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11-02-2011, 02:44 PM #1Brad Maggard
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A covered tang rebuild
An interesting project..
An ivory tang Rodgers, with shattered ivory.. heres a little picture story of how it got re-built.
Pic1: ground down tang
Pic2: further grinding, drilled out shaft in Ivory Paper micarta. Notched some teeth in the blade's tang so epoxy would hold well. also, it fit so tightly in the shaft, I had to use a rubber mallet to get it all the way in
Pic3: Epoxied in
Pic 4&5: Shaping
Pic6: getting there.. still a little too thick. I took it back to the belts after this.
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11-02-2011, 02:47 PM #2Brad Maggard
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Pic7: Drill..
Pics of finished:
Forgot to mention.. The wedge I made out of a piece of 440C stainless, which was then polished up
Last edited by Undream; 11-02-2011 at 02:50 PM.
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11-02-2011, 02:51 PM #3Member
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Wow!!! An excellent work! Beautiful and well done!
Antoni
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11-02-2011, 03:40 PM #4Poor Fit
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Nice work Brad! Thanks for sharing the steps you took
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11-02-2011, 03:50 PM #5Senior Member
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Thanks for sharing the detailed process. Very cool. I love the result.
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11-02-2011, 04:33 PM #6Senior Member
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Looks great.would have givin you a nice pce of real ivory to do the repair, maybe next time.
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11-03-2011, 11:00 AM #7..mama I know we broke the rules...
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Brad, your skills are out of this world. The whole thing looks amazing. An excellent job.
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11-03-2011, 07:13 PM #8Junior Member
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Great idea and great job. I would have rounded edges and would make the tail a little longer
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11-03-2011, 07:23 PM #9Senior Member
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That's a sexy blade, good job.....
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11-03-2011, 07:31 PM #10Senior Member
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Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!! gets my brain going!!!. Are the tang and scales the same? and would you do that to an all metal blade?
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