...my latest scandi. A well known fella here at BCUK, Paganwolf/PW/JP, contacted me about making him a knife. I made him a knife and now he wants me to do this "tutorail" thing too....
Well, we started talking about materials, blades and so on. What kinda style he wanted and such things. After a while I made some quick sketches and we agreed on what direction to go.
After these initial decisions, it was up to me to make it look and feel good.
Here´s a pic of my final drawing. I use the drawing to make the pieces get the right size when making them.
I didn´t get any pics while making the pieces for this handle. But at BB I have pics of this procedure when making another knife.
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5699&page=2&pp=15
Anyway, I´ll be drilling the pieces with small drills, and using tiny files to get the holes up to the right fit against the tang.
Here´s all parts, except the butt piece, drilled and ready for glueing.
I also file the tang like this for extra strength.
Then I glue the parts is my home made press. First the bolster piece, and let it dry over night (using 24h glue), the the rest of the pieces, except the last one.
Now I see where I need to cut the tang and how deep into the buttpiece to drill. I use a small miller bit to get this to a really snug fit. I prefer not to rivet to get fredom in forming the end the way I want.
After all this is done, the fun really starts... shaping the handle!
I use a belt grinder to get it down to size. Then when the real shaping begins, rasps and files are my favourite tools to get it right. I often stop and look at my progress under strong light, to see how the shadows falls on it when turning the knife around. All this to get it as symmetrical as possible.
More to come. Take care guys!
/Peter
Well, we started talking about materials, blades and so on. What kinda style he wanted and such things. After a while I made some quick sketches and we agreed on what direction to go.
After these initial decisions, it was up to me to make it look and feel good.
Here´s a pic of my final drawing. I use the drawing to make the pieces get the right size when making them.
I didn´t get any pics while making the pieces for this handle. But at BB I have pics of this procedure when making another knife.
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5699&page=2&pp=15
Anyway, I´ll be drilling the pieces with small drills, and using tiny files to get the holes up to the right fit against the tang.
Here´s all parts, except the butt piece, drilled and ready for glueing.
I also file the tang like this for extra strength.
Then I glue the parts is my home made press. First the bolster piece, and let it dry over night (using 24h glue), the the rest of the pieces, except the last one.
Now I see where I need to cut the tang and how deep into the buttpiece to drill. I use a small miller bit to get this to a really snug fit. I prefer not to rivet to get fredom in forming the end the way I want.
After all this is done, the fun really starts... shaping the handle!
I use a belt grinder to get it down to size. Then when the real shaping begins, rasps and files are my favourite tools to get it right. I often stop and look at my progress under strong light, to see how the shadows falls on it when turning the knife around. All this to get it as symmetrical as possible.
More to come. Take care guys!
/Peter
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we use knives every day and most have a scandi of one description or another, so its great to see how ones like this are constructed, most of us are knifaholics (some closet ones :rolmao: ) so this is a nice fix, ands its not every day you see a knife being born :shock: 
:biggthump (by the way Pete it arrived at my parents house as i did'nt want it turning up while im down under, ive not told my Pa what it is or ill get a "pre fondled" knife when i get home and I want a virgin :rolmao: )
