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Whenever I'm going to Portland, OR I always stop off at a little village called Kalama to do a little antique shopping. On the last run there I found a handle for a 1918 LF&C trench knife. The handle was in pretty bad condition when I found it. The guard had been broken or ground off, the pommel was missing and there was no blade, of course. Still, I thought I had to buy it and see what I could do with it. Here's what I found:
Given the condition of the handle, I have no intentions of trying to restore this to anything resembling original condition. Rather, my purpose is simply to make something interesting with it. So I started by grinding off the stub of the guard that was left. I don't have any hard and fast ideas about the blade shape yet, but I'm thinking it will have to be fairly large. I have ordered a pommel for it, but I'm not sure I'll use it. We'll see.
Anyway, I won't get started on this seriously until the Balisong is done.
- Greg
Given the condition of the handle, I have no intentions of trying to restore this to anything resembling original condition. Rather, my purpose is simply to make something interesting with it. So I started by grinding off the stub of the guard that was left. I don't have any hard and fast ideas about the blade shape yet, but I'm thinking it will have to be fairly large. I have ordered a pommel for it, but I'm not sure I'll use it. We'll see.
Anyway, I won't get started on this seriously until the Balisong is done.
- Greg