Barn Find Kris Restoration

[Klop]

Hi Rob, looks great! one more question about the bacabaca, when it is in it's place on the blade, how do you seal it? Do I see a rivet, or is it soldered shut?

thanks,
Eric.

[Klop]

oh, and about tight fitting; i've once seen a docmentary about the production of high end (english) double barreled hunting guns, when fitting parts the gunsmith held them over a small flame to blacken with soot. Then fit the parts together to see where the contact points are, file a tiny bit & repeat endlessly.

[RobT]

Klop,

I think what you are taking for a rivet is actually a 1/8" diameter brass plug that I set into the baca baca (on both sides) as a decoration. I think that traditionally the baca baca ends are braised together but, being unwilling to use so much heat near the blade, I use epoxy.
I am aware of using soot (or lipstick or dykem blue) for fitting but what I meant in this case is how do you get a ganja to blade tight fit without first having a tang to ganja tight fit (and vise versa).

Sincerely,
RobT

[Klop]

Hello Rob,

clear, thanks for the explanation!

kind regards,
Eric.