Custom Fallkniven H1

[Ugly Duck]

I've had this excellent knife for a long time but it was just not cool anymore next to my hand forged HIs. So I took off the rubberized grip handle & reshaped it in whalebone with a mammoth tusk guard. Now its not embarrassed to be seen with its brothers from Nepal:

 

[hunglvq]

Nice knife with exotic materials! Thanks for sharing.

Did you glue the ivory guard to the blade? I dont see pin there.

 

[Ugly Duck]

I cut a slit into a block of mammoth tusk so it would slide down onto the tang from the top. I also cut some lengthwise grooves inside the slit that lined up with some holes drilled into the whalebone handle. Then I fashioned a piece of ivory that fit into the slit at the finger guard underneath. Filled everything with epoxy & assembled it. I don't think its gonna come off, but I might drill a hole & put a pin through it anyway.

 

[7rip13a]

Beautiful work UD, the handle materials go together very nicely.

 

[Yvsa]

I cut a slit into a block of mammoth tusk so it would slide down onto the tang from the top. I also cut some lengthwise grooves inside the slit that lined up with some holes drilled into the whalebone handle. Then I fashioned a piece of ivory that fit into the slit at the finger guard underneath. Filled everything with epoxy & assembled it.
I don't think its gonna come off, but I might drill a hole & put a pin through it anyway.

Beautiful work Ugly Duck!!! From the way you described putting everything together I'd leave it alone as I think its perfect as it sets!:thumbup:

Besides you will never use that knife hard enough to damage it unless it's a real emergency and who's gonna care then??? If you had wanted it to be even more solid than it is you could've, and no doubt would've, used something much more substantial and almost as equally beautiful such as Mokume or Damascus for the bolster/guard.

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[wildmike]

Outstanding Work!!