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Originally posted by RARanney
http://www.engnath.com/public/intable.htm
You need a guard and a butt cap (threaded or with a tightening nut), and you would drill through a solid piece of handle material. Thats a threaded rod at the top. The above site will help.
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Kind of confusing when I read instructions on that site. Maybe it will be easier to understand once I have some parts in my hand.
 
dude/dudette i was/am in the same boat as you, totally new.



go on chapters.com/ca and get wayne goddards books, the making knives one


i have the 50$dollar knife shop.

it will teach you many things
 
You're in a good place to learn. Read every thread here; at first a lot of it may sound like gibberish but sooner than you think it'll start to come together.

Many knifemakers use their valuable time to show their techniques and publish tutorials on the web just for people like you and me.

I wish I could remember which of our members has accumulated most of these tutorials on his website, because it is the best place to find what you need. I apologize deeply for not having bookmarked it, and I hope you'll jump in and take up my slack.

Meanwhile Bruce Evans' tutorials are super; you'll come back to these over and over as you learn more about knife making.

There's no better teacher than just getting all the stuff together and starting to make a knife. I'd bet that's what most of the makers here did to start - for sure that's how I did it.

Good luck and keep at it. Think think think!

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http://www.customknifedirectory.com/CKD_TutorialFrameset.htm
The Engnath catalogs had drawings, and I didn't see them on the site I gave you originally. They would make things easier. Look at the above site and note how Terry Primos fits (masterfully) a guard. You will be stacking a guard, handle chunk, and butt cap or top piece on the handle and tightening them down with a nut. Take a piece of cardboard, poke a hole in it, and shove it down onto the handle down to the ricasso, and note how it would have to be filed to make it fit tightly. Next take a scrap piece of wood, drill down the center (carefully, it will spin). Note how you would have to file the hole to get a snug fit on the handle shank. Put another piece of cardboard on top of the wood handle, and thread on a nut, and look at the result. You don't have to do these things literally, you can just mentally picture them if you want. The idea is to get a notion of what you need to do, and as Dave said think about it. The Goddard books are super.
 
To save yourself the expense of buying the books at the outset, see if your local library has them. After studying various books, you can decide which ones you want to buy for constant reference availability. I've found the $50 Knife Shop and other knifemaking books in my county library system.
 
Welcome to the forums and the wonderful world of Knife Making...

The best advice I can give you is to just get some steel and brass and wood and then jump in with both feet and arms.You should have a idea of what you want in your head already so just make the parts look like that,don't worry if the first one looks crude or the first hundred look crude,you will gain knowledge with every knife....
Read everything you can get your hands on about knives and knife making,if you can't find the books in the library just visit the local coffe-Book store and pick one up off the shelf and set down and read through it (if they will let you) some won't and in that case just stand there looking through the different books and reading what you can..
As I was told once...90% of knifemaking is learning how to correct your mistakes..

GOOD LUCK and keep posting your questions and someone will help you out.
Bruce
 
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