Crawling from the woodwork. Kamissori: My first attempt at a folder, a FF: The "Inja" or "dog" knife: A hunter I like at last; I'm an ardent fan of the Puma White Hunter, have been since 1976, this apple did not fall far from the tree: I do my own HT, am a fan of hollow grinding and have most fun experimenting.My thanks to all contributing knowledge to this forum!
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Pressed leather handle material, reviving an old technique. I have looked at bayonets from the WW eras and could not help but notice that the black, (what I thought was bakelite at first), handles withstood the test of time often better than their wooden counterparts.
A bayonet collector I know pointed out to me that it is actually leather compacted under great pressure. We all see the stick tang leather washer handles, I owned one made by Sabatier and had a hard time adjusting the pommel nut to keep up with the shrinkage of the stacked leather washers. What I'm talking about here is different, two or three layers of laminated leather used as full tang scales: I have been looking and researching a lot on knives during the past two years and have not seen a single leather scale handled knife in all this time. I decided to set out and revive the mainly German technique. Leather will withstand impacts better than wood without cracking or chipping.
Forges. Stonewashing a blade.