Pommel for Western knife

In 1911, H. N. Platts, was able to draw on his extensive friendships and family connections in the cutlery world to start Western States Cutlery and Manufacturing of Boulder Colorado. At first only a jobbing business, by 1920 construction and machinery purchases were underway to begin manufacture of knives. Through name changes--to Western States Cutlery Co. in 1953, then Western Cutlery Co. in 1956--and moves first across town and later to Longmont Colorado, the company stayed under the leadership of the Platt family until 1984. In that year, the company was sold to Coleman, becoming Coleman-Western. Eventually purchased by Camillus in 1991, Western continued until Camillus expired in 2007.
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Casey123
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Pommel for Western knife

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I'm refurbishing a western knife for a friend. Does anyone know where to get the pommels?
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I see leftover Western parts pop up on eBay occasionally. I see blanks of that knife a lot, but I haven't seen a pommel.
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Yea they're hard to find.
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I think probably the easiest thing to do is make your own from a piece of aluminum.
About the second knife my son made he put an aluminium pommel on it. I asked him where where he got the pommel and he said "I made it."
Even knowing he made the pommel I wouldn't have been able to pick out his pommel in a pile of knives with factory-made pommells. He did a very good job on it!

I was shocked how easily he made it and how good it looked.
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