JJ's Knife Kit Lock Back Wooden Pocket Knife Making Kit | Perfect Beginner Knife Making Kit To Teach Knife Safety | Ages Seven And Up | Made In The USA

My 9-year-old loved this kit, and my jealous 7-year-old got to help make it... You need wood glue (I use Titebond), spring clamps, CA glue (cyanoacrylate, or superglue) and sandpaper to assemble. Don't start until you have those supplies. Everything is cut precisely (I would guess laser cut), and went together easily for my 9-year-old. I put CA glue CAREFULLY into the pre-drilled holes before inserting the pins which hold the knife together (that part's hard for a kid). Sanded at the end to keep everything flush. I felt no need to finish the wood. Safety training... The first thing my son did when closing the lockback is to close the "blade" (i.e., dull wooden blade-shaped piece of wood) right on his fingers! It was an opportunity to show him why that's a bad idea and give him practice on proper closing. The second thing he did was to point the knife at his brother (just pointing, not menacingly)... Another opportunity to show why that is bad, and train him on proper knife handling around people. I also purchased a small lockback (real one) on Amazon, which he will receive in a couple of months. It's the same size as the wooden knife, so it will be a perfect transition. (Then the 7-year-old will get the wooden knife for a couple of years.) Overall great quality wooden lockback pocket knife for training, with a nice aluminum case. **** UPDATE 7/26/19 **** As of today (1 year and 6 months after first use), accidentally going through 2 loads of laundry, being dropped a number of times from a height of about 12', being used to mutilate dead sticks, and being run over by a bicycle once, the wooden knife still "exists"... I have found that after a laundry washing the pins can fall out. Easy replacement can be done with any finish nail, placed in with CA glue, then trimmed with a Dremel tool to be flush. Almost time to give the 7-year old (who is now about to turn 9) his first real knife... This wooden knife has allowed for lots of safety training with no risk of injury.

As a carpenter and outdoorsmen I carry a knife daily, recently my son started taking an interest in my knife collection. He is also a cb scout and will have his own pocket knife ne day. I got him this to start teaching him safety and so he could have his own “pocket knife”:when we go hiking or fishing. He loves it! It went together incredibly easy and was a fun little project. The lock works great, it looks great and is very well made. Definitely recommend for little outdoorsmen or outdoorswomen and all around adventurers. Really cool little product all around.

We purchased this for our 4 year old little boy. He loves it and carries it in his pocket daily so that he can be like his daddy .

Kids loved helping assemble. Does require a dab of glue.

Goes together easy but I recommend using glue to hold the small pins in place I bought two of these and one fell apart almost immediately as the pin to hold the "blade" in doesn't fit tightly .

I have a 5 year old that is obsessed with being just like his dad with all his hunting gear and pocket knives. Yes this is recommended for 7 and up but after it is put together there are no choking hazards and we keep a good eye on him. He loves just keeping it in his pocket and showing it to people and the putting it back in. He helped with every part of the assembly and this is so cute for dad and son or anyone to do with a kid. It’s wood so it’s not gonna cut anything and I wouldn’t expect much out of it but I’m happy with it. Highly recommend

Got this for my son to start carrying around. Assembly is a bit of a pain once you get to the last couple of steps, but it's a solid gadget once together. He has abused it quite a bit and the mechanism for opening and closing still functions flawlessly. Nice craftsmanship all around.

This was a fun little project. I spent too much time sanding, finishing, and trying to make it perfect, but I had so much fun working on it and it turned out much better than expected. By the way, I’m 62 years old and a pretty decent armature wood worker. This is just not for kids.