Taiwanese rehab

[Twobit]

Thanks for guessing, Ian! I'll let you know after some others have a chance to put theirs in, or rather, take a "stab" at it.

[Twobit]

Meanwhile, I've gone about contouring the blades more to my liking.

[Twobit]

Sacrificing a pair of waxwood nunchucks for scales. Nice, blonde colored wood with visible grain. Lightweight but very dense grain. When I cut the sticks off of the swivel chain assembly the cut was smooth as plastic.

[jerryk25]

I like the modified blade profiles.

[Twobit]

Thanks, Jerry!

[gravknife]

They look really good mate .
The wood should look good aswell ,give it some heft.
Hope it all turns out well for you ,more satisfaction in making than buying .

[Twobit]

Thanks, Ian!. The wood is pretty light. For heft, I'm looking to solid, 1/8" thick stainless bolsters. Trying to figure out how to do some kind of guard that doesn't look generic. Here's a pic of the donor material. It's got a polyurethane coating that won't be on the finished scales. I might stain them if I'm not happy with the natural color.

[Twobit]

Incidentally, Ian, since there's been ample time for others to weigh in on the lever question, I'll go ahead and reveal that the one on the left in the photo is the original factory lever.

[Twobit]

Probably won't be posting any updates for a bit. I'm doing this work at my job and super busy with my actual tasks at present. Supply issues might bring us to a halt in the next few weeks and if so I'll be able to spend hours at a time on this little adventure but for now if I do anything it likely won't merit an update.

[Twobit]

Now I have a bit of a quandary. My dog has dragged the hindquarters of a deer into the yard. Pelvis and leg bones. I've already destroyed a perfectly good pair of nunchucks for my handles but I'd sure like me some bone ones. Maybe one knife in each? What do you all think? I really wanted my Hubertus in the white bone but the only one he had available was an NRA special edition that had a shortened lever for actually using the shell pullers. Mike said it's not really operable with one hand that way so I went with the ram's horn.

[whippersnapper]

I have no idea what it would take to preserve or stabilise fresh bone.

[Twobit]

That's a valid concern, Terry. I'm gonna do what everyone does these days to become an instant expert on anything: I'll Google it!

[Twobit]

Ok based on what I found out I don't really want to put that much effort into handles for these experimental builds. They're going to take long enough already. Waxwood it is then. Maybe after mother nature does the job over the next several months I might use it for something else.

[Twobit]

Update: first attempt at a bolster/ guard. Needs some finishing but I'm not too displeased with the look .

[Bill DeShivs]

This is the way a shell-puller should look.
Yours has no way to grab the shell.