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Tang For Knife


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On a knife the thickest part is where the blade and tang meet. As the tang is uniform or tapered you can then slide a guard up it until it lodges at the junction of blade and tang. Some knifemakers will use a low temp silver bearing solder like stay-brite to solder the two together without messing up the heat treat of the blade.

All this should be explained in your knifemaking book---you do have one like "Step by Step Knifemaking" or "The Complete Bladesmith"? Or do you expect a couple of paragraphs on the net to be as good as several hundred pages in a good source book?

I'd suggest you go to your local library and ILL both these books and others and decide which ones you might want to own---christmas is coming! (I usually provide a list of books to my family so they can always buy me a gift that I really want!)

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