How To Make Knife Handle Liners
It s a low density metal that provides for a nice hefty feel to the knife without weighing the knife down.
How to make knife handle liners. Pier 9 starter project make your own knife handle as some of you have seen shop staff here at pier 9 s workshop have dived deep into the exciting art of making knives particularly beautiful knife handles. Aluminum usually anodized for color hardness and protection is a very durable material for knife handles. A liner lock works because a spring in the side of the handle usually titanium is in the path of the blade and keeps the blade open until the spring is pushed over to the side. If one is right handed when the knife is cutting edge up the liner lock would be built into the left side and will spring towards the right.
You can also use liners to make the handle a bit thicker if the scale material your e using is a bit too thin. This video is how i went about making a bushcraft knife using basic woodworking tools this is the first kn. Making a bushcraft woodlore jacklore clone knife. This video is about how to attach your liners to scales.
The most common type of aluminum used today is the t6 6061 alloy which has tremendous tensile strength.