Dean, You are talking about the front spacer, right? If so, take a look back at post #12 and you will see the spacer off the blade and then on the blade. I did nothing to it from one picture to the next. I think you are forgetting the step that is filed in the back of the ricasso, top and bottom.

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Dean, You are talking about the front spacer, right? If so, take a look back at post #12 and you will see the spacer off the blade and then on the blade. I did nothing to it from one picture to the next. I think you are forgetting the step that is filed in the back of the ricasso, top and bottom.

Yep, step forgotten. I have only made a few hidden tang knives as I came from the stock removal process of knife making. So happy I asked the question before I tried to file that spacer down to the blade!

Do you silver weld any of the spacers?

Thank you so much for answering Lin.

I sometimes do silver solder but I did not on this one. It is fit tight and "JB welded". The fit is mechanical so the epoxy is just to hold it while fitting the parts behind it.

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I sometimes do silver solder but I did not on this one. It is fit tight and "JB welded". The fit is mechanical so the epoxy is just to hold it while fitting the parts behind it.

Thank you Lin, learn something every day on this forum. JB weld to hold things together, love it.