Well then, once again!
I am very glad to read your kind comments. That's like salt in the soup and cheers me up to do my very best. I have some other knife blanks and I would be proud if I can show them here too.
The used wood is black locust. The other parts are: cow bone, nickel silver and paper fiber.
Yes, it was a challenge to make a handle, because it was not possible to make it like I did it before. The other blanks I used had a straight tang. So I drilled two holes in the wood of the handle, worked them out with a file or a saw, filled it with glue and put it together with the layers and the blade.
But the blank fo the 477 is not straight and broadens to the End. And if I make the cave for the tang at the beginning as broad as at the end I couldn't make such a slim handle.
So I split the wood, countersink the silhouette of the tang, filled it with glue and put all together: Blade, layers and wood in one time. But it didn't work as good as I thought. The glue is visible (not shown on the pictures ;-)) ).
Later comes the saw, the file and a lot of sand paper. That's it.
edbeau, it is exciting what you write: I spent my childhood in Neu-Ulm between the late fifties up to 1967. Just a stone's threw away form the US Air Force air field, later four miles away in Senden. Do you know this little town? The house where we lived in Neu-Ulm was in immediate vicinity to the US barracks. And from the soldiers I learned my first English words. The contact to the American guys is one of the first memories I already have. May be that we met us there in the sixties?
Best regards,
Haebbie
