Leather stacked handles

Leatherface

Leatherface

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hiya guy's

The thread about Morseth blades go me to looking around at different handle materials...

The stacked leather handle ones look just about right for my second try at handlemaking and I have alot of leather laying around

So here is my question...Where do I get knife tangs like the morseth ones but with a threaded tang and a endcap tapped to fit it??

thanks
 
Dave, try Texas Knifemaker's supply www.texasknife.com they've got everything you mentioned and more. Check out the blades from Solingen, there's a couple in there that are shaped very much like a Marble's Woodcraft, straight tang perfect for stacked leather, and the end's already threaded for a pommel nut.

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Sarge
 
Thanks sarge will do...

BTW..are there any "gotchas" with leather stacked handles?? It looks pretty straightforward to me
 
Leatherface, why not talk a little about the process for us. I'd like to do a leather handle too.
 
I've been flirting with the idea of a stacked Birch bark handle myself. (Heaven knows there's enough of that around here!) I was kinda wondering....or at least with the wider, stouter tangs like the Morseth blades...why I wouldn't be able to compress the bark, put my brass end cap on there and pin it straight through the brass endcap. Therefore keeping enabling me to keep my profile a little bit rounder and cleaner.

Either that or get a different blade and learn how to use hidden rivets...:p
 
I started a rehandling project with an Ontario PSK. I didn't like the feel of the original so... I used some scrap leather I had and cut out a ton of washers. But the leather was really thin and wanted to tilt or skew. I used walnut for the ends and that helped keep the washers straight. Instead of wax I used two part epoxy. I've set it aside in favor of painting the house and doing some roof work:grumpy: I'll finish it up eventually. A threaded tang would have been nice, when I went to peen the tang over the keeper I cracked the walnut. It sounded easy.:foot:

Frank
 
Andy,
The post by Ferguson is pretty much what I have been looking at...I plan on using some 6-7oz leather for the handle...I would like to do it for a Morseth but I dont see where they are offered with a threaded tang...

Prolly gonna order one of those from Texas Knife that sarge posted about...
 
Hidden rivets are sweet dont get me wrong, but those washer rivets have a certain "umph" to me...


Here is where I am at right now...

Using my strap cutter (the one I use to make durable and horrifically underpriced belts):thumbup:

1...cut strap to around an 1 1/2

2...using my hole punchers make smaller and smaller holes in the center of the leather

3...buy guard with knife or bribe someone into making one:D

4...buy a small chunk of deer antler or maybe buffalo

5...buy a pommel

6...buy a washer rivet and a bunch of glue

7...fit and glue it

8...sand the handle to suit me<~~~gonna mess this part up!!!!

9...seal with leathershean or something like it

10...make really pretty knife sheath from Cape Buffalo hide

etc...:p
 
I ordered one of those belts. Your holsters are way cheaper than I thought they would be too. I want one for my Ruger 357. How do I put in an order for that?
 
Andy,
working on the belt right now...It will prolly suck because some hammerhead beat me to the Antler handled Kumar KARDA!!!!!HOW???????


But I digress...

Cheap?? Yea I cut the cost's down by watching alot of horror movies while I work...So it doesnt SEEM like I am working...ya know??:D

Wait on the holster for a bit...will holla at ya off board
 
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