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Started by bretto, January 12, 2009, 09:21:00 PM

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bretto

What is the average thickness of most knife scales. Slabs and hidden tang. Thanks

OconeeDan

for scales 1/4 if you use liners and 3/8 if you don't .  thicker is better as you have more control of the final shape/thickness.

beaver#1

im with dan on this one, always better to have to take more off than try to figure out how to make it bigger.
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bretto

Thanks Guy's, was wanting to put a knife together as a gift. I've got a great looking piece of Cocabola (spelling?) that is 1" thick and I new if I re-sawed it to 1/2" it would be pretty beefy.

bretto

Ray Hammond

I find most knives I build end up much thinner..but I like having 1/4 to 3/16 to begin with so that I can have room for errors not available if stuff is really thin to begin with.

I also have begun removing material from the back side of scales if it has a particularly pretty grain on the visible surface so I don't inadvertantly remove all the pretty and end up with plain jane scales.
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bretto

That makes a lot of sense Ray. Thank You

uhdet

1/2" scales will be okay if you plan on doing some shaping and contouring of the handle. I use 1/2" scales when I shape a coke bottle shape and real agressive finger groves.

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