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Title: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: brettlandon on February 24, 2008, 10:51:00 PM

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!
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/mypersonalnesmuk.jpg)
   :bigsmyl:      :bigsmyl:  

-Brett

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: Kingstaken on February 24, 2008, 11:03:00 PM

great lines in the handle.

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: B M A on February 25, 2008, 12:29:00 AM

nice work.

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: skullworks on February 25, 2008, 06:49:00 AM

Love it!

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: drewsbow on February 25, 2008, 06:51:00 PM

very cool :0)

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: ishiwannabe on February 25, 2008, 07:00:00 PM

Sweet design. Great work.

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: Jeremy on February 25, 2008, 07:41:00 PM

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

  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: brettlandon on February 26, 2008, 01:57:00 PM

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.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild006.jpg)
Next I attach my arc cutter to my bandsaw.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild005.jpg)
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.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild004.jpg)
Next I clamp the blank in the jig and cut the arc.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild003.jpg)
After soaking the osage for about ten minutes, I wet and apply gorilla (polyeurathane) glue to both pieces of my blank.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild002.jpg)
Then clamp and wait for four hours.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild001.jpg)
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.  :bigsmyl:  

-Brett

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

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: skullworks on February 26, 2008, 02:10:00 PM

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

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: brettlandon on February 26, 2008, 05:41:00 PM

Here's the rest of the pics.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild2001.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild2002.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild2003.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild2004.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild2005.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild2006.jpg)
The new wood is jarrah.  Hope you enjoy these pics.

-Brett

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: brettlandon on February 26, 2008, 09:42:00 PM

Next arc is maple.
 (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild3001.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild3002.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild3003.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild3004.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg5/brettlandon/nessmukhandlebuild3005.jpg)

-Brett

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: p1choco on February 26, 2008, 10:47:00 PM

Too cool.  Nice work.    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: B M A on February 27, 2008, 12:34:00 AM

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

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: sticshooter on February 27, 2008, 06:29:00 AM

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

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: Doug Campbell on February 27, 2008, 08:31:00 AM

Very nice pictorial Brett, thanks for taking the time   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: three for the swap and one (now) for myself
Post by: Leftieshot on February 27, 2008, 10:14:00 AM

Thats awesome!