Making knife handles

Those look good. Ive got an old Case XX blank that I want to give a go on making scales for it. Hope mine turn out as well as yours.
 
Thanks guys.

Blais - If I could figure out how to cut my labor time in half (or more) I might do it. However, you should give it a try yourself. It wasn't as hard to do as I thought it would be.
 
You did an excellent job. It should inspire others try it on their own.
 
Thanks everyone. Mossy, I hope it does indeed inspire some to make their own.

Fujita - I bought a sheath for the leuku and I already had a sheath that fits the puukko well. I am considering making a different style sheath for both though. I will definitely get some good user shots at some point.

SJ - No, it's just epoxied onto the handle.
 
bladz said:
Very nice job. I made a stacked leather/mahogany handle on a Lauri blade recently. I had difficulty peening the tang. I ended up rounding the tang about 1/2" from the end and threading it. Worked out good because it allowed me to get the leather very tight.
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Some of the blades one can buy have VERY hard tangs.... even after heating in an attempt to anneal the steel, too hard to peen. So an alternate method of handle attachment is sometimes necessary.

Andy
 
I got one you guys will probably get a big giggle over :D But hear me out because it didn't turn out as strange as you might think at first impression.

What happened is this: I was on a fishing excursion at a local lake here a few years back and was walking through the timber to get to a secret Crappie fishing spot that I loved. On my way there I found an old lost fixed blade knife. Well it looked as though it had been there for years and the blade was pitted and the factory handle had long been rotted off ( I'm sure it had a wood handle).

I showed this knife I found to an old timer friend of my dad's who I fish with occasionally and he told me that it looked like an old fixed blade CASE model. And I believe he's right because that blade truly had some fairly decent steel in it.

I had a buddy of mine who worked in a plant where they had a shot blaster and he ran it through the blaster and it really cleaned it up nicely. Well what I did for a handle I guess would be laughable but it didn't turn out bad at all.

I got a 2 part epoxy at my local hardware called PC-7. I had used that epoxy on all kinds of repair jobs throughout my handyman career :rolleyes:. So what I did was to take the epoxy in about 3 different layers and I custom molded a handle from PC-7. Well let me tell you the finished product came out so good that I'm even going to make another knife handle out of this super material. Because I can tell you that you can make that handle in any shape you want. Mine just fits me like a glove. Check out PC-7 & marine grade PC-11. They are super. They are corrosion proof and chemical resistant.

Now I've got a really nice USER/BEATER fixed blade knife that if I hurt it or destroy it I'm really not out of anything but about $1 worth of epoxy.
 
I just came back for another look. That's a sweet little knife. Great job.
 
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