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.
Next I attach my arc cutter to my bandsaw.
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.
Next I clamp the blank in the jig and cut the arc.
After soaking the osage for about ten minutes, I wet and apply gorilla (polyeurathane) glue to both pieces of my blank.
Then clamp and wait for four hours.
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.
-Brett
P.S. I determined the arc size based on what the center of the handle arc was.
Topic: three for the swap and one (now) for myself (Read 3130 times)
