Handle fix for the 1000th time

Let us know how it goes now that it's "fixed".

( Why do I have this image of Tim Allen on Home Improvement popping into my mind? Anyway, wear a motorcycle helmet with full face shield when testing.)
 
I've treated this one like dirt. It was a fairly ugly villager. There were troughs in the blade. The handle cracked after some wicked hits cutting apart a fallen log to take home. It skidded and struck the flat a couple times. The handle must have needed moisture, or been forced too tight, or something, because it cracked.

It's funny about cracks in handles. I've read here accounts of wood handles cracking and some of those folks won't trust wood, they have to have horn. On the other hand when it's a big blade we hear comments like; "too bad its in horn or I would've have got it."


People are funny, no doubt about it. Now, I read an account here of splitting wood khukuri style and I was anxious to try. If I recall the wood splitter used a wooden pike or batton against the Khuk, striking the pike with a hammer. The account was a little fuzzy in my brain. Maybe because of the head injury, maybe lack of sleep, and maybe 'just because" But I took a hammer to the spine of the villager. This left some big dings in the top of the blade. After 6 or 8 of these I decided if I continued I wouldn't have a khukuri any longer but a mass of metal with an edge on one side.

As the spine top was a sort of vague two flats coming together to make a mild point, I have plans now to file or sand the mess into a simple flat- like a baby Ganga Ram I own.

I gave away a great AK and kept this villager. Now, why would I do that? I dunno. I tested each and this villager cut a little better.

So this poor villager has had a rough time of it. I once cut a bunch of logs and left the villager stuck in a stump. I drove home with my boys and noticed the empty scabard on the floor.

I had to drive back before night fall.


munk
 
Just keep tightening until it doesn't move anymore.You will start to see the threads as u tighten.U can peen it if u want but I left mine alone just in case.
 
Well Bill, I took it out to the old stump, full of turpentine veins, and wailed a-way. I rolled this stump down the mountain into my backyard. It came from a tough, twisted old pine on the exposed face of the cliff. I had to pick one end up and drop over and over agin to get it into the yard. It's big.

I don't think anything is going to dislodge the handle. If it starts cracking any more I'll dowel it together.

I drilled my hole about 9/16" from the bolster. I noticed the link said 1/4", and here in this thread no more than 1" to hit metal.

I wondered if pinning changed the vibration characteristic of the Khuk? I thought it had. I tested three other khuks out on the stump but they all felt about the same. So what do I know?


I'm pretty happy with the khuk. Drilling a hole in something makes it your own.

munk
 
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