Blast from the past!

[A. Brett Schaller]

I posted this on my website last week and thought it would be fun to show it here as well:

I made this for my father-in-law in the early 1990's. When he passed away, it came back to me and it's just been sitting in my desk drawer ever since.
I thought I'd show it here because it uses a neat trick you don't see often nowdays. Rather than using a fiber liner of contrasting color to the red Micarta, I used a red liner and put a sheet of brass between the liner and scale. This makes it look as though there is a painted brass accent line running down the scales, when it actually goes through the entire width of the handle.
Yes, brass was still in vouge back then - nickle silver and stainless were considered "extras."

 

[froggy]

Real pretty...nice lines

 

[David Stifle]

I think that's a really nice knife. No one can say that knife doesn't have class. Makes me want to go out to my shop and dig up some brass, if I even have any. Not many people buy brass furnitured knives anymore. A shame.

Still don't see how you worked the brass so it rides up along the guard as well as following the tang. A neat trick indeed.

Thanks for showing that little beauty.

Dave

 

[ArtinNC]

Very very Nice

 

[Darksky]

That is beautiful.
What a cool "trick"

 

[A. Brett Schaller]

Thanks guys!

Still don't see how you worked the brass so it rides up along the guard as well as following the tang. A neat trick indeed.

I used a triangular file to file a V-shaped groove all the way across the face of the brass liner and almost - but not quite - all the way through. Then I bent the brass 90 degrees toward (NOT away from) the groove. This closed the groove up on itself and created a nice square 90 degree angle in the brass.

I seem to recall making one the same way but with black Micarta / spacers and stainless guard and liners as well. If I didn't make one, I meant to but never got around to it - too long ago to remember which!