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I had been wanting to try my hand at putting a handle on a knife so I jumped on a blade from Bill Akers when he put a couple of DIY blades up for sale.
He offered them with some nice Walnut,but I had some old natural micarta I wanted to use so I got just the blade.
I had rehandled a Modified Tramontina machete & a Marbles machete so felt somewhat comfortable
giving this one a try.
I learned a lot from my mistakes on the machetes & got some great pointers from Chris Bowden(KFU) & reading other makers
wip threads.
I love orange in my knife handles so I ordered some 1/8" liners thinking it would complement the nat. mic. pretty good.
I also decided to make a sheath for it,(got it done today)again..orange,but instead of the normal bright orange,I found some burnt orange kydex.
The handle is a little short to be ideal,but I can get four fingers on it & it does feel pretty damn good in my hand.
I took it out last week end & did a little cutting with it with no problems.
I made a handle for the fire steel & a couple of beads with some of the scrap micarta.
The blade is 1095,1/8" thick & 7/8" high with a scandi grind.
The OAL is 7 1/2" with a 3 5/8" blade & 3 7/8 handle.
The pins are 1/4" brass tubes with 7/32 tubes & 3/16 black g9 rods epoxied in & a 1/4 brass lanyard tube.
I can't wait to do another handling.
What do ya'll think?
Pros & cons all welcome as I will be doing more when I can.
And a couple of river pics from last weekend.
He offered them with some nice Walnut,but I had some old natural micarta I wanted to use so I got just the blade.
I had rehandled a Modified Tramontina machete & a Marbles machete so felt somewhat comfortable
giving this one a try.
I learned a lot from my mistakes on the machetes & got some great pointers from Chris Bowden(KFU) & reading other makers
wip threads.
I love orange in my knife handles so I ordered some 1/8" liners thinking it would complement the nat. mic. pretty good.
I also decided to make a sheath for it,(got it done today)again..orange,but instead of the normal bright orange,I found some burnt orange kydex.
The handle is a little short to be ideal,but I can get four fingers on it & it does feel pretty damn good in my hand.
I took it out last week end & did a little cutting with it with no problems.
I made a handle for the fire steel & a couple of beads with some of the scrap micarta.
The blade is 1095,1/8" thick & 7/8" high with a scandi grind.
The OAL is 7 1/2" with a 3 5/8" blade & 3 7/8 handle.
The pins are 1/4" brass tubes with 7/32 tubes & 3/16 black g9 rods epoxied in & a 1/4 brass lanyard tube.
I can't wait to do another handling.
What do ya'll think?
Pros & cons all welcome as I will be doing more when I can.
And a couple of river pics from last weekend.
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