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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Boudreaux on May 27, 2009, 11:29:36 pm

Title: Lets see some different handles
Post by: Boudreaux on May 27, 2009, 11:29:36 pm

Lets see some different handles on your knives. I have been making replica antlers to make knife handles out of. Looking for differnt Ideas of all sorts. So lets see them!

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: El Destructo on May 27, 2009, 11:32:53 pm

Elk Antler Scrimshaw....Osage...Cholla Cactus

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Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: redwasp on May 27, 2009, 11:57:33 pm

nice work El D beautiful handles. blades ain't to bad either ::)

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: Timo on May 27, 2009, 11:59:45 pm

A friend sent me a fallow deer shed and wanted a knife made around it. I used the bottom part of the horn for the handle and the rest of it for the stand. The blade is raw Texas material.

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Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: Pappy on May 28, 2009, 06:45:03 am

Here is some of mine,everything from deer leg bone to deer and elk antler. I love leg bones. :)
   Pappy

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Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: boo on May 28, 2009, 08:45:17 am

different?

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Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: grozierguy on May 30, 2009, 11:13:13 am

Since the cholla (at least the stuff I have) is hollow,how do you haft to it and also keep the end caps on?  I was thinking of packing it with epoxy putty by ramming balls if it down the end to make it solid.
Thanks,
Dave

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: El Destructo on May 30, 2009, 02:26:21 pm

Quote from: grozierguy on May 30, 2009, 11:13:13 am

Since the cholla (at least the stuff I have) is hollow,how do you haft to it and also keep the end caps on?  Thanks,
Dave

If I told You....I would have to Kill You....... :P..........actually...all you do is sand the end flat ...and the Wall thickness is enough to glue a Cap on the End....and as for the Center being Hollow...this only helps in the Hafting process....just cut you a slot in the Cholla between the Lattice Fibers....and haft it with Pine Pitch or Epoxy ...and then wrap it with Sinew or Gut....just that simple....and Cholla is as hard as Hickory...so it makes a great Knife Handle

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: Boudreaux on May 30, 2009, 02:44:01 pm

Quote from: El Destructo on May 30, 2009, 02:26:21 pm

Quote from: grozierguy on May 30, 2009, 11:13:13 am

Since the cholla (at least the stuff I have) is hollow,how do you haft to it and also keep the end caps on?  Thanks,
Dave

If I told You....I would have to Kill You....... :P..........actually...all you do is sand the end flat ...and the Wall thickness is enough to glue a Cap on the End....and as for the Center being Hollow...this only helps in the Hafting process....just cut you a slot in the Cholla between the Lattice Fibers....and haft it with Pine Pitch or Epoxy ...and then wrap it with Sinew or Gut....just that simple....and Cholla is as hard as Hickory...so it makes a great Knife Handle

How about we see a how to, or a build along on this? I would like to see it done with pictures.

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: El Destructo on May 30, 2009, 04:47:35 pm

                            Alright ...How about I do one this weekend....Soon enough................... >:D

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: Boudreaux on May 30, 2009, 07:47:03 pm

Quote from: El Destructo on May 30, 2009, 04:47:35 pm

                            Alright ...How about I do one this weekend....Soon enough................... >:D

wizbang, you don't mess around do ya?

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: huntertrapper on May 30, 2009, 09:49:14 pm

Boo that knife is sick! that is awesome looking, like a mountain mans knife!

Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: DanaM on May 31, 2009, 07:25:21 am

 :)

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Title: Re: Lets see some different handles
Post by: _Jon_ on May 31, 2009, 08:05:49 pm

After Greg finished cutting up some Osage at Twin Oaks yesterday I grabbed some scraps and made this handle this afternoon.

(Hey VB show off that new knife handle you showed me a picture of ole buddy, it was a beaut!)

John

Indian Mound, Tennessee

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