Jack Schmidling wrote:
"Ted Frater"


Jack, your last sentence, your going to make some new handles.
Thinking ahead, that will be the easy bit for you as I guess you might
be casting them out of silver. Very nice too.
. However have you thought about the real problem? that is of joining
the handles to the blades?


As I mentioned in a previous message, it appears that the handles and
knife/fork are made from a single piece of steel and silver plated. The
handle is solid, as far as I can tell.

What I was thinking of was to hold the knife end in a 4 jaw chuck and simply
turn down the handle to a 1/4 round tang and insert this into a drilled hole
in the new handle.


If it were me and I wanted to know how they were made as well as by
whom, you say that the co could be just 30 miles away. how about calling
them to check?


They have been out of business for decades as far as I can know.

js


If as you say the handle is solid then Id do the same as you. turn it
down in a lathe ensuring the tang was central to the knife blade..
Id also cut off as much of the handle needed to leave say a 2 in tang.
Id also put a center into the handle end and support that in a running
center as the knife blade is likely to be not strong wenough to take the
cutting load.