Repairing Broken Tang????

[JP5]

Wondering the best course of action here. A welder I was referred to said he could build weld it and shape to fit. Wanted to find out what people that had made/repaired blades thought.
I don't want to grind the whole tang down to fit since it wouldn't fit in the case the way it is supposed and it just wouldn't look right.

Thanks

[RezDog]

There are some talented people out there. I have to say I have gotten some crazy things built by welder, but nothing that small. I bet it could be done. I’d say if that welder thinks be can build it up and shape it, he probably can.

[JP5]

There are some talented people out there. I have to say I have gotten some crazy things built by welder, but nothing that small. I bet it could be done. I’d say if that welder thinks be can build it up and shape it, he probably can.

Yeah, he may be able to do a nice job. I don't know much about welding. It was so small I thought it might need something like laser Welding to make it look good. Again, I don't know much about welding. I wish I could get my brother to teach me a little when I'm visiting sometime.

[holli4pirating]

You could also do a covered tang type deal with pins through the cover and tang for strength and stability.

Given that it should be a relatively low stress area, you could probably even solder it and use a heat sink on the blade end of the tang, which is definitely easier, probably lower temperature than welding, and reversible if it doesn't work.

[schwabenchris]

There is a post on a German forum, Koraat describes how he fixxed a W&B Ottoman with a broken tang.

[JP5]

You could also do a covered tang type deal with pins through the cover and tang for strength and stability.

Given that it should be a relatively low stress area, you could probably even solder it and use a heat sink on the blade end of the tang, which is definitely easier, probably lower temperature than welding, and reversible if it doesn't work.

Covered tang? Do you mean having a pin running from inside the tang into the attached piece?

[JP5]

There is a post on a German forum, Koraat describes how he fixxed a W&B Ottoman with a broken tang.

Link to the thread? Hopefully Google translate would be sufficient to understand, or he took a lot of pictures.

[JP5]

Schwabenchris sent me a link to the thread. They silver soldered a broken tang back together. It looked really good. I wish I had the piece that broke off of my razor to do that.

[ScottGoodman]

Find a donor, i will see what I have in the scrap pile.

[schwabenchris]

Schwabenchris sent me a link to the thread. They silver soldered a broken tang back together. It looked really good. I wish I had the piece that broke off of my razor to do that.

Get some piece of carbon steel and start filing? I guess it does not have to be hardened just to keep the blade in the holding system