three for the swap and one (now) for myself

[brettlandon]

After making three of these for the swap, I decided to make one for myself.  The scales are jarrah and osage.  I can't wait to flesh out a hide with this one!

         

-Brett

[Kingstaken]

great lines in the handle.

[B M A]

nice work.

[skullworks]

Love it!

[drewsbow]

very cool :0)

[ishiwannabe]

Sweet design. Great work.

[Jeremy]

OK, give it up!  How do you do the handles?!

 

[brettlandon]

Okay Jeremy, I wanted to build another anyway.  First I make a handle blank out of 3/4" material.  For this one I'll use black cherry.  Then I make some (osage) laminations 3/4" x 1/16.

Next I attach my arc cutter to my bandsaw.

Then I draw the knife handle on the blank and determine where I want the arc to cut.  Note the green pattern, this is the one I used before to measure my additional arcs.

Next I clamp the blank in the jig and cut the arc.

After soaking the osage for about ten minutes, I wet and apply gorilla (polyeurathane) glue to both pieces of my blank.

Then clamp and wait for four hours.

That's basicly it.  I clean up the glue and do it again (twice), and cut out the handle shape.  I drill the pin holes, then split the scales in the band saw leaving the rough cuts out and apply to the knive.  Lot's of fun, but very time consuming.    

-Brett

P.S.  I determined the arc size based on what the center of the handle arc was.

[skullworks]

Wow! That looks time consuming but the scales more than make up for it!

[brettlandon]

Here's the rest of the pics.

The new wood is jarrah.  Hope you enjoy these pics.

-Brett

[brettlandon]

Next arc is maple.


-Brett

[p1choco]

Too cool.  Nice work.    

[B M A]

Thanks for showing how you did your arc.  nice work.......

[sticshooter]

Now that is sweet work right there! Awesome.<><

[Doug Campbell]

Very nice pictorial Brett, thanks for taking the time      

[Leftieshot]

Thats awesome!