Everyone, Thank you for your responses, I had a few idea's and your answers really helped. I agree with starting with metal you know, I thou...

Again thank you Craig! I managed to get the pommel off with your advice. Now to figure out how I will do the hand guard, did a rough sketch o...

Craig, Thank you for the info! I will give that a try, it looks like it might be misaligned like you said so I will be careful.

Here's a rough idea of what I'm planning. Attached files

Well I managed to get the following done today: -guard off -managed to clean off all of the glue/wood/rust on the tang -did a little cleanup ...

Jason, Thanks for the reply, I know the hollow middle tang is very odd, not sure what they were thinking when they made this.

this set me back on my idea for the new handle, not sure how to go about tackling this now. I noticed that the original handle had the following...

I got to knocking the old rotten wood off of the knife and saw this... Attached files

Anthony and Jason, Thank you for the prayers and the warm welcomes. Michael

I already got a few nice idea's thanks to the ABS website and this forum: 1) It is a little hard to see but in the first picture the handle has ...