Thread: Antler handled knife

Nice work!


I've mocked up a prototype today for a small game/trout and bird knife (out of wood), to check sizing.

Also cut some antler scales to season/dry for a few weeks, I'll post up some photos this evening sometime in a new thread... because I have quite a few questions I'd like to ask.

Cheers, great thread.

Von Gruff if you felt like knocking together a basic how-to thread on getting started trying to make your first knife I'm sure a lot of the guys (myself included) would be appreciative. I'd love to take a crack at it. The handles look damn difficult. Must take a lot of time and dedication.

If I managed to make anything half as good as your "agricultural" knives I'd be chuffed to bits.

I've worked a lot with wood, but a wood knife is about as useful as tits on a bull

Originally Posted by leathel

what glue/ resign do you use to fit the handles?

I have a large old hacksaw blade that someone has shaped in to a large knife...thought I might chuck a handle on to use it to track clear

then when time pemits I must try to make an every day knife

I use one of the two pot epoxy's like araldite (not the 5 minute stuff though) and run some file rings arround the pins to give enhanced hold areas.
My best little rabbit knife I made from a comercial hack saw blade. It takes a heck of an edge.
Sharpenable circular saw blades ( not the tipped ones thogh) make good blades and I have used a piece from a saw mill band saw blade that exploded when it hit a steel dog in a log.

Von Gruff.