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Main Boards => Hunting Knives and Crafters => Topic started by: Scott Roush on January 21, 2010, 10:23:00 PM
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I was up in the UP of Michigan last week and a gill net fisherman gave me these old Dexter high carbon knives:
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj61/The_Roushs/DSC01156.jpg)
They looked like potential for a good primitive buckskinner knife so I cleaned one of them up and ground a guthook into the spine... a little file work (still working on that) lower down, and some muriatic acid etching. I sliced some wood out of the handles and laid down some birch bark, another brass pin, reshaped the handle, stained with leather dye, scorched lightly with a torch and then a danish oil and paste wax finish. The edge is back in action and ready to skin a buck. I threw the sheath together and am still working on that as well.
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj61/The_Roushs/_SAR0056.jpg)
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj61/The_Roushs/_SAR0058.jpg)
Anyway..... something to keep me going while waiting to get my forge together (I gave up on the kiln).
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Scott, I like the way that turned out! Nice work, looks like those blades have many more years service in them!
Steve
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Potomac Forge
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IN GOD WE TRUST
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Thanks Steve... How's your latest project coming out?
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Those are beaver skinning knives. You can still buy those through trapping suppliers. Should hold a good edge. Mark
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Yeah... and the gill netters up here use them for cleaning the 'mud line' from lake trout and whitefish. They take a lot of abuse.