Im a huge roadie in the warmer months and always try to switch to running during winter. I usually make it till around mid December and give up with the running 😂 im sure if i had a running buddy id continue but no one wants to run in the winter 🤷‍♂️ 😉

For japanese knives, look in to wa handles. A common way to do it now days is to build your handle, and bore a hole through the centre all the way down. Then you take a dowel, and you mill a slot that receives the tang of the handle. Then tang goes in to dowel, dowel goes in to handle. You can glue that entire assembly together. Another way to do it (the way i have done), is to mill a slightly undersized hole in to the handle and then heat up the tang of the knife, burning it down in to the handle getting a really tight fit. (there is a lot of variation in how the handles are done because so many people have been making them for so long) The part on top of the blade that many people call a bolster, when on japanese knives, is called a collar. Traditionally, it was made of horn, but now days it is usually just wood or plastic. But for a wa handle, some times they are not glued, and the collar tightens down the rest of the handle on to the tang of the knife. And as far as showing tang or hidden tang and how much should be showing, it is largely dependent on the type of style you are trying to mimic. Eastern japan tends to leave out a larger chunk of the tang than the western part. Northern and southern japan also have some different techniques on the whole ensemble but most of these elements are just dependent on the aesthetic you are trying to produce in your own work. Hope this helps anyone looking for info. (Disclaimer: I have only been making Japanese knives for like a year and knives in general for about two years so if anyone knows better, feel free to correct me)

Man, getting back into that everyday swing, nice!!! Man, I'm 47, but feel like I'm 80... I am careful with everything i do...years of living like an idiot caught up with me 4 years ago & I had an infection from my arm go to my heart, I had to have open heart surgery... that is when everything changed, funny how facing death makes you appreciate life... that's when i started making knives... It's funny, I became on of those "I didn't start living till I was in my 40's" guys, hahaha Have a great day, take it easy...

also another "more traditional" way is to simply drill an undersized hole, heat the tang to glowing red and "burn it in" simply shoving the tang down the hole usually takes a couple times but it will be a perfect fit.

I’ve just gotta say I absolutely love your work

You know how I measure for the tang slot in my bolsters? I draw my X to find my center, then cross that with a +, then I lay my blade on its side centering the tang on my center, then I mark the width. Then stand it on end and mark the length of the hole. Hopefully that makes sense, and it's a lot less confusing than mathing it all up, lol

Really love the design of that blade.

Type in "rehandling a Japanese knife " on KZfaq. There's several. No epoxy. No fine tuning. The tang is heated then burned into the rough shaped handle slot. The idea is a good blade will be rehandled many times in it's lifetime. Epoxy makes it a nightmare. Also look up removing a Japanese knife handle - it will make the Japanese style of handle replacement jaw droppingly uderstandable and facinating. I've rehandled 9 Japanese kitchen knives with home stabilized maple burl and ebony guards and an octagon profile with great results. Great vid Jeremy 😃

I like the camera angles on this video. Great job.

Had to say I did appreciate you putting in the clip of you taking the spill lol. But good on you for putting in the work to improve your health. Love the start of this build!

Very nice work sir

Love your Work Jeremy, you inspired me to make my first knife, a kiridashi marking knife from a file, just finessing the polish and I'm planing to send over a pic! thanks for the time you put on your content!

Love love the intro music 🎼🎵🎶 Reminded me of a certain Canadian situation comedy!!!🤔 This was great and fun video... that blade is a beauty!!!!👍👍👍👍👍 Thank you Jeremy for such great content 🤠👌

The sample knife you were looking at looks like the light coloured wood goes right to the blade and the dark sleeves over top of it. My one thought was that on your knife, the main part of your handle doesn't have that much of the tang in it. Epoxy Is strong and so it may be ok. Also, you have the sample knife in your hand I only see the video, so I could be mistaken.

Nice to get some of the information on how you do what you do. Kinda sucks having a cliff hanger though. lol Cant wait to see this knife done. :)

so stoked for all the videos!!!! would love to see the surface finish texture video you were talking about during the EDC build along. Keep up the stellar work buddy.

Thanks for your videos! I always learn a ton. What RPMs on your end-mill do you use when flattening wood?

Thanks Jeremy! Working on my first hidden tang chef knife as we speak. This process was making me nervous.

Hey Jeremy. I have found that when you slip and fall, if people laugh at you, they still consider you young. If you slip and fall and people rush over and ask if your OK, then I'm sad to say you are considered old. Lol

Some Japanese makers use Bee's wax to fit the handles too.

Watch Walter Sorrels videos on Japanese kitchen knives. His sushi knife build should answer all your questions. He is kind of a reasonable purist (meaning he respects the tradition but if there are better ways of doing things he will show you that as well).

Thanks for explaining how to get your measurement's correct

Some japanese knives have a tang burned into the handle and some use a rod (looks almost like a round clothespin) with the middle of it cut out to go around the tang of the blade and drill the handle the same diameter as the rod. There are quite a few tutorials on KZfaq to learn how to do japanese handles. The way you do it is one of the easiest because it works every time. I’ve ruined a few handles trying to burn the tang into the handle. I like your way keeping the bolster separate and giving yourself some slack to fit the rest of the handle.

