After the heat - treating, it's time to test the knife for hardness on a machine called Rockwell scale, after which Van Wyk and Snyder attach what will become the handle to the blade and grind it down from a block of
wood (or block of epoxied and
compressed fabric,
as the case may be).
Examples of these are works such
as the melted shelf made of bronze and patina, Dodge (2012), the chair stamped in a block, Angst / Lache Hochgebirge, and Toilet made of
compressed wood and resin (both of 2014), the exaggeratedly huge clock, Lost (2015), the cabinet that seems to have been bashed in, First Ascent — North Wall (2016), among others.