Hello, I'm Alan Newbury
and today we're going to take the hook knife for making wooden spoons and
We are going to do some silver wire inlay into the wooden handle
This is a fun process and it's really not that difficult
But it requires some specialized tools and you'll see me using them here in this video
So let's go ahead and take a look and see how that's done. I
Like to start off by putting on the pattern and
usually what I do is just draw it on with a pencil I can erase it if I don't get it just right and
Then I can redraw it to how I like it
you can also see that I have a little bit of a thinner wire that's already been inlaid in there and
I just for the interest of time didn't do both parts
here I have a thicker wire that is dead soft and
On a thicker wire you can use dead soft on the thinner wire. You're gonna want to have half-hard
Because if it was dead soft
It would want to fold over really easy
It being thicker kind of helps that to not happen as much but it's still something to look out for
the different types of wire are
Are kind of work better in different circumstances a nice thin wire can look pretty and then a thick wire
can
Provide a nice contrast and the softer wires can go around the curves the curvature of your handle better
so here I'm just pushing the blade in and
kind of rocking it a little bit there and just kind of starting it in the previous hole and
Then I'll kind of go through and make sure that I've got
any like kind of little bits that that's all pushed down to the same debt and
This handle is just a jewelers handle that has had an exacto knife
with the handle kind of shortened and then insert it into the jeweler's handle and then the blade is reshaped to
Have kind of a flat portion
of
different widths
because those nice thin bits are
Are good for going around corners? And then if you have a straight spot a nice wide blade is good
So here I'm just cutting the silver wire which I had already sand and you just saw it. I do I'm using the same sample
220 grit just to kind of rough up the sides of the st. Of the silver wire so that it'll want to grip
the wood a little better than if it was just perfectly smooth and
Then I'm just inserting it in there all of these
Pieces of silver wire in this particular design are all straight and they're all small
So I'm cutting them out beforehand if you watch my previous video on
Silver wire inlay, I do more curves because I'm in laying a snake
So snakes got a lot of curves and it also has a lot of long pieces. These are all short little pieces
So I do it a little bit different here. So you may want to go back and take a look at that and see the
Equipment a little bit better in that video as well
And so right here, I'm going to do the same thing. I kind of
Insert it in the previous hole a little bit just start it in there and then rock it over
Until I'm starting the new cut and it's all just pushed straight down. You're not removing any wood
You're you're just kind of poking a slit into it. Later
We're going to swell that wood back up so that it will kind of close that hole and grab onto the silver
So there you go another little piece just getting hammered in there and it went in nice
Now what you may not see is sometimes it doesn't work as well
Sometimes maybe the wire starts folding over and you can kind of push it back straight maybe once or twice
if it keeps doing it, you're probably gonna be better off just putting in a new wire cuz it may break in half or
Have a kink in it or something like that
There we go
And we'll put in another little piece if you try to put in a piece and it looks a little too short
well
Just throw it off and you can melt it later and make something else
if you have it a little long, then you can just trim it a little more and
In this case, I'm using these tweezers to help me get it in there. You can push it down in with your tweezers maybe or
You can push it in with your finger some just to get it started
it's kind of tricky with these little tiny pieces because there isn't really much to hold on to if it was a long piece you
might just start
one end with your hammer and then keep holding on to it and kind of tap your way down the line but with these little
Tiny guys, it kind of all has to go in at once
But
It's a pretty cool little design here. This is actually a design
based off of Burmese star tortoise
I'm going to talk more about those in a subsequent video and probably a little bit more at the end of the video as well
Now I'll talk a little bit about
The wire with the wire there are different sizes I the really thin stuff is
Kind of tricky and it's real easy for it to fold over
so you're gonna want to have a half hard type wire and even then it's it's really tricky and
Then a little bit thicker you
can have the half hard and then half hard is really nice and that it's kind of springy and resists kinking and
Getting like little little bins in the wire so you can make a nice smooth curve real easily
So I think it's really cool for scrolls. If you have a nice kind of flattish surface, it's really good for that
But it doesn't really like going around the curvature of your handle
So if you're going from like a the flattest part there
Like in this star and then maybe if you try to go a little bit more around the corner there
it's it's gonna be kind of a steep angle and that
Wires not going to want to bend around that angle as much so if you use a dead soft wire
it will want to go around the
curvature of your handle a little better and
that
Dead soft wire though. You're gonna want to have a little bit thicker wire and
that will help to resist it folding over because it's a little bit wider and
So I'm kind of starting to like that thicker dead soft wire as opposed to
the
thinner half hard wire
But it really comes down to like what what are you putting it in if it was in a flat surface?
