Crafts: Three for One! Knives (Karambit, Cleaver and Kitchen Knife)

in #art6 years ago

Hello Steemians! I'm drawingwithflare!

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I'm back and today, I show you not 1, not 2, but 3 miniature creations! They all revolve around 1 theme, which is Knives. So I made a Karambit Knife, A Butcher's Knife/ Cleaver, and a Kitchen Knife.

In this craft, I used 80cw sandpaper, glue and superglue, utility knife, vice, pencil and eraser, Black and Silver paint, clear nail polish, and of course the popsicle sticks.

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So we will start with the karambit

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So first, I made two popsicle bases (both are 2×2).

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After that, I draw the karambit on the popsicle base.

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And then, I roughly cut it out from the popsicle base so I can smoothly sand it later.

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And then, I cut and sanded the excess using a Utility Knife and 80cw sandpaper. (Sorry for the quality of this picture, I accidentally deleted the picture with the better quality. Won't do it again)

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Then, I made a hole where you're supposed to put your finger in. Unless your a jacked up rat on steroids then you can hold this karambit.

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Then I sanded it so it would be thinner than handle.

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And then, I did the same thing on the blade.

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Then, I sharpened the blade.

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And then, I painted the all the supposed metal parts black.

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Then, I also painted the handle with a deep dark gray by adding a drop of white paint onto my black paint.

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And then, I coloured the sharpened part of the blade with silver.

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And that's it done!

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This mini karambit is about a few centimetres less than 2 inch.

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Then we move on to the Butcher's knife.

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I started by making a popsicle base that is 3×2

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Then I draw the blade and the handle separately on the base.

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I cut them out in mini quadrilaterals to make them a little more accessible.

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Then I used a utility knife and sandpaper to get the blade and handle in the perfect shape.

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Then I made the connecting piece on the blade a little smaller so it would be easier to get some space out on the handle.

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Then I made the notches on the handle. As you can see I separated them first so I can glue them with the hole in the middle.

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I sanded the blade thin enough to look like a blade, and thick enough to be sturdy and not so fragile.

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The I sharpened the blade.

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Then I stained the handle with my brown paint.

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I painted the blade silver after that.

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Then I glued the handle to the blade.

I didn't just want this to be just the knife so I made a base for it which is a chopping board.

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So I took three popsicle sticks, cut them in half, and glued them in a 3×2 popsicle base.

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Then I cut a mini rectangle out of it.

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I didn't want it to have sharpedges, so I cut the edges out.

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Then I rounded them out using some low grade sandpaper.

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Then I cut a small notch on the chopping board to make way for the knife.

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Then I glued the knife onto the chopping board base I made.

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And I used clear nail polish to get a smooth finish. And that's it done!

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It's a little more than 2 inches in length and approximately 1 inch in height.

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Then we go onto the Kitchen Knife. So I started by getting one popsicle base for the blade and two popsicles on top of one another for the handle.

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Then I draw the blade and handle onto the popsicle bases.

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Then I both cut them out of the bases.

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Then I cut the notches for the connecting piece to go onto.

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And then I sanded the blade as thin as I can without it breaking.

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Then I glued the handles together.

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After that, I sharpened the blade.

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And I painted it with silver.

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Then I stained the handle with brown paint mixed with a bit of water.

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And then I glued them together finishing the knife.

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But I'm not contented so I took five small popsicle pieces. Glued four of them by twos and cut the other one in half. I glued the half pieces nearly in the middle.

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Then I cut a diagonal line on the bottom. I also made another piece the same as the two main pieces but with a cut in the middle that the blade can perfectly fit in.

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So I glued the pieces.

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Then I cut another diagonal on the smaller portion of the knife holder to act as a support and not dead weight.

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And then I cut a small piece of a popsicle that will perfectly fit on the bottom of the knife holder as a smooth surface.

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And then I used clear nail polish for a smooth finish on both knife and the holder.

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And it perfectly fits!

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The knife is 2.25 inch long and the holder is 1. 30 inch high.

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So what do you think? Do you like this format with Three creation at once or the more consistent one per post? I will try to keep it like this but it won't be daily. And also sorry for the lack of content for nearly two weeks. I kinda just took a bit of a break from uploading so sorry about that. So yeah, see you on the next one, Ciao!

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Thank you so much! My name has been Flare and Bye!!!

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