I recieved a crooked knife blade from FGYT today and, seeing as it was the weekend, I set to work fashioning a handle for it. I used a number of pictures that I gathered from the web to give me a shape to follow and used a piece of Zebrano wood that I had in my stockpile.
Here's the results.
The wood, cut to the basic shape, ready for carving.
Here you can see the curve of the blade clearly.
The handle has been carved and sanded, a recess cut into the handle for the blade tang , glued and pinned in place and finally, as seems traditional with this kind of knife, binding attached. I used Jute twine.
Some detail of the handle.
Here you can clearly see that the blade is off-set and attached on one side of the handle.
All in all, it wasn't as difficult as I had imagined to make a handle for this knife. The palm up carving style may be a bit more difficult to master. The blade is very sharp and the swept back shape makes it sit very well with the draw knife style of cutting. A very nice blade and I'm looking forward to putting it to good use.
Here's the results.
The wood, cut to the basic shape, ready for carving.
Here you can see the curve of the blade clearly.
The handle has been carved and sanded, a recess cut into the handle for the blade tang , glued and pinned in place and finally, as seems traditional with this kind of knife, binding attached. I used Jute twine.
Some detail of the handle.
Here you can clearly see that the blade is off-set and attached on one side of the handle.
All in all, it wasn't as difficult as I had imagined to make a handle for this knife. The palm up carving style may be a bit more difficult to master. The blade is very sharp and the swept back shape makes it sit very well with the draw knife style of cutting. A very nice blade and I'm looking forward to putting it to good use.
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