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Fun little retro project

Second scale found, work stoppage has ended. How he got the other scale under my old briefcase in the spare bedroom I do not know, but there it was.

Next step is to shorten the scales to where a small tab sticks out of the scales. A butt cap will be riveted in place by the old method of peeling the tang ub down over it.

After shortening the scskes will be glued and pinned in place.

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Ok after a week or so of other projects and life in general back to the fun relaxing. The blade is all inletted into one of the handle scales so now it's time to shorten the scales slightly and put the handle together.

first thing is shorten the blade. I taped them together so the cut is flush and even.
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A few minutes with the saw and mitre box and the scales are ready. I use two ton adhesive to attach the handle scales, but will add two pins for a mechanical attachment also. A second mechanical attachment will be the peening/riveting of the tang over buttcap.

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Mix equal parts of epoxy and resin apply liberally and clamp the pieces together. If you look closely you will see a hole drilled into the handle material. I drilled this before starting and thru the tang. I only drilled thru one scale and will drill the other side thru the existing hole and add pins later. The reason for this is so the holes will line up and the pin slide in easily. Now wait for things to dry.


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The glue has set up and time to add in the pins. Simply pick the pin stock you wish to use, yes I know not everyone has a handy supply of various pin stick on hand. Almost any metal rod can be used, preferably something relatively soft, a coat hanger would be perfect and so would a piece of welding rod. I am enamored with nickel silver, German silver, fittings on knives.

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Drill down thru the pin hole you drilled prior and the holes will match up. Then mix some epoxy dip the pin end in and slide it thru. If you desire to rivet the pin in place also leave enough on both sides to peen over. If you desire you can skip the glue entirely and rivet the pin in place. If you do this first drill a small dimple over each pin hole to peen down into.

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Let this dry then you can start filing the handle to shape. Adding the butt plate will be near the end but before final finishing.
 
If you look close you can see the tang widening to "rivet" the butt cap in place. Lots and lots of light controlled whacks with a light hammer. Controlled so yoy do not hit and mar the buttplate too badly, make less work for yourself.

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And here you have a perfectly acceptable 5.5 inch Sami styled bushcraft knife made for approximately say $50 if you had to go out and buy the sand paper to finish it off. Time wise I might have about 20 hours with all manual tools over the past couple months at a very relaxed pace. It's truly a relaxing enjoyable project.

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It is good carbon steel made by an old and respected Scandinavian knife company, and you can take pride in having put it together. The pins and fittings are nickel silver but brass is perfectly acceptable.

I styled the handle after the traditional style but your imagination is the limit here. I finished it in a matte style down to 320 grit, but if you preferred you could polish the blade and fittings. I sanded off the black paint on the blade but that is just my preference.

Thanks for indulging my little bit of fun.
 
Sld1959 said:
And here you have a perfectly acceptable 5.5 inch Sami styled bushcraft knife made for approximately say $50 if you had to go out and buy the sand paper to finish it off. Time wise I might have about 20 hours with all manual tools over the past couple months at a very relaxed pace. It's truly a relaxing enjoyable project.

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It is good carbon steel made by an old and respected Scandinavian knife company, and you can take pride in having put it together. The pins and fittings are nickel silver but brass is perfectly acceptable.

I styled the handle after the traditional style but your imagination is the limit here. I finished it in a matte style down to 320 grit, but if you preferred you could polish the blade and fittings. I sanded off the black paint on the blade but that is just my preference.

Thanks for indulging my little bit of fun.
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Beautiful work brother.
 
If, you want nice wood for handles and do not have it, you csn purchase wood scales online, or...

You can do what I do, scrounge. When driving around look for old furniture on the side of the road. Sure you have to pay attention that you are getting solid wood and not cheap veneers over chip board but if you do, you can find some gems, that's where this wood came from, it's previous life was a nice old broken headboard.
 
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