handle fitting question

SDS

SDS

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I have tried to find this in several places but have had no luck. If this has been answered already please just point me to a previous thread.

On a stick tang knife, how do you compress the handle materials (such as stacked leather washers) and get the butt piece pinned on? I cannot come up with a good way to do this.

The best I have come up with so far is to solder the guard on then try to wrangle it all into a vise but this just doesn't work well for me.

Any suggestions or instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
SDS
 
do you have any picks you can post of this knife and what exactly you are trying to do. i use a vise with no problems to put a stacked leather washer handle on a knife.
 
I used to use a wood vise with a clearance slot for the blade cut in it. This compressed the washers while the epoxy hardened, but you would have to do something else with the butt cap. In the case of what your doing, I would have gone with a threaded tang, and just crank down the butt cap real tight.
 
I don't have a specific knife I'm working on right now. I have a few stick tang knives that I'm getting heat treated but it seems like every time I try to use the vise it turns out like a spring loaded jigsaw puzzle, usually with me picking up parts off of the floor. Maybe I'm just not doing it right. This stuff is tough to figure out sometimes without someone to watch. So many things that I have struggled with before turned out to be very easy once I watched someone else do it.

I don't guess I understant the allthread suggestion. I'm wanting to use a piece of antler for the butt. I just want to compress everything then drill my pinhole. Or should I be drilling my hole before I try to put everything together? I always assumed I needed to anneal the tang, fit everything together, then drill my pin hole so everything would line up correctly.
 
LRB, that sounds like just what I'm wanting. I knew there had to be an easier way to do this.

With a metal butt the all thread, or threaded tang would work great, but with the antler I wanted it lined up in a certain direction and I never seem to be able to get things as tight as I want with everything lined up at the same time.

Thanks guys. I know this is pretty basic stuff but like I said, it's tough trying to figure this all out on my own.
 
or you can take a cut off wheel and make a slot in the solid part of a "C" clamp, so that the blade can be resting in it while being clamped.
 
i just saw this on another thread, this is L6steel's clamp,
Mvc-019s.jpg

I hope he doesn't mind me posting this, its a neat idea.
 
You guys rock. This is exactly what I was needing. Thank you for the help!

I knew there had to be a simpler way of wrestling with this but I just couldn't come up with it on my own. Now I feel like a bit of an idiot after seeing how it was done.

Thanks again.
 
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