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There's a number of decent You Tube videos on tapering a tang. I can't remember which one I liked the best or I'd attach a link.

Thanks John

Thanks Ted. It feels really nice in the hand.

Thank you

Thanks. I was still on my first on my first cup of coffee this morning when I responded and I took your reply the wrong way. Sorry. we're good? I'm moving toward doing my handles in the style of the fix like on this one. At least on the hunting knives.

Thanks Rick.

Oh, so am I. Those pictures do not do the beauty of the wood justice.

Thank you, Steve.

Yep. Just was sure about it and didn't have one.

That's why my original post on the nice stated that "I was warned this could happen". I haven't had any complaints from any of my customers and if I did, I'd make it right.

Last week I post these pictures of a knife I was working on when a piece of the handle broke near the ricasso. I wasn't sure how to go about fixing it since the handles had been glued on so I set the knife aside to think about it. I ended up taking it to my friend and mentor, Gene Baskett. He...

So sorry to hear about this. I watched many of his You Tube videos as well and followed him on Instagram too. May he rest in peace.

I can't wait to see it! And that desert ironwood is beautiful.

I found that a lot of that comes from what you already mentioned, everything not being dead nuts flat. You may have already checked, but one of the other things is to make sure the spacing at the front of the knife handles when closed is the exact same as the spacing in the back. A little side...

Dude for your second frame lock that's pretty darn good. I still haven't tried to make a frame lock, so my flippers are all liner locks. For me, getting the action right on the flippers is extremely difficult. First off, Lord knows that I'm definitely no expert on knives let alone flippers...

Nice! Making a slip joint is on my list of stuff I'd like to learn to build. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, that list keeps getting longer and longer.

Justin, I don't know what program you have, but Mike Stewart, EKIM Knives, has a tutorial on using DraftSight that is over an hour long. It will give you much of the basics for using it. That said, I also agree with Ted that having a sketch of what you want to accomplish in CAD is so beneficial...

Thanks all for the replies and suggestions. I had to set it aside for awhile and chill by working on something else. I wanted to throw the knife across the room but have gotten much better at not doing such things. That being said, I'll definitely try the suggestions mentioned to try and salvage it.

So this knife I've been working on for what feels like forever. I finally get to the point where I get the handles on and glued up and on the path to finishing it. Several of the folks on the form warned me about leaving the wood thin near the ricassso/finger coil area. I was asked if I ever had...

Very nice Kevin!