International re-handle your knife month

I'll be taking pics thru the whole process. Patience..........
The Gen IIs are probably the best bang for your buck out there.
 
Hey stick- this help you any? Excuse the micarta dust on my thumb.
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When I'm all done I'll post a short tutorial.
 
Thanks bud. Glad to see that it's not just a sliver of metal for a "full tang." Thanks again.
 
80sgyrene said:
Just did these last nite. Stippled & added the liners.
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The extra thickness demanded new stainless hardware.

Next up, some micarta for a new SP48. GREAT knife for the money!
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Those scales and liners looks great, I am looking forward to the rehandle of Ontario as well.

I'll get some photos of my stippling job up soon.
 
mgregg85 said:
I wish I had the wood working ability to make some scales out of this stuff...
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Anytime I try to work with wood it comes out looking like that wooden pickle from the movie Bad Santa.

I have been thinking about picking up some of the micarta handle scales from KA-BAR, I wish they made some different colors.
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What kind of wood is that? It's beautiful.
 
OREGON FAL'ER said:
Proceed, attack formation delta, go now.
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Scales cut to size and epoxied. Given the overall coldness here and that I used slow epoxy, I'll probably give these a few days to get nice and hard. I'll have some pics / updates next week.

I have exactly 0 experience in this area and am trying a hidden pin construction. All hand tools. I typically learn by making a mess of things, so we'll see how this goes.
 
Getting started:
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Clamped up, epoxy getting to work:
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Little rasping, little filing, little 80grit sanding we're getting there:
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Still got some work to do, but getting there. These will be thicker than the originals.
 
I have 4 Old Hickory knives & love em. 6" boneing, skinner, 7" butcher & the cleaver. Don't chop bone with the cleaver, it will deform the blade. I pounded it back & got lucky.
 
OK here we go- The above pictured Ontario with it's new handle.
I'll post a more complete account later. I still have to fine tune it.
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Knife with handle cut off, exacto knife handled this.
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I had scrap micarta laying around, for this size handle I used 3 pieces. 1 for a guard & 1 on each side. Knife is going to be a beater anyway.
I drilled out the guard piece and filed to fit, then inletted each slab with a dremel.
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After dry fitting everything, some gorilla glue and clamps handled the assembly.
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I did roughen up the sides & tang to be glued, and drilled pin holes to match the tang on one slab.

Note rough outline of shape I was thinking about. Decided to pattern it after my Power Eagle.
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Rough sanded to shape.
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Not very hard, just alot of patience. Besides hand tools, I used a table sander & a dremel. Some rivets were fitted to keep everything nice and tight if the glue doesn't do it's job.

Handle strikes me as a cross between the aforementioned Tops, a Collins Raider bowie, & a machete.
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Like I said, I might tweak it a bit. Shape it a little more to my hand and add a brass lanyard hole liner.
Hope this helps somebody out.
 
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Hey OREGON, where are some pics of that blaze orange micarta you were trying to whip up?
 
DerekH said:
Hey OREGON, where are some pics of that blaze orange micarta you were trying to whip up?
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Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I never did that batch with those orange rags, however I did do these.
Was going for bright yellow and ended up with lime green, Oh well you can't expect top quality yer first time out.


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On this set of orange, I picked out a color off of a paint chip and just kept adding pigment to the resin until it was close.
Instead of dyeing the rags I tinted the resin, the cloth is a canvas drop cloth.
 
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Just put these in another thread, but since this is just for handles, I'll put them here also.



 
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