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Les, Thanks so much for your help. I did not think about pressing them in. It sounds like it would work well and avoid the need to do high temp soldering on a heat treated blade. Do you use a thousandth or so interference for the fit? I really do like the idea of using them to align the...

All, I have a couple of questions for those of you that use standoffs and screws to hold on removable handle scales. I have always used pins or Corby bolts but I have a request to make the scales on a user removable and I am trying to work out the design and process. First, do you somehow...

I am currently working with a piece of 5/32 S30V that came to me ground (a bit rough). Unfortunately, the piece has a lot of bowing. I have had success straightening ATS 34 and and CPM 154 by heating it to about 500 degrees in my furnace, straightening it quickly and then running a stress relief...

Stout is probably the best descriptor I have heard (my wife says "ugly and fat"). It is a mixture of so many styles it is hard to figure out its real purpose but I did enjoy making it. It was my first solderless guard and steel pommel and I learned a lot in the process. Randy

All, I always wanted a Randall Bushmaster but could never afford one. I finally decided to make my own version just for the heck of it. What do you think? ATS 34 Steel, Paul Bos heat treat. Handle is black linen micarta with ironwood, stainless and black vulcanized fiber spacers. Guard and...

Thanks to all for the positive comments. I really need to come up with better photos. Time for another hobby. Randy

It is a Christmas present and she has told me she intends on being there when he opens it. I asked for pictures.

I am relatively new to this forum but have been making knives for awhile. I am starting to do more now that I am retired. Here is a piece I just finished for a two tour Iraq vet. He was just discharged and his mother asked me to make him something special patterned after the Chris Reeve Green...