Just made a bamboo handle for swiss army knife 3603

[swissredo]

During a lot of times I just see a lot of people change their own knives handle to wood, bone, and other kind of matieral, I was wondering some days I can also made one by myself.

any how , I now have a CNC machine,then I just change the handle to some other matieral, firstly try some normal and cheap marieral, the Bamboo.

Let CNC running to make the shape.

 

[swissredo]

finished the shape

 

[swissredo]

get it down.

 

[DennisStrickland]

swissredo a few questions.
welcome to the forum by the way
is bamboo a strong stable material
does it need a sealer?
do you intend to stain this ?
thanks for the good pics, please show us some more.

 

[citizensoldierNY]

They look awesome, can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[Harayasu]

That's great. If I remember well, there once was a thread on the German SAK forum with photo's of SAK scales made of natural materials, mostly different kinds of wood.

 

[swissredo]

compare with the original handle

 

[swissredo]

we can see it, almost 100% suite with original one.

 

[swissredo]

make the hole for installation.

done.

Try to install without glue, perfect

 

[swissredo]

Done, with very few polishment

one more

Another more.

Another side.

Back Side

Show with blade.

Lady, show me your face.

In my hand, you can see how big it is.

back side.

 

[uncouth]

Very nice!

 

[swissredo]

swissredo a few questions.
welcome to the forum by the way
is bamboo a strong stable material
does it need a sealer?
do you intend to stain this ?
thanks for the good pics, please show us some more.

Thank you so much ,I'm first day here because I have very bad english as you see.

In fact bamboo is very strong material, but not that stable because in the fibre of bamboo, it have high percent of sugra, also, it's not that strong with the direct of follow the fibre way.

So this bamboo I have put it into 120 Celsius degree for 2 hours, make it carbonization.

Also if possible I want some stabilization treatment. use Polyurethane or cyanoacrylate

 

[Toyz]

Thats awesome!!

 

[swissredo]

swissredo a few questions.
welcome to the forum by the way
is bamboo a strong stable material
does it need a sealer?
do you intend to stain this ?
thanks for the good pics, please show us some more.

Thank you so much ,I'm first day here because I have very bad english as you see.

In fact bamboo is very strong material, but not that stable because in the fibre of bamboo, it have high percent of sugra, also, it's not that strong with the direct of follow the fibre way.

So this bamboo I have put it into 120 Celsius degree for 2 hours, make it carbonization.

Also if possible I want some stabilization treatment. use Polyurethane or cyanoacrylate in vanccum enviroment.

 

[LUW]

Wozzers, awesome!

 

[swissredo]

swissredo a few questions.
welcome to the forum by the way
is bamboo a strong stable material
does it need a sealer?
do you intend to stain this ?
thanks for the good pics, please show us some more.

Thank you so much ,I'm first day here because I have very bad english as you see.

In fact bamboo is very strong material, but not that stable because in the fibre of bamboo, it have high percent of sugra, also, it's not that strong with the direct of follow the fibre way.

So this bamboo I have put it into 120 Celsius degree for 2 hours, make it carbonization.

Also if possible I want some stabilization treatment. use Polyurethane or cyanoacrylate in vanccum enviroment.

 

[Armadew]

Very very cool!

 

[FTO_dude]

looks fantastic!

is they metal inlay in the bamboo just taken from the original scales or did you make that too?

 

[dsmegst]

Looks like he transferred the inlay over to the new scales.

Nice work.

 

[mqqn]

Hi swissredo -

Very nice!

Thank you for the great pictures and showing us your work.

How did you do the inlay of the Victorinox shield?

best regards-

mqqn