Matheus Soares I was trying something different with the audio. Thanks for watching though.
nice one father! now i wanna make a knife...lol look fwd to the sheeth video
I kinda got the bug to do one when I started watching "Forged in Fire," so perhaps someday I'll get to hammer one out too.
MonkWerks with Fr. Thomas forged in fire it I will have to check that out that is a CZcams channel correct? And look fwd to seeing that
It's on history channel
MonkWerks with Fr. Thomas ahh ok.. I noticed they have a CZcams channel but you need to buy each episode for $2 but I will definitely check that out History channel has some interesting things thanks for the FYI
Nice project... really like the way you researched into past to find what a Monk of the past would carry... Maybe I missed in the comments or in your video... Was there a name of the Mock knife from past? Or just "knife" heheheh, Also maybe it's me and my hearing... (it has gotten bad in the last few years) however for me the back ground music over shadow your voice... Other then that I like it.
Have a Blessed week Fr. Thomas.
Thank you for the comment. I was trying a new technique with the voice over, which sounded fine with the headphones but it does give me something to consider going on to the next video.
No worries.. Like I mentioned my hearing from all the years around heavy equipment, and being a Fire Fighter and on an Industrial Emergency response team... I have a hard time hearing voice levels... Funny part is my last test showed I have a hard time hearing a female db level voice... So I can truly say to my wife... she is right I do have selective hearing...
Not a picture of a knife! The picture is of scribes, they are copying books. What you see is not a knife but a feather; in one hand they held a pen to copy, in the other hand, a feather to keep track of the original text.