We dug this old knife out of the bottom of a closet. After seeing it I decided that it needed to be restored. The first stage as when making anything is design. As it is a jungle style knife and the sheath appears to look like a stylized fish body I decided the handle should look like a head.
I started with the cross guard. I cut it out of a scrap piece. I then drilled a hole for the tang and elongated it with a file. I then polished it and applied gun black.
the handle is a piece of oak I polished after I carved gills and eyes and then accented with a wood burner.
After all that was done I mixed some epoxy and glued the whole thing together.
The finished product.
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