How many ways to finish off a stick tang?

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I'm working on a tanto with a hidden tang using a buffalo horn. I've got a threaded rod I silver brazed on the blade. A thought comes to me as to how to finish off the hidden tang. I have a threaded rod coming out the horn cyclinder and I could use a nut or a threaded pommel. But, I imagine there are more creative ways than I have thought of to finish off the end. Maybe using an epoxy to secure the horn to the rod, cut off the rod even with the horn and then secure a nickel or brass plate to the horn as a butt plate. Any other ideas you wish to share?--thanks, Dan
 
You could just epoxie it in the hole and put a single pin through it and leave the end of the horn untouched. That would look cool. You don't always need a pommel on a hidden tang knife just depends on its intended purpose :) Cory
 
The cleanest looking to me is to silver braze a nut to the pommel, then you wont have any nut or thread showing.

No pommel works well also, It helps keep the customer from useing the pommel as a hammer.:)

One way I've secured pommels on light duty knives is to braze a wood screw to the pommel and screw the pommel on. I wouldn't recomend just epoxying a flat pommel on.
 
Thanks fellas-=-some decent ideas that I have considered. Still pondering though-again --Thanks--Dan
 
Theres a lot of good ideas here, just use your imagination and have fun, you can glue, thread, drill a hole through the butt capp run the threaded tang through and put on a brass or stainless nut cap, you can mix some horn dust in your epoxy and just fill the end of the handle, mix a little and let it dry first to see how it will look before filling the handle.Theres lots of ways. Have fun. :D

Bill
 
well I kinda like the idea of a nickle endcap on top of the black horn. brazing a nut on the cap is an idea. I've seen some that cut back the threaded rod and then brazed the head of a sheet rock screw (the one with a coarse thread) to the nickle blank and then mixed up some JB Weld into the hole of the threaded rod and mounted it that way. any more ideas?--Dan
 
I silver braze one of those long nuts, sometimes called connector nuts, to the pommel. If I plan for it to be removable I use a cap nut, sometimes decorated.
Lynn
 
Back when I was a buffaholic I used brass or stainless acorn nuts and carved em up. I still drilled and tapped the pommel for s little extra strength. If you want to make sure the nut doesn't losen up any, you can either use loctite or drill a hole thru it and the tang and pin it.
 
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