Tools and materials I propose:
In this video I make a palette knife out of a nail, a spatula, copper pipe and wood. This a pretty interesting tool used in a very impressionistic painting technique.
First of all I made a small paper template of the knife’s spatula part. I used the metal from a spatula I bought from the hardware store. The spatula needs to be flexible in order for the palette knife to work.
I then cut the shape of my spatula using a rotary tool and a metal cutting disc.
The spatula needs to be polished. You can do that using sand paper, sharpening stones or a sharpening system like my Tormek. The final polishing you can do on a leather strop. You can also use a buffing wheel with honing compound on your rotary tool.
Next I cut a nail and bended it with heat. To connect the spatula with the nail I used silver solder. Heat and flux pull the solder towards them.
I then cleaned and polished the metal parts again.
As a handle you can use a handle from another tool. But I turned one out of beech.
I epoxied a piece of coper pipe in front. Once I finished the handle I epoxied the metal parts in the handle.
This is a really interesting technique. It works better with oil paints because thy are pretty thick and dry really slow. But that was it. See you soon with a new project video.
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