A while back I was privileged to have offered to buy a knife that Bruno's lovely daughter had forged. It was right before my summer ride on the Harley so I asked Bruno to just hang onto it.
https://sharprazorpalace.com/non-sha...-daughter.html
To be honest I completely forgot about it till after the ride and I was going through old business on my computer when I ran into the payment for the knife. I sent a message to him and found that Bruno was on holiday and said he would get it in the mail once he was home.
He is a man of his word as the knife landed here at the Boars Nest today well packaged and requiring a signature.
While I can make mediocre scales for straights, I've never made a handle for a knife before but I decided to use some honey horn that I had laying around that was about 5/16" thick with some streaking in it.
It was a real learning experience. I got one curve ball that I didn't see coming. After thinning the blank and getting the saw marks out I used some blue painters tape on the blank so I could easily see the pattern and where the holes were, however once I started to remove it, the damn tape pulled some of the horn off!! :banghead: So back to the bench top sander.
I made some mistakes but for my first try I'm pleased. I just hope Bruno's daughter likes it. She has a gift for this :tu
My apologies for the quality of the pics but even with the light box I bought I can't take a decent picture to save my soul---
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Sharpening it will have to wait, I should have been doing housework instead of making the scales so now I'm even further behind than I was when I awoke this morning.