Buffalo Horn Skinner
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:13 pm
Bored again, so a small project. A little skinner, a working knife. Buffalo horn scales. First step, make a pattern for the scales.
Just cut it out of a piece of manilla folder.
I have a bunch of scale options in the drawer, but had chosen the buff horn for this knife. Whenever we go down to Jantz for supplies, Miss T always looks at the various scale material and this one caught her fancy. She liked the contrast and pattern. It was on sale and we tossed it in the drawer, I knew I'd get around to it eventually.
As the scales would be a tad thin for my tastes as is, and ONE was a little banana'd (curved) I glued them to a liner, cutting the liner a tad oversized to start. This makes it much easier for the glueup as you are still on the liner if you slip. Simple to trim the liner down on the bandsaw and dress it up on the sander, plus any minor overage will be buffed away during shaping.
Using double sided tape and a Clamp I put the two scales together after I marked them and roughed them out on the bandsaw, and then drilled the holes for the pins. This way I knew they couldn't slide during glueup. A trick I learned ... where else? You tube.
The new benchtop drill press made the job a lot easier.
Just cut it out of a piece of manilla folder.
I have a bunch of scale options in the drawer, but had chosen the buff horn for this knife. Whenever we go down to Jantz for supplies, Miss T always looks at the various scale material and this one caught her fancy. She liked the contrast and pattern. It was on sale and we tossed it in the drawer, I knew I'd get around to it eventually.
As the scales would be a tad thin for my tastes as is, and ONE was a little banana'd (curved) I glued them to a liner, cutting the liner a tad oversized to start. This makes it much easier for the glueup as you are still on the liner if you slip. Simple to trim the liner down on the bandsaw and dress it up on the sander, plus any minor overage will be buffed away during shaping.
Using double sided tape and a Clamp I put the two scales together after I marked them and roughed them out on the bandsaw, and then drilled the holes for the pins. This way I knew they couldn't slide during glueup. A trick I learned ... where else? You tube.
The new benchtop drill press made the job a lot easier.