Stacked Leather Handled Bilton

[Nasty]

Really nice work...looking forward to the next guy to follow Dan's example. Show *us* stuff, add your own touch, start doing some for the guys, eventually take off and be too busy professionally to goof off like we do.

Keep it up and keep posting!

 

[aliloff]

Damn! That is some fine work. Took a great little knife and made it even better. Andy has also mentioned the importance of keeping the leather wet while sanding, and it really seems to work well.

So when you took the leather out of the compression bolt and started sliding it on the tang piece by piece, you used epoxy between each square? Did any squish out and get on the outside surface of the leather, or does that matter?

I don't weld either; I think I would have fitted the split bolt as well as possible and then tried to stick it on with JB Weld and hoped for the best, but your way is obviously stronger.

Thanks very much for sharing.

Norm

Yes the epoxy squished everywhere thank god I cut them oversized, as to the welding I got the idea from someone who rehandled an AC kukri and used JB weld but used wood instead of leather. You can probably use Liquid Steel which another type of epoxy putty.

also the only difference i can tell between this one and my factory K-Bar is the finish the K-Bar feels more slick to the touch.