I cannot do much walking or cycling at the moment - so just keeping busy
Very nice John. Good to see you've kept the manufacture authentic too.Project 63
A knife handle for a friend.
One of the ladies I work with has a repro "Iron Age" knife and it has been in a shocking state since I first saw it years ago ... so with time on my hands I offered to fix it ...
The blade was bent , notched and blunt, the handle string and a bit of antler that used to stay on but fell off all the time now, the tang was rusted and ... well - I could go on...
I replaced the fore end of the handle with a mix of Red Deer antler, horn and leather and glued everything with resin/charcoal dust glue, cleaned up and tried to sharpen the blade (without a full regrind and reheat treating it will never be good!). I did not "over finish it so that it looks a "used tool" in her costume kit. Good enough for site work -View attachment 76195View attachment 76196View attachment 76197View attachment 76198 I hope she likes it!
Nice work there John.The machine has held up brilliantly coping well with up to 3 layers of MOD spec webbing and 2 layers of heavy duty fabric
I was lucky to score a couple of Hickory(?) slasher handles at a sensible price and it was these I cut down for the tool handlesWhat wood do you use for the handles? It's one of the things I enjoy doing, fitting new handles to old tools.