what to use to re attach this handle.

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so at a garage sale we found this hunting style blade its somewhat like a skinner. well anyways its really thin and would be a fantastic slicer but it seems the handle has come off the knife. it has a rat tail tang and a wooden handle. so i would like to attach it back to the knife. i thought of using epoxy would work well but if the community knows something that would work better im all ears. and now pics:
noticeable gap between knife and handle.
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tang
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and handle opening.

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Ed Fowler said:
I would sure like to see a photo of the blade!
thanks
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hows this
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oh yea total cost of knife..... 5 cent cad lol.

edit oh yea and aparently some idiot took it to a grinder but i managed to restore a somewhat proper bezel on it.
 
I like it and thanks for the photo.

Just for grins I would post a photo of it up on Bernard Levine's Form and find a little more out about it.

If I wanted to stick the handle back on I would use Brownells Acra Glass also, but would post it up on his first.
 
yea ill post there when i clean the stamp out a bit more.
and ill look into that epoxy.


well it looks like its a modified putty knife.
 
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That tool is a glazier's knife that somebody sharpened. That style is common in Britain. I vote for the epoxy to reattach the wood handle.

Bill
 
For a poor man's epoxy, put slices of plastic bag (the kind you can get anywhere) inside the hole (where the tang will be inserted). Not too much, not too little, and please keep in mind that you'll need space for the tang. Put the tang in a fire until it's hot (doesn't have to change color into red or anything). While it's hot, insert the tang into the hole. The plastic bag slices will be melt because of the heat, thus creating the poor man's epoxy. :D

That is a nice looking blade. 5 cent ? even the regular epoxy costs you more. Nice find !
 
If the tang is wide enough, I would drill and pin it, then epoxy it. Then it would be really tight, and would not ever come out. You would need to grind and sand down the pins flush once done, but it would be really strong then. I guess it just depends on what you will use it for. Great score!
 
Id junk that handle and drill a taper of elk to stick on it.Cool looking blade.I like the plastic bag idea being a notorious tightwad.(-: Have fun.
 
I think I'd take Ed's advice and find out more about it first. You never know...
 
That looks like the kind of blade we use in the printing industry to cut pads of paper apart.

With that kind of tang and handle I would doubt that it would stand up to the work that a hunting knife takes. Not for long anyway.
 
Hard H2O said:
That looks like the kind of blade we use in the printing industry to cut pads of paper apart.

With that kind of tang and handle I would doubt that it would stand up to the work that a hunting knife takes. Not for long anyway.
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i dont plan on battoning with it.. most i think it will see is carrots and onions.
 
I'd save the brass ferrule and go with a new handle, or a nice bit of antler if you want to keep it rustic looking.
 
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