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The bottom one has two pins also, the back pin is quite thick and is hidden.

Bird & Trout Mark II (top knife) - 90% completed. It still needs the bolster edges filed down/sanded, more oil rubbed into the handle and final sanding/polishing etc...
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Mark II is slowly getting built. Spent this morning shaping the bolster, peening the pins and filing. I will start sanding once I've pinned/epoxied the handle scales.
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The light makes the blade look funny, but this should give you an idea of scale.

http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv164/Bull_Raging/P1040648-1.jpg

Cheers.

I'll take a photo tomorrow. Its only a small B & T - the handles around 3.5" and the blades around 3.6-7".

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Plans changed. Have completed one of the two knives, it still needs a little bit of work.

Bird & Trout Mark I

Handle: Casuarina
Pins: Stainless x2 (1 hidden)
Bolster: Brass
Blade: L6...

Yeah it came out well, better than the original acrylic handle.

Finished. Oiled, waxed and polished.

http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv164/Bull_Raging/P1020071.jpg
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Update photo (as you can see I cocked up the handle end, but its still fits nicely).

I have managed to fit and shape handle for my restoration project, I used cutlers rivets which were generously...

Thank you for your reply John.

I'm was looking at expanding the existing holes to fit a bigger rod, I may have to go to plan B and stick with the guard holes that are drilled to clear a 3/32" rod...

Sabatier chef knife handle is all epoxied and ready for cutting, shaping and rivets.

Knife bolster 2 piece (Stainless 316) has be shaped and ready to be fitted to one of the B & T blanks.

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In their current state they would probably still be more comfortable/user friendly than that finger groove Gerber, bastard thing.

Will get at least one of them blooded before you leave.

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My bird & trout blank (s) turned up last week from Darren (Zedteq knives New Zealand).

Darren made them to my specs/design, keeping me in the loop from start to finish. I'm very pleased with...

To be honest I have no idea, quite possibly, they were amongst of box of stuff from my brother (a former Industrial design student).

Hi Rimfire NZ,

Yeah, I've been thinking of getting a few blanks cut for a while now, was going to get the water cut through a local agent but he seems to have closed down now. For this...

Sabatier Chef knife - Handle removed, will clean it up later today.

http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv164/Bull_Raging/P1010665.jpg

Out of curiosity I cut some Sambar scales today to compare...

Interesting. I will test them tomorrow.

Cheers.

Hi John,

Thank you for your recommendations an advice on fitting the handles.

The whole idea with the leather was to have black spacers between the tang and antler scales, purely for...

Follow up on the bird & trout knife blank thread. However, I now have two projects. I have a few questions, see below. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

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