The Firts Scandi

[mojofilter]

That's nice mate, what's the wood and what have you used in between the red spacers?? :)

Its curly birch and moose antler, it'll need a good bit took off it to get rid of the ingrained dirt! :)

[leon-1]

Thanks rb, Falcon and PW.

Mojo, a bit of 80 grit will remove it in no time :)

[leon-1]

Well the knife vice started life like this, three plates of 01 tool steel.

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/1908/p1010082small0fq.jpg

With this went four 10mm threaded bars and a couple of bits of wood.

I drilled it out so that I had 4 holes in each of the plates (10.5mm in two of the plates and 12mm in the other which would later be the top one of the three)

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/6353/p1010084small1db.jpg

Add the bars bolts and cut a slot in the middle of the center plate 3.5-4mm in width running lengthways. Add bits of wood four locking bolts and some butterfly nuts and you end up with this.

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/514/p1010087small0pq.jpg

I used the center plate to force the Gaurd into place on the knife, then cut the other bits and drilled a 3mm hole in each and used an abrafile, some warding and needle files to shape the holes to the tang of the knife.

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/736/p1010088small2uz.jpg

After this I fitted the component parts of the knife to the tang using epoxy, this time the center bar was wound down below the gaurd to start of with whilst I started to compress the parts into place on the tang of the knife.

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/1332/p1010089small8uk.jpg

After 16 hours in the press I took the knife out, the resin had set and I could now go to town and start to shape the handle (as you can see here it need it) :D

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/5235/p1010092small4ju.jpg

I used a rasp and metal files to do the shaping whilst the blade was inserted into compressed cardboard and clamped into a multi positional vice.

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/3264/p1010094small6iv.jpg

Then once I had a rough shape I started to go down through the many different grits of paper to start finishing it. This was 150 grit.

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/9500/p1010095small2xb.jpg

This was after 600 grit

http://img147.echo.cx/img147/8160/p1010096small2us.jpg

and so on and so forth untill I ended up with something that looked reasonable :D

[leon-1]

Right Folks this is a seperate thread so that anyone that wishes to know how I made the Scandi is welcome, all the best to anyone that wants to know and any probs give me a yell and I would be quite happy to help.

All the best, Leon