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Make a leather grip for your knife to add to your collection.

As all knife collectors know, there are quite a few different types of knives on the marketplace, depending on the size, material, shape, performance and many other components. One of the most gorgeous kinds regarding knives is the Scandinavian type with a leather handle. Having some custom, handmade leather carry out for your knife can be a fantastic addition for your collection or simply an interesting also practical artifact within your home.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

things you'll require:

Utility knife Marker Drill Epoxy Clamp Hammer Coping saw Cyanoacrylate glue Sandpaper Wood polish

1 Cut 1/8-inch thick leather into tiny rectangular pieces, roughly 1 1/3 inch by 1 ¾ inch. Make use of a pointed utility knife or a comparable tool to lower the leather. The dimensions of the little pieces at last depend on the size regarding the cope with you want to generate. Regardless, the size may be adjusted later if the pieces are slightly bigger.

2 Mark the center on each tiny leather rectangle by any marker. For some medium size knife, you will commonly require somewhere from 30 to 40 bits of leather, depending on their thickness.

4 Collection the leather pieces of your knife handle on top regarding each other. If you want to use metal spacers among the leather pieces, location them on such way that they are symmetrical. To example, there should always be the very same number of leather bits between the butt cap plus the back spacer and between the bolster also the top spacer.

5 Location the arranged pile of leather bits plus spacers to a clamp and secure it firmly in thems location to check if every bit is on buy.

6 Apply a small quantity of epoxy between every leather piece and collection all the pieces from the exact order on the tang. A tang yous the metal from the knife that extends to the cope with. You will insert the tang in the hole that you made on the leather pieces. Carry on until you organize all the leather pieces and the spacers and later squeeze the whole assembly in the clamp. Tighten the clamp since much as possible and leave the leather control in it for on least three days. Adjust the clamp regularly around the next few days.. Before you depart the grip to dry, add a rivet washer of your preference on hers closure and nail it into place with some hammer.

7 Shape the cope with inside the shape you want by using a coping saw for rough shaping and sandpaper for very good polishing and adjusting. Following three days in the clamp, the epoxy remains completely dry plus tough and produces any sturdy working area together with the leather bits.

8 Apply numerous cyanoacrylate glue to the surface of the handle and allow it to dry for fifty percent an hour. Subsequently treat it with sandpaper and then repeat the whole process once once again.

9 Employ wood polish to the leather surface of your new handmade knife control.

The color of leather that you may operate is completely increase to you but note that after the glossing or polishing, the color will appear much darker. When selecting metal spacers, have in mind that is they will get significant influence on the shape of the blade. Be very careful whilst working with tools such as clamp and hammer also always wear durable working gloves.

References

Brisa: How to Make a Leather Handled Knife

hunting knife on white image by Kathy Burns from website

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