A different handle fixing on this paring knife

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Von Gruff

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A paring knife
I had made a few knives from a commercial hacksaw blade and had this little piece left over which I thought to make into a stick tang as there was not enough length to do a conventional handle but the only carbide bit I had just lost its tip and the cobalt drill bits wont go near it so I wasnt able to do the usual stick tang into a one piece handle. With a couple of notches in the tang set into a piece of walnut the same thickness so that the tang is held securely as there is no way to drill the tang as would normally be done. That could then be held between the conventional handle slabs.


The hande slabs are jarah and the blade was done with a chisel grind on the left for a right handed user

 
Looks good. The only thing I would suggest is to make the pins symmetrical. I would put one in the middle or evenly space 2/3 but that's just my opinion. Nice work.
 
I was unable to put the pins where it would have been more symetrical simply because I could not drill through the tang so one is right at the end of the tang with the other at the rear of the handle.
I will have tyo look at a better type of drill to get through this very hard steel
 
How did you heat treat this blade?
A tip for drilling through steel that might otherwise not lend its self to drilling is hot drilling. How I do it is I have a propane torch next to the drill press. I fire it up and heat the tang tell its red then while red I drill the hole. If I don't get all the way through then I reheat and keep drilling. A drill bit will drill through hot steel like butter.
 
Do like JT says but I usually drill an oversized hole in the tang so I have some room for error when drilling the pin hole through the handle. No big deal just small details!
 
This is the steel I used and with it being as hard as it is I have used it as cut from the blade so no heat treating. Thanks for the tip on heating although I did wrap the blank in a wet cloth and heated it trying to anneal the tang but obviously didn't get it hot enough as I wanted to keep the HT the blade already had.


I didn't try to drill it while it was hot but I have another couple of blades I cut out from the same hacksaw blade so will do the heat and drill with them
 
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