Crafting A Hidden Tang Knife Handle
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- It's been a while in coming, but I'm very excited to bring you this, my first Hidden Tang Knife Handle video as a gift for Dustin at the Art Of Craftsmanship. I learned a bunch in the process and I hope that some of my mistakes will help keep some of you from making the same ones. Let me know what you think in the comments. If you like the video, please like and subscribe.
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Amazing knife! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the comment. Makes all the work of making a video worth it. Best of luck in your making adventures.
I love it. Great video. I really like the new music variety. Thanks again for the knife. I’ll cherish it for a long time.
Why is it ok to use 5-min epoxy to bed the tang if the stuff fails easily?
The forces are entirely different and less exposed to heat from grinding when inside of a handle hole than they are when used to glue scales for a full tang or gluing up a stack for a hidden tang. Most full time knife makers I follow utilize 5 minute for bedding a tang.
Nice
Thanks Barry, kind words are always appreciated! :)
dope
Thanks Tom!
So you covered te tong with teflon tape and wax then pushed in to the epoxy filed hole, that's all fine and good. The part witch one i am missing is then you cleaned out the wax what got staked to the epoxy or you just try to glue the tong to it ??? That would be a barrier between the two epoxy and would not make a good contact.
I just rewatched my video and apparently left that out, nice to know someone is paying really close attention to the steps. :) I just cleaned the entire handle area (tang hole included) with denatured alcohol before glue up, which is a fairly standard practice but I should have mentioned that this also cleans out any residual wax prior to final glue up.
Invest in a wood stove for the shop!
I’ve had that thought a lot, and unfortunately it’s not my space (renting) so putting a hole in for a chimney is out of the question. I’ll get something figured out.
Perfect video to learn to NOT do what you do! Nice gap you left at the top of the first brass separator. 🙄
Thanks for watching and bringing to my attention the fact that I didn’t address that “gap” in my video. When I had the initial glue up failure I had to pry off that top piece of brass and in doing so I compressed the wood on the top corner which appeared as a gap throughout the sanding process. I didn’t get down through that until really late in the sanding process and never got a good image / video of the area. That “gap” is not present in the final product. Since I gave the knife away I failed to get good beauty shots of the knife. I hadn’t noticed any of this before hand so again, thanks for watching and letting me know.
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Were you able to repair it? We've all done it at some point. On a repair like this small gap I think I would've tried grounding up some brass and fill the gap with the ground brass and epoxy after grinding out the dried epoxy from the gap.
@@reneemills-mistretta790 I may have misread your first comment. Are you talking about the gap between the blade and the brass? Or the gap between the 1st brass and the small walnut handle portion? I was not able to close up the small gap between the brass and the knife.
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The gap between the brass & wood handle.
@@reneemills-mistretta790 ok then yeah, it was just compressed wood from when I had to pry it off after the first handle failure and not a gap through the hole thing. Just in that corner. I was able to send down through that.