A growing number of collectors customize their automatic knives by changing scales, bolsters, blades, doing fileworks, ... Wether you're a guru or just a wannabe knife modder, this is the place to discuss it!
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Hi TR
Indeed,now you ARE in for it. Many hours in the shop and the moaning chair before you find homes for all that scale material
Careful with the ivory;stick with hand tools,it doesn't like hot spots.
Mr PB and Mr WJC;you wouldn't be the first.In an older edition of Knives annual is pictured a knife a fellow had hafted with his own femur,smooth finish,no flesh attached.Thank goodness there isn't a human counterpart to oosic, nor a source for same.
Regards,Diggaway
You advice is right on the money. The grocery store doggy bone, once I cut it up, proved to be good and dense, the right color (the bleached white surface was only about 1/16" deep, so inside it is a creamy white color with a very slight grain), the right price ($2.99), and stinks like hell when you saw or sand it. You warned about that.
So it's just about perfect for what I was trying to do. Thanks.
I'm turning into W.C. Fields; buying and hoarding materials I'v got no immediate use for. That load of stuff I just ordered may go to the sidelines in deference to a 3 dollar dog bone. Got to love it.
Note to self: Go buy some incense or something.
Other note to self: Build more knives.
