Costumer Service and new knife

[BrB]

Hey there guys...

Well some time ago a forum mate bought a Tape model hunter by Luciano Dorneles. It featured mosaic damascus and sheep horn scales in a full tang handle.

Case was this person lived in the desert and as soon as the knife arrived the horn started to move. After a few months it had shrank over 1mm and that was clearly not accpetable. So we asked him to send the knife back and Luciano tried four new sets of pre-cooked sheep horn scales and after that tested them in dry hot enviroments (oven and silica) and they all moved.

After a while we decided to make him another knife, with a hidden tang handle and stablized wood to replace the one he bought. And here it is:

The damascus is the same mosaic damascus from Luciano and the wood is stablized and dyed from David Peterson (A+ to Dave! :thumbup: ). We are just expecting some leather to arrive and make the sheath and send it back to the owner.

Jeff Velasco

 

[RogerP]

Good on you guys - that was certainly above and beyond the call of duty. I am sure your customer is happy - I sure would be.

As a side note, this is the reason I generally avoid full tangs with natural handle materials. It's no fault of the maker, but there is just too high a likelihood that the stuff will move. I don't live in a desert, but I do have to endure the dry home heating of a long winter. The effect is the same.

Roger

 

[cockroachfarm]

I have had this happen several times - on fixed blades and on folders. In every instance, the handles were made and fitted in one environment (the maker's) and shipped to a very different environment (the collector's). Yes, even with materials that were supposedly stabilized. I don't think I can blame a maker for that.