Handled some knives

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Docherty

Tenderfoot
May 11, 2010
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Hi folks,

I picked up a couple of dirt cheap mora carving knife blades and fancied a go at making some handles for them out of some fresh apple wood that a neighbour had given me.

Nothing too fancy for a first attempt, I simply filed the tang down to a more uniform shape, clipped their length and hammered them into a cut block of wood before carving and sanding them down.

These fit my banana hands so much better than the standard mora handles.

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I've also knocked up a sheath for one, it's more of a desk tidy than a sheath - I bored a whole into another billet and carved the mouth to accommodate the finger guard of the smaller carving knife and shaped it's profile.

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It keeps it upright on a work bench, safe in a bag and the fit is good and tight :)
 
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Docherty

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May 11, 2010
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After oiling the knives, I used them alongside my new drawknife to whittle my boy a Baby Bush Blade Last night - obviously high carbon, curly birch and mammoth ivory (in his toddler imagination)
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He put it to good use gutting a piece of wild marmite on toast

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