Been a while and have missed this forum. At least in the mean time I got a chance to make and finish a knife... during working hours too!!
Request was from the boss for his 10 year old son who collects knives. The 'spec' was the below image:
Which eventually resulted in the following knife:
Was fun to get the chance to make a knife again
Here's the question: I varnished the scales before mounting them and doing the pinning, to avoid getting varnish on the steel of the handle tang, but this resulted in having to re-touch up varnish after grinding pins flush. Would most of you just varnish after doing the full assembly??... in which case how do you avoid getting the varnish on the steel?
Request was from the boss for his 10 year old son who collects knives. The 'spec' was the below image:
Which eventually resulted in the following knife:
- Full tang of Bohler N690 steel, hardened to 60 HRC, gave a beaut of an edge at 20 deg per side
- Handle was made small for a younger hand, and allowed finger guard to be slipped on from the handle side to abut against a shoulder in its position
- Handle wood of Rhodesian teak. Scales glued and pinned.
- Finger guard was originally meant to be longer at the bottom, with a 30 deg bend, but the (normalised!) N690 snapped before reaching 30 degrees, so a quickfix was required.
Was fun to get the chance to make a knife again
Here's the question: I varnished the scales before mounting them and doing the pinning, to avoid getting varnish on the steel of the handle tang, but this resulted in having to re-touch up varnish after grinding pins flush. Would most of you just varnish after doing the full assembly??... in which case how do you avoid getting the varnish on the steel?
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