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Old pine for knife handles
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It‘s going to be tough disassembling the door. It’s made up of 5 boards held together with a perpendicular board at the top and bottom, with lots of nails hammered all the way through and bent over on the back side. Also, they put some thick wallpaper on the inside with tacks to keep the wind out. Lot of cleanup to do on it
Will do….
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The easiest way to disassemble the door is to cut out the top and bottom boards - the "rails". Saw off a few inches from both ends away from the verticals. If those nails are truly random and all through those pieces, will be best to cut apart with a sawzall. Obviously this won't be a door anymore just a pile of wood parts. Lots of knife handles. 
Clean up the parts as you need them, rather than trying to clean up the entire door.
Clean up the parts as you need them, rather than trying to clean up the entire door.
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Wood handled butcher knives have been around for a long time and I doubt that they were stabilized, so I'm sure the handles on your knife will stand up to normal use. My grandfather cleaned fish with this knife for decades, then he washed it under the faucet and dried it with a towel.
Old growth Pine isn't at all like the soft stuff you find at Home Depot today. You'd be hard-pressed to drive a nail in some of that old stuff. Plenty of floors were made out of Pine 150 years ago.
I believe you'll find the wood from grandpa's door will be just fine.
Once you get all the nails out that is.
That is a project I don't envy.
I've been down that road before.
That’s an option…… I thought, first, I’d take a cutoff wheel and cut the bent end of the nails off, then take a punch and try to drive the nails back through the wood enough to get a pry bar ahold of the head and pry them out. The heads still look pretty solid but they been in that wood a looooong time.The easiest way to disassemble the door is to cut out the top and bottom boards - the "rails". Saw off a few inches from both ends away from the verticals. If those nails are truly random and all through those pieces, will be best to cut apart with a sawzall. Obviously this won't be a door anymore just a pile of wood parts. Lots of knife handles.
Love this forum so far. Lot of people who just want to help. I’ve been kinda haunting this place ever since I’ve been making blades. Gotten a lot of good ideas off of it. If I can figure out how to get pictures on here I’d love for you guys to give me some idea on how to make them better. I’ve tried copy and paste. Didn’t work
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Here is how I post images. The idea here is to get a link, which you can paste directly into the body of your message. You do NOT need to be a paying member of BF OR create an account with imgur for this to work. Go to Imgur.com, and click on the things I have circled in red below (this is on my ipad - I don’t know if it works exacrly the same on a desktop, but it should be similar):
>>>>> Paste the code you just copied directly into the body of your message and it should show up.
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Sometime with old nails it helps to drive them IN again (just a bit) before you try to pull them out. Just loosens the surrounding enough to make them move easier.
As for photos - if you are working off a computer you can just drag and drop your photos. No need for a hosting site. Helps if you have the capacity to resize your photo. 110 pixels per inch with a 7"to 8" max width in any direction works very well. I believe you need to be a paying member to post photos directly though.
As for photos - if you are working off a computer you can just drag and drop your photos. No need for a hosting site. Helps if you have the capacity to resize your photo. 110 pixels per inch with a 7"to 8" max width in any direction works very well. I believe you need to be a paying member to post photos directly though.
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If I’m not mistaken, you need to be a paying BF member for that to work. I am often wrong, though…
Thanks, I’ll try thisHere is how I post images. The idea here is to get a link, which you can paste directly into the body of your message. You do NOT need to be a paying member of BF OR create an account with imgur for this to work. Go to Imgur.com, and click on the things I have circled in red below (this is on my ipad - I don’t know if it works exacrly the same on a desktop, but it should be similar):
>>>>> Paste the code you just copied directly into the body of your message and it should show up.
By golly! It worked! I have more pics on my phone I need to transfer to my tablet.
Thanks Tom
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Thank you. I try to help as much as I can. Got a few knives under my belt nowadays. Made most of the mistakes a guy can make. Still ain't made an absolutely perfect one yet but I keep trying. Even more sheaths so the offer, A Atmotech extends there too! We have a subsection here on BF called Sheaths and Such and I help out there often with the leather working questions.
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Found these old guys cleaning up our corrals the other day prior to bringing in the cattle. Hope your nails are a lil more modern. Hand forged and square:
As an aside - I don’t know what types of knives interest you primarily, or how much time you have to waste, but if you haven’t already checked out the Traditionals sub-forum (AKA “The Porch”), there may be some things there worth looking at and discussing:
https://www.bladeforums.com/forums/traditional-folders-and-fixed-blades.773/
One of my favorite threads there:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/a-walk-in-nature.1788200/
There is also this:
Let's see your good old basic fixed blades, Bowie's, Stickers, etc.
A discussion in another thread here brought this subject up. The young member was wondering if other forumites could offer any advice on the subject of the medium to large fixed blades. And I thought a thread broadening the subject a bit and detailing uses of this most basic of knife designs...
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