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Post by paranger on May 27, 2020 5:19:38 GMT -7
I am currently working on converting a Dexter butcher knife into an early English trade knife. After removing the old handle and rivets, I shortened the tang by about an inch, ground it down to half width, and rounded it off consistent with pre-1780s archeological examples.  I am currently working on a cocobolo block for the handle, which I plan to saw lengthwise for 2/3 length and secure with 3 steel pins, filling the bottom gap created by the half width tang with cutler's resin. Stay tuned. |
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Post by hawkeyes on May 27, 2020 7:14:21 GMT -7
Good project blade!
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Post by paranger on May 27, 2020 7:25:40 GMT -7
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Post by Keith on May 27, 2020 14:59:51 GMT -7
I agree with Ben, a good blade for the project.
Keith.
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Post by paranger on May 28, 2020 7:42:29 GMT -7
Shaping the cocobolo handle.  |
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Post by Sicilianhunter on May 28, 2020 12:31:51 GMT -7
PARanger, Excellent link!! Thanks for the info!!! |
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Post by artificer on May 28, 2020 14:22:00 GMT -7
I have often wondered why so many of the ends of the tangs on these knives were rounded? It seems to me that increased the basic cost and since they were going to pin them inside a sawn grip, why go to the bother? Seems to me it would have been easier and cheaper to use either a cold chisel or hot punch to make the ends flat?
Gus
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Post by paranger on May 28, 2020 15:58:48 GMT -7
I have often wondered why so many of the ends of the tangs on these knives were rounded? It seems to me that increased the basic cost and since they were going to pin them inside a sawn grip, why go to the bother? Seems to me it would have been easier and cheaper to use either a cold chisel or hot punch to make the ends flat?
Gus It's an interesting question - one to which I have no answer. The archeological examples seem to be universally rounded, for whatever reason. |
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Post by Black Hand on May 28, 2020 16:47:04 GMT -7
I have often wondered why so many of the ends of the tangs on these knives were rounded? It seems to me that increased the basic cost and since they were going to pin them inside a sawn grip, why go to the bother? Seems to me it would have been easier and cheaper to use either a cold chisel or hot punch to make the ends flat?
Gus If forged, a square end would be less likely...? |
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Post by artificer on May 28, 2020 20:15:43 GMT -7
I have often wondered why so many of the ends of the tangs on these knives were rounded? It seems to me that increased the basic cost and since they were going to pin them inside a sawn grip, why go to the bother? Seems to me it would have been easier and cheaper to use either a cold chisel or hot punch to make the ends flat?
Gus If forged, a square end would be less likely...?
I suspect the rounded end may have been more for adding and finishing the grip, but that is a huge guess on my part.
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Post by paranger on May 30, 2020 12:28:04 GMT -7
Finished product. Shaped and slotted the handle, then fitted and pinned. Next, I mixed up cutlers resin from rendered pine tar from pitch I collected from my pine trees and mixed with brick dust from 18th c. bricks.  |
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Post by paranger on May 30, 2020 12:29:40 GMT -7
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Post by paranger on May 30, 2020 12:30:31 GMT -7
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Post by brokennock on May 30, 2020 22:54:54 GMT -7
Nicely done sir.
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Post by paranger on May 31, 2020 6:42:01 GMT -7
And finally...PC back seam sheath from 5 oz. veg. tanned cowhide.  |
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