Tusk in a knife

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Danum said:
Not the easiest thing to a add. the problem being making sure the bend of the tusk stays within the profile of the handle.
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Lovely and labour intensive job too.

Seeing the quote above could you have made the handle with a curve in it to help accommodate the tusk curve?
Only my thoughts but I believe that the tusk curve clashes somewhat with the straight handle.
A bit more curve than the 'kukri" style on your knife pages.
 
Here is an old Solingen TV video of a knifemaker (78 & retired) doing some demonstration work in his workshop below his house, real home office stuff.
 
johngryphon said:
Lovely and labour intensive job too.

Seeing the quote above could you have made the handle with a curve in it to help accommodate the tusk curve?
Only my thoughts but I believe that the tusk curve clashes somewhat with the straight handle.
A bit more curve than the 'kukri" style on your knife pages.
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That would probably work. I was making them up from knives that I already had blanks for.
 
I would send the sambar antler over for the handle!

OR as in the pic a choice of scale blocks below,they have been oiled and air dried for six years now.
They are Olive, buloke,red gum and ironbark blocks

scale blocks 2.webp





The red centre blocks are the buloke (bull oak)

scale blocks 1.webp
 
Ah ok and thanks. Iirc just about any desert wood makes for exceptional scales.
I have seen where 100 year old desert wooden fence posts from the arid interior of Aus that had been sliced for scales and the wood/figure was amazing. Old posts that had been weathered for one hundred years really makes for a super wood.
 
johngryphon said:
Ah ok and thanks. Iirc just about any desert wood makes for exceptional scales.
I have seen where 100 year old desert wooden fence posts from the arid interior of Aus that had been sliced for scales and the wood/figure was amazing. Old posts that had been weathered for one hundred years really makes for a super wood.
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I bet old posts would make some great handles. I've never used it before and I am look forward to putting it on something.
 
If you ever see pics of old Aussie outback ruins in the interior you will notice the old fence posts standing on all angles,sun burned and sand blasted and too tough for even a termite,they are the woods that are sought after.
The sort of ruin below that would yield some excellent timber that has been exposed to the really tough elements forever. I bet that there would be some good pickings for a fellow as you.

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johngryphon said:
If you ever see pics of old Aussie outback ruins in the interior you will notice the old fence posts standing on all angles,sun burned and sand blasted and too tough for even a termite,they are the woods that are sought after.
The sort of ruin below that would yield some excellent timber that has been exposed to the really tough elements forever. I bet that there would be some good pickings for a fellow as you.
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I'd love to see a place like that let alone anything else
 
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