I probably used the half-hard slightly thinner wire all the time
but on knife handles I tend to at some point have to kind of go around a
little bit of a curve on my handle and
Having having the dead soft wire is is really a benefit for that
So that's kind of something. I've I've been experimenting a little bit with different
Sizes and thicknesses and hardnesses of wire and that's just something I've kind of picked up lately
If you see here what I'm using for
Underneath that. It's just a little lead shot bag
In leather, and it just helps me to to have a nice firm
Spot to rest the knife some people will use a
Graver ball or a jeweler's vise
you see those kind of rotating vices and if you look at Joe Keesler, he kind of popularized a making a
One of those rotary type vices. They're a ball of ice out of a bowling ball with a vise attached to it
And then you set that into a lawnmower
Tire and
It makes for a pretty cool
multi positioning type vise
but I find for the knife handles that just kind of resting it on a bag or even
Propping up a few has worked. Well for me. I'm not doing a whole lot of real fast
Scroll turns, you know, it's I can I can position myself a little more easily on this work. It's not super
Superfast I'm not having to follow a curve as I'm making a scroll like you would when you're engraving
But here it is sped up so you can see
the rest of this wire going in and
This this is a pretty cool pattern. I mentioned that it was on Burmese star tortoise has this
six pointed star
is kind of the
reference shape for the geometric pattern that is on a Burmese star tortoise, which is a
critically endangered tortoise from Myanmar and
it's it's actually a type of tortoise that I keep and
I'm
Really enjoying the pattern that they have and here you can see that pattern right there
it's a lovely pattern and I'm planning on making some knives and
Selling them I probably gonna make one knife and do a YouTube video and
Sell it with the proceeds going to that
to
Tortoises and turtles as there were some of the more endangered animals out there
Anyway, so right here, what I'm doing is I'm wetting the wood
And that helps that grain
That you kind of split apart with the tool
To kind of close back up and the heat also helps with that process helps to swell that
That grain back up. I've used a hairdryer and this is a heat gun, but I'm not using it on its hottest setting and
least or if I do use the hottest sitting I make sure I don't do it too long because you can burn the wood and
Then after you do that you sand that back down. I'm just using a 220 grit sandpaper that I was using earlier and
then you just sand that down flat and
You will have basically finished your
Silver wire inlay after you've done that but you know
That's not like a really great finish for the wood or even a great finish for the silver because 220 grit still
While it's smooth to the hand, it does show scratches and it's not as nice of finishes. I like to have
So then what you'd want to use is maybe some true loyal or @ tung oil I'm using a form B's product here
and so I
like to
To raise the wood grain first. So I put a little water on there and raise the wood grain everywhere
So not just on
the
one half I do the whole side, but I actually am
Going to do some more silver wire inlay on the other side
So I'm only kind of giving an example on the finish and then I use some
triple lot
Stained steel wool to remove the grain that has been raised with the water
And then now I am implying some finishing product. In this case. It's form bees. You could use true oil
some sort of a tung oil type product and then you'll want to get on a nice thin layer and
Then you let that dry
So just get in make sure you get it everywhere, but don't put too much if you put too much
It'll take forever for it to dry
And this is a type of product where you really need to put on several coats the more coats you look the shinier
It's gonna get so there's my first coat then after that
I'm going to take some more of that steel wool and
Then I'm going to rub it again. And this is going to help to kind of scuff up that previous
Application so that some stuff will stick on top of that and it help
Doing this kind of repeatedly fills the pores of the wood to help get a nice shinier finish
so the more times you do this the shinier, it's gonna get I
Think for this one. It's a carving type tool signle
Did it a couple times then we have a tortoise that I inlaid on the other side
I mentioned that this design was based off of a Burmese star tortoise in the future
what I am going to do is make a knife and
Include
one or more of these two designs probably may just be the six point star and
Then I'm going to sell that with proceeds going to
tortoise and turtle conservation
So thanks for watching and look forward to more of these videos on that knife sometime in the future
I still have to design and make that knife and
then
If you enjoy the silver wire inlay
Please check out my other silver wire inlay book and if you like this knife check out my knife
making video of this knife
spoon carving hook knife
It's gonna show you how it was all done without using any forging all stock removal and thanks for watching
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