Hack

I've been putting this one off for a year or so. I found this cleaver blade in the basement when excavating to build out the wine cellar. I found that the company made these until around the late 1800's. The handle is made from a piece of scrap walnut I had laying around. This is my first knife handle.

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frankp

Hack, how do you put the rivets/brads/whatever they are through? I have some good blades that the handles have been coming off of and would love to replace the handles with some nice woods.

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Hack

I purchased what are called "blind bolt rivets" from this place...

http://www.knifeandgun.com/

It's basically a threaded steel rod and two round "nuts" at either end. They don't have a picture of the ones I used on their website. I asked them for a catalog. They were only ~4 bux.

I used a transfer punch to mark the hole locations, then drilled and counter-bored for the rivets. I applied epoxy to the assembly and screwed it together (the brass "nuts" have a slot for a screwdriver). Once the epoxy cured I started carving the shape on the handle.

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Hack (a.k.a. Jeff)