All About Pocket Knives

This beauty was pretty worn. I reshaped the Main into a Wharncliffe (it didn't take much!), and rehandled it in acrylic ($2.99 short pen blank from Woodcraft!) This is the first time that I have replaced scales without taking the knife completely apart. I am building a Stiddy, and was able to glue, clamp, and later pin the scales while the knife was together. I actually did this twice - I cracked both scales the first time, before I had built the Stiddy.
She is going into my EDC rotation.

Nice work!
I’ve used some pen making acrylic material before and it’s a great way to get some really nice colors into your knife handles. It’s fairly easy to work with too.
Jeff

Really turned out very knice Reverand. The handles look great and the blade mod as well. Best one yet.
A picture of your stiddy?

That acrylic is really nice! Great result!

Very nice mod!

That turned out great Reverand! I want to try replacing scales without disassembly. I've got an old Western that's a perfect candidate.

Handles like that could give a lot of old worn out knives new life.
Very nice!
Treefarmer

doglegg wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:39 pm Really turned out very knice Reverand. The handles look great and the blade mod as well. Best one yet.
A picture of your stiddy?

Here you go, doglegg! It ain't much, and it is still a work in progress...but it was cheap! $20 piece of track, sanded flat on top, and a tang built from a piece of angle iron. I have much more that I want to do, but it seems that I spend so much time working on tools that I can hardly work on knives!

Very cool Reverand. Kind of special to make your own tools. Looks good. Thanks.

Thanks for the pic of the stiddy Reverand. I need one of those and you've given me an idea on how to make one.

Cool, looks great!

The knife mod looks great! I like that scale color!

Your stiddy looks nice too.
I have a couple of small anvils and a stiddy similar to yours. The anvils have a hole for driving out pins.

Excellent!

Good work on the knife, it looks really good, but I love your stiddy!
They're actually pretty simple to make, the hard part is getting the top flattened. What did you use to flatten the top, an angle grinder?

Good work on both the knife and the stiddy.

Now you need to turn a pen from the same acrylic so you can have a matching pair.

orvet wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:20 pm Good work on the knife, it looks really good, but I love your stiddy!
They're actually pretty simple to make, the hard part is getting the top flattened. What did you use to flatten the top, an angle grinder?

Dale,
I probably found the hardest way in the world to flatten the top, but it was all that I could think of:
I clamped the piece of track to a 4-ft level, and set it upside-down on a 4x36" belt sander.
I held it as level as I could and just let the weight of the metal pull it down onto the sander.
I had taken a picture if it, but I can't seem to find it.
It seemed like it took hours and hours, but probably wasn't too long.