how to make a knife for bark carving

I'll now show you how to make a little knife for carving in bark, you can't carve wood with it, but it is the best thing i have ever used for making a bark boat. it is a very easy knife, toked me about 20 minutes to do.

Step 1 Getting the blade

The first step is to get a thin piece of metal. this is a street sweeper bristle You can find metal pieces like this lying on the street beacose.
they fall/break off the scrubber brushes on the bottom of the street sweeper as it cleans the roads. but every hard, long, thin iron piece will do fine.

Comments

[sjoobbani]

This is great! you could also go to an outdoors store and get those roasting scures, they are the exact same as the bristle thing, except bent into a small loop at the bottom, I sharpened thos and used em.

[pumpkinman]

nice idea! but was'in it hard to sharpen it when it was bent?

[sjoobbani]

no quite easy

[absolute zero]

use a round file, the ones they use for chainsaw blades

[sharlston]

make a instructable on a bark boat please

[pumpkinman]

ok I'll do it as soon as possible but it is quite hard to find a good piece of pine bark

[absolute zero]

o.0 bark boat? do i smell an 'ible coming on?

[pumpkinman]

huh?

[absolute zero]

what is a bark boat?? u shud make an 'ible

[pumpkinman]

okey but what is an 'ible?!

[absolute zero]

instructable

[Shark500]

those are street sweeper bristles. they fall/break off the scrubber brushes on the bottom of the street sweeper as it cleans the roads. you can make nice tension wrenches out of them (for lock picking) you should do an instructable on the bark boat. i am very impressed by it. nice ob and don't forget spell check *use firefox*

[pumpkinman]

ooh i did not know that tanks I'll change it right away. the bark boat is extremly easy to make whit the knife.