Bread Bow Knife Template

My wife wanted a bow knife for cutting crusty bread. I didn't really like the designs I was finding and found it is pretty inexpensive to buy only the blades online. I had some walnut in the shop looking to become something useful, so here's where it went. Because the blades came in multipacks I batched out several to give as gifts.

I love how they came out, but I think the first design forces a thinner cut than we'd want at times. At it's thickest it's about it was about 1.25" / 31.75mm. As the frame slopes in it gets even thinner depending on the size of the loaf you're cutting. As such, I created a second design with a much thicker cut, about 3" / 76.2mm.

I have not actually made the thicker design yet. I will post pictures when I do. I have more blades coming. I just need more shop time.

The template is split in half to hopefully fit on most printers. It can be used to trace the shape and is thick enough to be used as a router template if you want to go that route.

The blades I