JJ's Knife Kit LockBack Wooden Pocket - Great for teaching p

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.

These are very nice laser cut wood kits i have 2 of each of 3 kits but it would be nice if the blades were shaped with a thinner cutting edge and not just flat. But i guess a little sand paper and it can be done

I ordered this item very early before my sons birthday, after he received it he was literally able to mess with it 2-3 times before it fell apart in multipolar places.. the wood even cracked in half.

This was a fun project for my 3 yo and husband to do together. They assembled it together pretty easily. My son was so excited he had a knife just like daddy. He used it everyday for a week and kept it in his back pocket. Then, it broke. And some of the pins were lost. He might have forced it or threw it, I didn't see how it broke, and my little guy is pretty rough on things. So maybe its better for an older kid or someone who is gentle on their things.

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.