Broken Durba @ Shop

SamuraiDave

SamuraiDave

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My Dasien Durba BAS is currently at the shop. I dropped her off around 4. I sealed the deal with a handshake and she should be ready around 10am tomorrow.

The guy commented on how "beautiful" the knife was, and said that it should run around $10-15. I explained everything about the holiday season in Nepal, and how they get into a rush. He understood and he knew to wrap the blade.

Lets hope for the best, and may the torch be kind.
 
Dave I remember you writing something about this, but don't recall exactly what it was.
Are you gonna have to make a new handle for it or something?

Keep us posted on your progress.:)
 
I am going to put the old handle back on it. But I will have to make a new but cap. I ruined the last one takeing it off. :(

The horn handle feels too good to put it on anything else. I thought about making a new one, but my inner woodchuck is telling me to finish my model and hurry up on the coffee table I am refinishing for my apt.

I have to go pick it up and buy a roll of film. ;)
 
(well dont we all???)

This one involves my current baby...er...project.

Has anyone seen a horn handle lying about...say about 5" long with a brass bolster????

No...well I will keep looking here.

They did a good job welding, with the exception of a little bit crooked. But I turned my cinder block furniture into an anvil and straighted the tang (thank goodness I am in college and can afford these things).

and so the search continues....
 
Still can't find the handle... so I will get some pics of the weld job and send'em.

Anyone have any good ideas for where I can find some good material for a handle? Maybe I can get some of that pink plastic that someone was talking about...Durba in pink...I can see it now. ;) :rolleyes:
 
Seriously...anyone know where to find a good pink plastic that wont whimp out on me deep in the woods???:confused:
 
Originally posted by SamuraiDave
Seriously...anyone know where to find a good pink plastic that wont whimp out on me deep in the woods???:confused:
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Dawi stay with wood. If you want something pink go with the newly popular pink wood that I can't remember what it's called right at the moment.:mad: Walosi may know.

The trouble with a plastic of any color is myriad, ie, it may not hold up to the shock of chopping, it can be very toxic to work with for the home hobbiest, some epoxies may not adhere with it well and the main reason is the expense a small piece may bring unless you were lucky enough to find a 'drop.'
Some plastic can be very costly, from experience with machining different varities in the shop.
You could also possibly experience a very slick finish with plastic unless your final finish was with Scotch-Brite.
It may even be slicker than horn under certain circumstances.:rolleyes: :barf:
 
African Pink Ivory??? I can't remember squat these days... Wal will know for sure though.

Dave, if you do go with the Pink Ivory... be VERY careful with it, as it is rather hazardous if you get a splinter in you. Wal told me of... someone, there goes the memory again... who got a sliver and ended up on an IV pump for a couple of months fighting an infection.

It is very pretty wood though, and hard as hell too. I remember seeing it for sale on one of the online wood supply stores. It is spendy, and hard to get I guess, but available. In fact, you might check with the guy from South Africa who makes the solid one piece knives (of course, I forget his name)... but he is online here at blade forums. He makes canes with Pink Ivory as an option... he might sell you some...

CHRIS REEVES!!! I didn't have a burst of recall... I jumped over to the Manufacturers link and saw his name... I think I need some Ginkoba pills or something... :D

Good luck...

Alan
 
As long as I don't have to write myself post-it notes at night to remind myself who I am in the morning I should be okay... I hope :rolleyes:
 
It is one of the prettiest woods available, and one of the two or three highest density in the world. Boer farmers used it for wagon tongues. Their early wagons had no seats, so the driver stood on a flat on the tongue. After a month or so, the wood polished off so slickly that a man with leather boot sos could not stand on it when the wagon was moving. The expense is dueto the fact that much of it has been cleared for crops in Africa, and nearly all that remains is on Masai tribal lands. Only chiefs and sub-chiefs may cut it, and only ranking tribal members use it for the shaft of their lion spears. The victim was Deacon Deason, late owner of Bear Hug Grips. He was making presentation grips for and engraved and inlayed Colt SAA, and got a splinter in his thumb. Three months before they found an antibiotic that would take on whatever was in the wood,and he said his thumb looked as big as his ankle.
For a synthetic, go for one of the Micartas. Canvas is the best, linen next, and paper the most fragile. You can get it in everyting from black to ivory (antique ivory on one of my five-shots) and it binds very well with epoxies. After you get the knife back, rough up or even make small v-cuts along the edge of the tang, and inside the hole you drill in the block of whatever you use for the handle. This will give the epoxy even more hold on the tang when it sets. The Micarta can also be polished, and takes a nice Tru Oil finish, although it almost always changes the color. An old A.G. Russell boot knife came with a forest green canvas micarta handle, and finished out in a very lifelike walnut brown. Nice grain, too:eek:
 
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