
So, you gather up all the goodies to start..... In this starting off pic below you can see that the bone squares have their basic holes cut already. I carefully marked them and drilled a single hole in the center of the one for the top, and a wide slot for the one that will ride down the tang to mate with the guard.
Note also that the guard and pommel are "rough." They will need to be shaped and polished. The slot in the guard has to be filed to fit the tang.
Starting out, you lay out the pieces and make orientation marks on each after deciding what faces which direction and which piece works best where....
After a couple days of work, mainly drilling the hole thru the center of the stag handle, and then filing and filing to make it fit the tang, I was ready to glue up. This included filling the gap around the tang with epoxy using a popsicle stick after sliding the stag on. Otherwise it would rattle. It was left to cure for 24 hours. Looking at that hot mess you wouldn't think it would amount to much would you? I could see the shape I wanted in it, so I had no worries.

After several sessions of shaping, it's looking pretty good. But I know there is more to do. I need to blend the bone at the guard and pommel and there is a lot of polishing still to be done.