English hunter with driven guard.

[anvilring]

Finally, my forge is back up and sorta repaired... well, its half repaired... the good half of course. Its been almost 2 years since Ike and to cut to the chase, I finally am back trying to pick up where I left off. I worked around the mess for a while then gave up till this spring. I had some "young" help or the tree would still be there.

Anyway, I'm having to relearn/remember what I was doing when I was interrupted so to speak... I love knives of the 19th and back so I was/am trying to do driven on guards in iron, (wagon wheel tire iron) and tapered tangs w/ pinned scales-no glue. This is a hard thing to get right as I'm experiencing in this get reacquainted piece. Does anyone else do this? have any tricks? I actually forgot to relieve the spine and ricasso's heel before I removed the file guide so fit there is off of course. Forgot to radius the pin holes in the tang to facilitate ease of pin installation and so on (actually a lot of so on's).

A few more pix...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19089828@N00/sets/72157623671741243/show/with/4500626060/

 

[oldwolf]

Like I've heard said before. That's really bad. I'll help you get rid of it and I won't charge for hauling it away.

Anyway, I like it.

 

[Raymond Richard]

Nice looking Bowie! Glad to see your up and running. I know the feeling. I find it an adventure relearning. I find myself doing that all the time.

 

[R.C.Reichert]

I love it! I really like the idea of not using any glue or epoxy on the tang...seems so much more traditional. Or is that what they used old fashioned cutler's resin for?...the mixture of pine tar, sawdust and something else I can't remember. Anyways, good work on the knife!

Actually, I think the mixture was pine pitch, beeswax and sawdust for the cutler's resin....used for centuries.

 

[VaughnT]

Looks great. Are you, literally, driving the guard into place? Do you have to do differential HT to prevent the blade from snapping?

Whatever you're doing, the final product looks fantastic.

 

[anvilring]

I love it! I really like the idea of not using any glue or epoxy on the tang...seems so much more traditional. Or is that what they used old fashioned cutler's resin for?...the mixture of pine tar, sawdust and something else I can't remember. Anyways, good work on the knife!

Actually, I think the mixture was pine pitch, beeswax and sawdust for the cutler's resin....used for centuries.

Actually, it was brick dust insted of sawdust, (I've even made some)

But on this sort of assembly process, its just pins for the tang and nothing else.

VaughnT... the guard is iron so its soft in comparison to the tempered blade/ricasso area. Its actually quite easy to drive it on provided you've got the angles and flats behind the ricasso right! The old Sheffield cutlers didn't use much iron or soft steel, just brass and nickel but it works just the same....

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[Dixieblade57]

What only one view, I am offended!

Serioulsly, great knife I would love to see some more pics though! :thumbup: