Fitting scales

[Mojoracinguk]

Does any one have a link to a tutorial?
Making a special little knife to celebrate the birth of my Daughter. Hoping to have a hand/foot print of hers reduced in size and placed on a silver plaque....then I’ll inlay it into one of the scales (material not sourced yet)
This is a first attempt at fitting scales and it will be to a home made blade (nearly finished that bit) so I could really do with good pointers as to the process of fitting the scales (how many pins to use/what material to use for pins/ where to position them)
Many thanks to you

Mojo

 

[Chainsaw]

I used to have one on here but it's disappeared in the blog section. There's more than one on British Blades but found this off the bat.

HTH

Alan

 

[Mojoracinguk]

Cheers.
I'm on it....Ohhh this is gonna get messy :thinkerg:

 

[Chainsaw]

nah it's not too bad, if I can do it you can do it! If you've any Q's ask away, you'll soon end up with something like this;

or this

then getting really hooked and doing some of these

then maybe one of these

I've never done the metalwork though, just the handling

Good luck and post us the results

cheers,

Alan

 

[Mojoracinguk]

Nice Photo’s….did you handle all those?

My first foray into this was a Karesuando stick tang that was given to me. I was fairly confident in doing that one as It was just a plain handle (still my fave/most comfortable knife)

This project I’m probably biting off more than I can chew, as I want to include some sections to the scales and inlay
….plus I saw a pretty nice tutorial on file work for the blade ( well I may aswell seeing as I’m making it)…..so pictures may be some time off

Thanks again and yes I will probably need more questions answering

Mojo

 

[Chainsaw]

I find stick tangs harder than full tangs, all that fiddling with bolsters and the accurate drilling you need to do....

Cheers,

Alan