Making a small craft knife and learning hard lessons
Blogging is difficult. Not the process of sitting down and actually typing but getting all my thoughts in line beforehand, thinking of what I am going to say, even more important, why I want to say those things. It is too easy to complain about everything I struggle with and very hard to find the real value in a day's work. In the following the value lies in the lessons learned and how I will apply them in future projects. I made a small craft knife about a month ago, a very simple design: a small blade with a copper handle folded over a piece of wood. It was nothing special, a knife suitable for use in a studio or workshop environment. The good bit about it is the fitting of the copper to the wooden core which came out really well. I listed it on my Etsy shop, put it in storage and continued with other work. On Monday last week I had to mail a package and on the way home I stopped by a Ginkgo Biloba tree to pick up some leaves for reference. The last leaves I had w
