Jack Black sent me a project.

[flatblackcapo]

I've been distracted with a Basque makila- inspired spear stick, since I came across some coyote scat in the back yard, which is my excuse for not being further along with this.
I snipped the pin in the donor knife by slipping in a knife and squeezing it in a vice. Don't try this at home! Always wear safety glasses! I also stood in a forward tiger stance to protect my cruxial vitals, tucked in my chin to protect my throat, and threw a rag over the top to retard the flight of anything that might have gone ping-sproing.

This one made my laugh! Have fun with your project, SP.

 

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This one made my laugh! Have fun with your project, SP.

Thanks, I will.

 

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"'Adopt, adapt, and improve': the motto of the Coldstream Guards."

Well, I've had the fun of losing one of my bolsters. Looks like the old hardwood shadow ploy after all. Maybe I can chip-carve something that looks like a highly stylized stag's head. (It'll have at least one branch in the antlers, so people will know it isn't My Favorite Martian.)

 

[neal70]

Keep two bolsters and use something else for ,lack of a better word, faux-bolsters. Makers use different materials all the time for a different take on the classic. You could certainly put something chip resistant on the ends. Just a thought, shadow is probably easier, plus you get to carve!
Thanks, Neal

 

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Actually I found a few bolsters in a pill bottle in my parts box, so...
And it's probably better if I don't carve, but we'll see. The one thing I want not to do is mess with those little steel pins holding it together.

 

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Alia jacta est! Or words to that effect.
It will be brass bolsters and walnut covers. The pins look more vulnerable on the other side, so I'll file them off that side and try to pull them out of this side with end-nippers.

 

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Coming along. Filing was a waste of time, but the pins responded to the knife-in-the-vise ploy.

In case I forget, the inner liner on the knife side was right against the outer liner. The inner liner marked for openers was between the springs.
I was going to leave it all twirling on the central pin, but I think they had it clinched too tight, and it will be easier to work on the handles separately anyway.