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Ozceltic63
16th August 2010, 11:16 AM
G'day folks.

Do any of you fine folks have instructions for assembling cutlery into
wooden handles?
Such as cheese knifes etc. Note not tube type kits.
These have a flat tang type arrangement.

Thanks

Liam

RETIRED
16th August 2010, 12:03 PM
We used to drill the hole 1/32" (one drill size down) smaller than the tang is wide.

Put a little bit of Araldite in the hole and the holding the blade in a PADDED vice, knock the handle on.

That was after shaping the handle for the ferrule.

Ozceltic63
16th August 2010, 12:29 PM
Yeah that was something like I thought.

SWMBO bought herself a bunch of stuff at the Trend
opening the other day, including some letter openers etc.
that didn't have tubes.

I thought they would go together something like files
but wasn't sure if there was a better way.

Liam

Woodwould
16th August 2010, 01:04 PM
Cutlers traditionally used hot pitch to embed blades into handles, but Araldite probably is more convenient.

RETIRED
16th August 2010, 01:16 PM
Cutlers traditionally used hot pitch to embed blades into handles, but Araldite probably is more convenient.The council have something to say about digging up their roads.:wink:

Could be handy to tar and feather someone though.:D

Woodwould
16th August 2010, 01:22 PM
The council have something to say about digging up their roads.:wink:
You would require a decent sieve to remove the aggregate once it's melted!

jimbur
16th August 2010, 02:13 PM
The council have something to say about digging up their roads.:wink:

You mean to someone else digging up their road.:D

Ozceltic63
16th August 2010, 02:15 PM
Reminds me. Back when I where a lad..
We used to acquire tar from building sites to water proof the
home made canoes, we made from acquired gal iron roofing.
Mum had so much fun trying to get that out of our clothes.
:)

Manuka Jock
16th August 2010, 03:00 PM
Reminds me. Back when I where a lad..
We used to acquire tar from building sites to water proof the
home made canoes, we made from acquired gal iron roofing.
Mum had so much fun trying to get that out of our clothes.
:)
There always seemed to be one hole that got missed eh :doh:

Ozceltic63
16th August 2010, 03:14 PM
tis true enough. :D

RETIRED
16th August 2010, 05:22 PM
Reminds me. Back when I where a lad..
We used to acquire tar from building sites to water proof the
home made canoes, we made from acquired gal iron roofing.
Mum had so much fun trying to get that out of our clothes.
:)I wasn't going to tell anyone but 52 years ago when I was on holidays (staying with friends) at Port Campbell with the family and friends they were sealing the last stages of the Great Ocean road into Port Campbell.

For the young folk on the Forum, tar used to come in barrels and was then heated and put on the road.

There were numerous barrels lying about that had the remnants left after they had been used and we kids, about 5 of us, decided that rolling each other around in these would be good fun.

The result was clothes and exposed skin being pitch black. We only wore shorts then so were pretty well covered in tar residue.

We got home and the resulting berating from all the mothers was astounding. No sense of humour women.

Our respective fathers were strangely quiet which was usually a foreboding sign that things were going to get real bad pretty soon. It was.

"Right, you lot." said my old man. "Strip off, give your mothers your clothes and come here."

What awaited was not good. An old bath tub half filled with a mixture of kerosene and petrol.

"Wash yourselves in that and then come over here to get hosed down."

I am here to tell you that kero gets into every orifice and causes great discomfort.

We never ever played with tar again.

Go forward 30 years and the mention of tar came up at a family gathering.

The old man said that he, his mates and wives had seen us mucking about with the barrels and guessed the likely outcome and plotted the whole thing.

How did he know? He had done the same thing when he was a lad. Same result from his father.:D

mkypenturner
16th August 2010, 05:50 PM
liam
the easist way i have found is a mandrel that is from timbercon in wa as well as a mandrel for the threaded wine stoppers its a morse 2 fit search mandrel on their site

Manuka Jock
16th August 2010, 06:02 PM
G'day folks.

Do any of you fine folks have instructions for assembling cutlery into
wooden handles?
Such as cheese knifes etc. Note not tube type kits.
These have a flat tang type arrangement.

Thanks

Liam

Liam , do you have a pic of them ?

Christos
16th August 2010, 09:10 PM
How did he know? He had done the same thing when he was a lad. Same result from his father.:D


And you kids think that you know it all. Well it's been done before. :brava

Ozceltic63
17th August 2010, 09:52 AM
g'day this is what they look like.
Liam

artme
17th August 2010, 04:52 PM
#1 Drill hole of required size for tang.

# 2 Super glue collar thingy to tang.

#3 Split a bamboo kebab skewer, caut off a couple of pieces to fit the remainder of the length of the tang.

#4 superglue said bits to tang.

#5 Check fit in hole and pare bamboo down as needed.

#6 Use slow setting super glue to glue blade in handle.

Never had one come adrift yet.

Ozceltic63
18th August 2010, 10:42 AM
Thanks guys i will let you know ehat we end up doing