February 4, 201313 yr These are 1080, 15n20 twisted, 32 layers,and caribou antler tines. The blades are about 2 inches long.
February 4, 201313 yr Beautiful work. Specifically, what method did you use to attach the handles to the blade?
February 4, 201313 yr Now I know I have engineering on the brain--I saw "integrals" and immediately started thinking of calculus.... Needless to say, I definitely like these integrals better. Wouldn't mind having one for a hunting knife
February 4, 201313 yr Author Thank you. To attach the handle I just drew a tendon on the handle end, then notched the tendon for glue retention, and drilled out the antler and epoxied it. I like to also pin them, but since the tines were so small (caribou tines are often flat one way rather than being round) the tendons needed to be small, I thought that I might have a problem with my pin so I skipped it. In hind sight if I had made the tang rectangular in cross section rather than square-octogon I would have had the opotion of pins.
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