Making a New Knife Handle

A few months ago my knife melted. Well, the handle did at least. 

I managed to get the blade out of the plasticy mess, but it’s hard to use a knife without a handle. 

I figured I’d make a new one, but it looked hard- it was the flip-in blade type of knife, so there wasn’t much 

of the blade to attach a new handle to. There was a hole in the end of the blade, which could be used to 

attach a new handle, but it had a bolt in it. So I got a new knife.

I recently found that lonely blade, and I realized I could just cut off the bolt thing (I’m not sure why I didn’t 

do this before). So I did, and then I made a new handle for it.

Steps to Making a Knife Handle:

1. Get all the extra stuff off the blade (ie. the bolt that used to hold it to the original handle
2. Find to thin pieces of wood to use for the main structure of the handle
3. Drill a hole in the end for the bolt holding in the blade
4. Attach the long metal piece on the back to also hold the blade
5. Measure and then cut the wood to roughly the right shape and size
6. Screw all the bits and pieces together
7. Add more thin wood in the middle and then glue
8. Sand

Here are some pictures of the process: (I didn’t get pictures of the first steps)