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Old 01-24-2008, 10:09 AM
Georgiaboy Georgiaboy is offline
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I'm getting ready to work on a folding fishing knife. It's gonna have a 4" fillet blade, a 3-1/2" regualar drop point blade, and a tie fast do-hickey that I saw on Cabela's website. For the handle material, I want to do cork scales. I'm going to test this out first, but I'm hoping that the cork will keep the metal afloat, so if a fisherman drops it, it will still float. It's going to be a little more of challenge, trying to put everything together. Do any of ya'll have any suggestions? I'm putting this together for my uncle cause he's an avid fisherman.
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Old 01-24-2008, 11:08 AM
Alan Folts Alan Folts is offline
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What I would suggest is a very thin steel and quite thick and contoured handles....

Cork will not float all that much weight.... You may even consider hidden tang to keep the weight down even more....


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Old 01-24-2008, 03:20 PM
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I saw one with Neoprene handles, I don't know where they got it. But, you can use a handle that floats a little bit and make it with a thong hole and a nice floating thong. You can then thread a floating material on the thong so it won't sink. Come to think of it, I think I saw neoprene handle material in K&G. That's the same stuff some wetsuits are made of. Neoprene by itself won't keep a knife floating.


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