Also, when you drill wood, it compresses around the drill bit as the bit cuts. Immediately after you drill it, your pins may fit. Later when you try to fit the pins, the wood has relaxed a bit and they won’t fit.
Run your drill through it a second time and your pins just might fit!
Finished............. I hope my friend would like it Convex edge ......I hate to sharpen knives after I give them .This way when knife dull they can sharpen them by themselves
Taxus baccata or yew .....That is a nice looking handle. What wood is it?
Well I like this one more ............. Once I forget to temper 52100 blade....snap at half when I was hand sanding ........Finally got back to making knives after several months hiatus due to a move for work. Started it with attempting to heat treat a chef knife I had in progress and everything went smoothly until attempting to remove some warp post heat treat when I snapped it! Dang. Looks like it might turn into a nakiri with a western chef knife style handle haha
Thanks DanF. It's my second Bowie build and my first sheath of this type.That is very nice bike4fun, loving the sheath also!