Shaping Handles and then flaring tubes

[Brian Avila]

Or, put it all together with some other solid pins and a drop of superglue. Do all your shaping. Knock out the sacrificial pins and bust the superglue loose. Chamfer your holes on your already-contoured handle. Then glue up the knife with your tube stock and epoxy. When it's cured, grind the tube down flush, then flare it.

Not a bad thought.... I am leaning more to the waxing the living hell out of the tubes, epoxy everything together. Remove the tubes after the expoy has set up some. Countersink the holes, and then shape. Epoxy the tubes back in and then flare.

Looking forward to see KalEl's thread.

-Brian-

 

[Salolan]

What about adding an additional pin in the middle of the handle? Make the knife have 2 pins and a tube. Then you could glue the knife up with just the 2 pins, shape the handle, then install the tube and flare it.

Chris

 

[Brian Avila]

What about adding an additional pin in the middle of the handle? Make the knife have 2 pins and a tube. Then you could glue the knife up with just the 2 pins, shape the handle, then install the tube and flare it.

Chris

Chris - I had thought of that ( more along the lines of a hidden pin though ). I have seen the two layard tubes flared before as a final product, the trick is getting it to look the way I want, and making it stress free, fun, and fool proof...