Harley Chain to Double Edge Boot Knife

The end is in sight finally

This is a handy but expensive foredom handpiece. It is a clasp type and has a 90 degree head. It cleans up those hard to reach places.

Im rounding off the scales and thinning them to only about .220" thick. Its a boot knife so it needs to be thin and light.

hogging out the middle of the spacer so the outside edges will have no gaposis.

clamped and pinned. I used super glue on the back of the scales. It is the oderless medium thick stuff and dries slow enough to assemble everything. I roughed up the pins and wicked in the superglue by sliding them in and out a couple times. Sorry for the crappy pic but its the only one I took, the glue was drying so I couldnt fuss around with pictures.

The bolts are the leather store variety. They are .125" dia. and have a threaded shank and a little design on the heads.
 
WOW! Thank you for doing this.
 
Here is the finished knife. Hope ya like it.

I need to make a boot clip style sheath next and put an edge on it.

Thanks for staying with me on this.
 
Very nice Bruce! You really put out some beauties. I haven't tried a double edge knife yet, still trying to get one edge down.
 
Bruce, I really like to thank you for the time that you put into this.:thumbup: :thumbup: It came out SWEET.:thumbup: :thumbup:
Hey!!! If I send you out another chain can you make me one like this one????? HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!;)
Really Nice job Bro.:cool: :thumbup: :D
 
Bruce,

That was great tutorial, thanks for creating such a beautiful knife and sharing the methods/procedures you used. :thumbup:

:eek: Now that's how a mastersmith does it "WOW"
 
Thanks again Bruce, what a service to BF community. Too bad there's no permanent articles section here. This project is timeless.
Have a great Blade show, Craig
 
Thankyou everyone that has complimented my efforts. This was fun and I learned allot about posting on our forum.

Special thanks to Bruce Evans and Dan Gray for moving the entire tutorial their sites. The links to those are in the first post here.

I want to make a simple functional leather boot sheath and can post a few shots of that process too.

Again Thanks
 
What do you say when you see something like that? WOW..speechless brother..well done a true work of art..and it opens beers..what more could a man want..i think im tearing up here..sniff..sniff..seriously though ..EXCELLENT.
 
Thank you very, very much for this tutorial. The knife is gorgeous and I expect to refer back to your pictures many times when I get to the point of doing something this complex.
 
Hey Bump-man! I've read every tutorial on these forums I believe, but this one was the most informative and entertaining. I bet I learned at least 10 more ways to do different procedures. Now you need to start on your pistol/knife tutorial Bruce!
Thanks guy for letting us all in on this tutorial! Very well done, I enjoyed following it from beginning to end
 
Mr. Bump, you are an enormous asset to this forum, and a walking reference text!
Thank you very much for taking the time out to show everyone (truly) how it's done!
 
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