Digging through some stuff today.
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Here are some resources.
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It will be a fun project!
Clean up the area where the blade meets the tang so you can achieve a proper fit with your guard. Then go slowly when fitting your guard so that it's a nice, tight, wiggle-free fit.
I like to shape the handle with a rasp once it's glued on. It takes a little longer than with power tools, but it's hard to screw the process up and you can get a very good fit to your hand.
If that blade is something you care a lot about, you can buy a similar blade and finish it out first. You'll learn a ton the first time through.
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It will be a fun project!
Clean up the area where the blade meets the tang so you can achieve a proper fit with your guard. Then go slowly when fitting your guard so that it's a nice, tight, wiggle-free fit.
I like to shape the handle with a rasp once it's glued on. It takes a little longer than with power tools, but it's hard to screw the process up and you can get a very good fit to your hand.
If that blade is something you care a lot about, you can buy a similar blade and finish it out first. You'll learn a ton the first time through.
Is that threaded for a nut to screw on?
Looks like you need a guard, leather stack washers, a buttcap, and a nut to tighten it all down (or peen it over).
Looks like you need a guard, leather stack washers, a buttcap, and a nut to tighten it all down (or peen it over).
No threads, just a hole to put a pin through.
When I saw the blank, I had thoughts of grandeur! I would create a masterpiece and place it on a pedestal for all to see.
Then, just like in the movies, the music stopped and the stylus screeched across the record!
I've always wanted to do the guard and end cap in brass or stainless. The only issue I have, not a machinist!
Trying to find a machinist to do it is the hard part. Any good enough to make it, are probably to busy.
I bought a standard kit years ago to finish it, just wanted to do something different.
One day.
When I saw the blank, I had thoughts of grandeur! I would create a masterpiece and place it on a pedestal for all to see.
Then, just like in the movies, the music stopped and the stylus screeched across the record!
I've always wanted to do the guard and end cap in brass or stainless. The only issue I have, not a machinist!
Trying to find a machinist to do it is the hard part. Any good enough to make it, are probably to busy.
I bought a standard kit years ago to finish it, just wanted to do something different.
One day.
Pinned for butt cap then. OK.
I've always liked this style of end cap on Ka-Bar style knives. In brass it would look pretty good.
My idea was to have threads cut on the tail of the blank. That way a stainless pommel could be added and it would tighten down the stacked leather pieces.
My idea was to have threads cut on the tail of the blank. That way a stainless pommel could be added and it would tighten down the stacked leather pieces.
Flat Rock
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K-BAR sells the complete kit to re-do your knife, for a whopping $7!!!!
add a sheath and you're done
www.kabar.com
add a sheath and you're done
Handle Component Kit for Traditional KA-BAR
Handle Component Kit for Traditional KA-BAR
www.kabar.com
You do not need a machinist. You do need some files, a vise and patience. If the tang is hardened, you may need to use a grinder (or a diamond stone/file) to do the cleanup on it and may need to anneal the end of the tang if you want to thread it.
For some folks, doing this kind of work with hand tools is very therapeutic and rewarding.
Hillbilly Hydrographics
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Just remember if your doin a leather stacked handle that you should glue and compress the leather before final fiinish. The ones i have done i did several short stacks of leather clamped and squeezed then glued them together and compressed on the handle. If you just glue and screw a pommel down tight the leather will compress more with time and pommel will be loose. This is just my experience.
