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    Nilgai horn knife

    A while back I had a guy ask me if I could use a set of his nilgai horns for a knife handle. I told him to send them to me and we will see what we can come up with. Here’s a work in progress.


    Here the horns modeled by one of my minions.

    I figured the flat spot on each horn would make a good pair of scales for either a mortise fit stick tang or a regular full tang.

    Customer went with the full tang option, so I designed the knife to fit the material. ATS 34 steel is what I had in the right dimensions.


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    Here are the parts after heat treat.



    The horns are hollow, so I filled the backs with black epoxy.


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      #3
      After that it was just regular style knife scale installation. I used peened pins for a little extra mechanical grip.



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        #4
        That is clean!

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          #5
          That’s really nice!

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            #6

            Tapered tang of course


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              #7
              That turned out really nice!! Great job!

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                #8
                That’s cool.

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                  #9
                  Nice!


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                    #10
                    Really nice

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                      #11
                      Very nice

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                        #12
                        Beautiful work!

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                          #13
                          Looks great

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                            #14
                            Jason you always amaze me Sir



                            Ron

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                              #15
                              That’s cool! Nice work sir!

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