First off love your channel. I learned a lot about hidden tangs from this video. Hopefully will start making my own knives soon.

Awesome knifes. Learning so much. Great hobby. Just wished I had more time. Thanks for the video. Keep up the good work👍👍

when it takes 2 min to get down and 10 min to get back up... thanks for the tip on getting down quicker, now just need a quicker way to get up.😁 onya gramps

Whenever I see measurements like this I am reminded how lucky I am to be living in a Metric country.....mm are so much easier to manage for this scale.

Excellent tips on measurements for new people like me 🔥🖤🔥

so what I know about real tradtional japanese handel fit up is that they hammer the handel on the tapered tang and the second piece of the handel is often made from horn so that, if you hammer the handel on to the tang, the wood does not split. thats also like a chisel handel is made and they burn the tangs in the wood to create a more snug fit sorry for the bad english Iam from germany

Jeremy, I believe they use rice paper to lock the handle to the blade. Oh and I love that bolster. Very nice

Great use of something that was an “ooops” I hate throwing away anything that can be repurposed! Also I sent you some pics a while back when you were thinking about 2”x72” belt storage. Anyway I’ve got a couple of videos on KZfaq now, one is of my grinder bench and fold away belt storage if your still interested.

Great video Jeremy, you have an excellent way of instructing and passing across information. But MAN am I glad I work in mm....That freedomheit malarky is too mad!

Aren’t Japanese knives and swords like Walter Sorrel’s “thing”? I’m sure he’d know about traditional handle fixing methods. Also about the round versus hexagonal or octahedral cross sections. Lookin good though!

Looks like they got the neck of the handle just wide enough for the tang, and then used a wood "ferrule". Of course they had to go and make the mating surfaces oval, but I'd just bore round holes.

My god... Dude this video was sooooo helpful... Especially with tye step by step explanations... For people like me who are just petty enthusiasts and no where professional but want to make stuff like you do... This video was soooooo helpful... I have made three knifes and my dad is hell bent on fitting just regular handles.. But i just want to be a little bit pro.... So really thanks man... Pls keep making more videos like these and yeah loved the vlog like beginning too😎😎😎😎

hey there! what was that tool called that you used for the hole to scrape? a broche is what you said?

I know the struggle of matching the japanese-style handle to the blade, since I have no mill it is always a pain in the rear-lower-part of my back :'D So nice job there, I look forward to see more of that knife (stabilized poplar-burl is also one of my favorites)! Cheers from germany

One more year and I hit the big 40. I've been slipping back into being very aware of eating right and exercising like I did a few yrs ago. Loving that color 👌 combination on the handle. Curious what the white spacer material is and what website?

Sanjel!

Why do you mill the outside faces of the handle when you are going to grind them later?

Are you using a special tape at 4:19, or will any tape do?

What are the dimensions?

Engineers always over complicate things, lol. I just mark my center and then mark out the dimensions only my tang, no math required :)

I took a tumble just this morning. It was the damnedest thing, I was carrying an armload of groceries in, and, right as I was stepping up onto the porch, I somehow lost my footing on the top step, and tumbled butt first in between the hedges and the house's outer wall, which is covered in Confederate Jasmine vines. I fell in such a way as I was basically trapped between the wall of Jasmine and the hedge. I could not move. I was tangled in vines on one side, and, a densely packed hedge on the other. "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!" It took me all of about five minutes to extract myself from that mess. Then, as if I needed even more fun, I had to crawl back in to retrieve a couple of grocery bags. *DOH!* 🤦 Fortunately for me, my neighbors weren't up and out yet, so, all of my embarrassment was self generated. Didn't need to hear any uproarious laughter from across the street to trigger even more embarrassment. Dude, gettin' old SUCKS!

Have you checked out Murray Carter, he is an American that lived in Japan and became a Master Japanese Bladesmith... he hasn't done videos in a long time, but his old videos are pretty awesome

the traditional "WA" handles are simply a dowel usually about 3/8 that is cut lengthwise for most of it, 3/8 hole drilled in the handle and the tang tapped into the slot which wedges tight. I'll shoot you some pics via Instagram if you like.

Damn, i was almost first tody. Lol

I get a headache from all .444 & 100th of 48th of 383th of .6543 hahaha sry but I'm metric :)

Jeremy - what do your tattoos say? It's been killing me to try and read them. Thanks!!!

hı :) again 1st

I don't understand why knife makers often create a "deadfall" trap in their shop by clamping pointy knives straight out in to their workspace. As if no one has ever slipped, tripped, or stumbled in a shop before.

That's a nice tight fit and going to make a great looking bolster.

Look at KZfaq

AvE just reviewed your height gauge

Go tubeless bro!

is that necklace a c-clamp? wtf...?

You too much talking tbh Not even single handle installed