Ok, I clamped to old scales to the new material so I could mark the holes that need to be drilled. This particular one has 4 different hols sizes and a countersunk bit will be used as well.



All scribed and all holes drilled, no countersinking yet. I take a magic marker run it along my scribe marks so I can see them better on the lighter material.



Time to mock it up now.



I cleaned and organized all of the pieces before building it. I put an X across the holes that will NOT be used so as to not confuse me.





Hey this things is starting to look like a knife





I took the blade back off and wedged in some folded up paper so the end of the handles wouldnt flex during final sanding. You can also see all of the shotty chattering marks from when the knife was originally cut out of the spring steel blanks. I wanted to really capture this now, but dont worry I will clean that up too when finishing my final forming.