LouisianaJoe
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Several years ago, I won a karma that was a piece of birdseye maple from ACP230. I put it away with the intention to use it for making a knife. I believe that it was before 2009. We built a new house in 2009 and recently I found the piece of maple. The thing that was interesting about it was that the birds eyes were on the edge, not the sides.
Over a year ago, I cut the piece in half using my band saw and then cut one of the halves in 2 pieces again. I bought a knife blade from Jantz.
I epoxied one side on the blade.
I did not touch it again for almost a year.
A few weeks ago I started finishing the knife. I sanded the wood almost to the shape of the blade and used the holes in the blade as a template to drill holes into the wood that was attached to it.
I then epoxied the other piece to the other side of the blade.
I drilled through the wood previously drilled to create the holes on the new piece. I finished shaping the wood to the blade.
I used some Aqufortis that I used on a muzzleloader that I built over 20 years ago to stain the scales on the knife. Aqufortis has nitric acid in it and that will react with the sugar in the maple to make the curl and birdseyes pop out.
After putting in the rivets, I hand rubbed 8-10 coats of tung oil into the wood. I then waxed it with guitar wax. I polished the blade some and put a razor edge on it. Here is the almost finished product. I still have a little fine tuning to do on the blade.
Over a year ago, I cut the piece in half using my band saw and then cut one of the halves in 2 pieces again. I bought a knife blade from Jantz.
I epoxied one side on the blade.
I did not touch it again for almost a year.
A few weeks ago I started finishing the knife. I sanded the wood almost to the shape of the blade and used the holes in the blade as a template to drill holes into the wood that was attached to it.
I then epoxied the other piece to the other side of the blade.
I drilled through the wood previously drilled to create the holes on the new piece. I finished shaping the wood to the blade.
I used some Aqufortis that I used on a muzzleloader that I built over 20 years ago to stain the scales on the knife. Aqufortis has nitric acid in it and that will react with the sugar in the maple to make the curl and birdseyes pop out.
After putting in the rivets, I hand rubbed 8-10 coats of tung oil into the wood. I then waxed it with guitar wax. I polished the blade some and put a razor edge on it. Here is the almost finished product. I still have a little fine tuning to do on the blade.
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