Just makes it worth that much more.And you can see my greatest frustration, a double image on the touch mark. Dammit.
What do you expect its finished weight to be?
Love the brass on there
It's getting interesting now, close to the finish.
Looking good.Ok. Handle fit-up was...interesting. The Bonechopper is still fighting me every step of the way. In my previous knives, parts fit-up went smoothly and I was able to dry-fit the bolsters and scales and pin them in place before grabbing the epoxy and everything went smoothly.
Well, my experience the other night fitting and epoxying the brass bolsters told me I'd be in for a challenge today. Parts that had gone together just fine for rough shaping suddenly didn't go together right for final fitting, and today was no exception.
So once I got the wood roughly cut and in place, I drilled the pin holes so they would line up perfectly when the scales are snugly between the brass guard and pommel pieces. The time came to dry fit and...
Nope. No good. The pins couldn't go through. I sanded the pins and...nope. They'd go through each scale and they'd go through the tang, but not through more than one at a time.
So I lost a couple of hours driving to town to buy 30 minute epoxy, because my usual 5 minute epoxy was going to guarantee a disaster.
When I got home, I cut the handle pins extra long and tapered one end like a sharpened pencil.
Then I mixed the epoxy and slathered it on, slid the handle scales in place and tapped the pins in like nails.
Here's where we are now.
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Closeup on the tapered pins