Mistakes happen, this isn’t even my worst one of the day.
I went to make a handle for one of the little marking knives I made the other day. I turned the handle, drilled a hole for the tang, and fitted a piece of copper tubing for a ferrule. After a little sanding and a couple of coats of paste wax, I went to epoxy the blade in the handle.
As I was tapping the handle down on the tang, I didn’t realize I had bottomed-out in the handle. One more whack, and you can see what happened.
Joshua, Judges, Dang It. (My oldest son’s first attempt at an expletive when he was 3 years old, he banged his head climbing into the car)
Luckily, I turned two handle blanks. You can see tenons for the copper ferrules on each end.
I drilled the hole for the tang a little deeper the second time. Sharpened the blade after it was installed, and I was good to go.
P.S. Don’t fret about my potentially potty-mouthed son. Five and a half years later he gasped in shock when he saw me type the title of this post…
