Traditional fixed blade knives

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Not a lot of woodworking, but fashioned knife handles from spalted maple, desert ironwood, and bocote.   And mounted them on purchased knife blade blanks. 

First cut the handle wood a little over size. Then tape the rough handle pieces over the steel blade blanks to hold the handles firmly to the blades for hole drilling. Then drill 9/32" holes in the wood handles aligning to the holes in the blades. Then cut pieces of 1/8" brass for pins to go through one side handle, blade, and other side handle. Then epoxy the handle to the blade and epoxy the pins in place. Then file and sand the handles to shape. Finished with Osmo top oil.
Good looking, bring on the steaks.    

Ron

real nice knives ron. 

working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

Those look real nice! Strong work. 

Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".

Nice job Ron. I looked at those Russell Green River blanks at Amazoo I have a friend who does a lot of camping, and they looked up to the task. Ended up making some others though. 


Thanks everyone - I made this trio for my niece's husband and their 2 sons - 13 and 5.  The 5 year old will have to wait a while to get his.  I need to make one more for my nephew.

GeorgeWest - these Russell Green River blades are thinner than most. I'll start testing mine soon.
Nice looking knives, Ron!!

Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day

Fine looking wood work there Ron.
Really great assortment of woods you selected. 
Very nice.  I don't know which wood that bottom one is (first picture), but the grain is fantastic
Nice  job, they all look great, hard to pick a favourite.
I always thought Bocote was yellowy green like Laburnum, must be a fair bit of variation in it.