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Post by RambleTree on Feb 8, 2022 17:02:22 GMT
I have a Buck 119 on order from their 'custom shop': www.buckknives.com/custom-knife/customizable-119-special-knife/CKS119/- S30V satin, no groove - Brass pommel/guard - Ironwood grip I was curious about the assembly and came across this cool video: Looks similar to Ka-bar construction; pressure down on pommel, pinned through perpendicular to the tang. The Buck process looks like the pin ends up slightly 'riveted', rather than simply pressure-fitted. All kinds of brainstorms happening now for this assembly method . . . - Ontario SP10 Marine Raider Bowie has a similar tang setup. Probably not too hard to shape a similar pommel out of bar stock. - Wondering how this would hold up as a pommel assembly method on full-sized swords . . .
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Post by LeMal on Feb 8, 2022 18:21:55 GMT
It not only would hold up just fine, there are a number of historical swords (Byzantine, Avar) whose pommels were attached exactly that way. (And I've done a number of similar rehilts, going back almost forty years. :p )
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Post by LeMal on Feb 8, 2022 18:25:32 GMT
In fact, if you want an easy circular pommel using modern it's-at-the-hardware-store cheats--but also an easy ability to "tune" (though I hate using that word) the pommel weight to your liking? One word. "Washers." Washers, then just coat with JB Weld and sand/carve to shape.
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Post by RambleTree on Feb 9, 2022 21:23:40 GMT
LeMal - cool stuff! Would love to see pics of that construction. Re: washers - oriented which way in relation to the tang? ---llll (tang passes through the washer holes; shape the cylinder however you like) or ---O (build up a disc, then drill a tang slot parallel to the flats) Just realizing the 'washer pommel' could be its own thread, if not already started.
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Post by LeMal on Feb 9, 2022 21:41:57 GMT
LeMal - cool stuff! Would love to see pics of that construction. Re: washers - oriented which way in relation to the tang? ---llll (tang passes through the washer holes; shape the cylinder however you like) or ---O (build up a disc, then drill a tang slot parallel to the flats) Just realizing the 'washer pommel' could be its own thread, if not already started. Either way! ;) I've done both. The first I've done most often, as you might suspect, when it's a threaded tang. You can make globular and similar pommels nicely that way by washers of ascending and descending sizes. I do tend to like the second better though. I.e. with the washers oriented sideways to a hole on the end of the tang. (I for one love wheel pommels!) And this can still be done with a threaded tang too; a wing-nut will work, with the wings coming out through the washer holes, then gap-filled with JB Weld. I'll add up some pics soon!
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