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so, I put the scale on the knife, against the bolster. There is a little gap. Nothing too bad, but I can work with it. Showing the gap a bit more.

so, I decide that I want to remove some of that epoxy off of the end of the spacer. I touch it with the file. big mistake. I touch it 1 too many times. When I put it back on the knife, I look at the gap, and start to cry. Well, not really, but I'm not happy either. So, now I'm mad at...

ok, back to the scale I glued up yesterday. I take the clamps off. Not too bad. I would have liked everything to be a bit tighter, but over all. I give it about a 6 out of 10. What you don't see, is that there was a little epoxy on the end of the spacer (this would be between the spacer...

So, I decide I don't like the pin outline. I figure that when I peened them, I didn't hammer them hard enough. I decide to try something a little different. I take a punch, and decide, as accurately as possible, I'm going to pound the crap out of the pin. My thinking, is to basically mash...

flip the knife over.. Time to file on the other side. starting A little more getting flush flush. But, I don't like that you can see the pin outline

ok, got to spend a few hours on the knife today. I decided I wanted to clean up the bolsters. The last thing I wanted, was to make scales for the bolsters, only to find out something was wrong with the pins. So, I first started to file down the pins with the B4stard file. Starting out...

steve -- I was afraid of a sloppy joint. Hence the bend.

Thanks! Taking pictures keeps me honest. I have to think about things (or at least attempt to), because i'm looking for feedback here. I dream about the day when I'm a famous knifemaker, getting $5000 for a blade, and I can look back at this thread and chuckle. ;-) Although, as long as...

ok, moment of truth. Time to clue the spacer to the scales. I don't know if I did this right. I really had to do a lot of juggling to even get this close. I would appreciate some feedback on if I did this correctly. It wouldn't have been to bad, but I couldn't get that 90* section...

ok, then it hit me. I have to sand this stuff. Plus, I can tell from just a little cutting, this isn't fun to breathe. I borrowed a wood rasp from a buddy. That shapes it really nice. Filed down with the wood rasp. I'm going to have to get one of these for my 2nd knife.

So, back to cutting scales. I decided to try a hacksaw. That worked much, much better. It cuts more like really soft metal, than wood. Making some cuts down to the outline Cutting a good sized hunk off Rough cut outline.

So, I go back, and cut another spacer out. This time it worked ok. Still, I didn't learn from my last mistake. I still cut the spacer too close. I need to leave a little more room next time.

Ok, I've never cut stabilized wood before. This is tough stuff. So first I try with this saw. Yeah, that ain't working....time to think about it some more.

Ok, breathe, breathe...take a breather from the stupidity I just did. I decide to work on the scale. I hit it with a 9/32 drill bit, to rough it up, so the epoxy has more places to grab between the scale and the spacer. Why 9/32? Just what I grabbed out of the box, because it looked good...

So, once I have the spacers cut out, I scribe a line. This will be the joint, where the spacer bends up at a 90* angle, against the bolster. Everything looking good so far And then I bend it. However, I bend it the wrong direction. I then been it back. Oops. Now, because I cut the...

I also want to use some spacers. I actually want to use them between the tang and the bolsters. The plan is to scribe a line on the spacer material, and bend it up, so that it's at a 90. It sits between the scales and the bolsters/tang. I don't know yet if I'm going to end up doing that. You...

Next pic, shows the scales. They are green scales. I would like to thank Mark Farley from It's a Burl http://burlsales.com/ for supplying them. I actually won them from a drawing he had here on the forums. Once I got them from him, I started planning out how I was going to do this...

so, I put the scales on the tang to see how they would line up. There was a little bow on one of the bolsters, where I didn't sand it flat. screwed up somehow. oh well. So, I decieded to try and take it down a bit. I colored the bottom side of the bolster (tip of the knife is pointing down...

So, got to work on the knife earlier today. Took the C-Clamp off. You can see some of the JBWeld that squeezed through. One side: The other side:

Thanks for sharing. Love it!