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Main Boards => Hunting Knives and Crafters => Topic started by: ozy clint on May 29, 2010, 03:47:00 AM
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last sunday i started knapping a blade from a piece of mahogany obsidian and i finished it through the week. i also played around with a piece of water buffulo horn to use for a handle. today i hafted the blade to the handle with pine pitch and sinew and made a little sheath from kangaroo hide that i tanned myself with wattle bark. it is stitched with sinew.
it's primitive throughout!
a nice little project comes to an end.......it's now waiting to skin something.
(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/ozyclint/IMG_1475.jpg)
(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/ozyclint/IMG_1480.jpg)
(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/ozyclint/IMG_1477.jpg)
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Great looking project. Hope you get to skinning soon!
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I like it! Very cool project!
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Nice. Did you heat up that horn and mold it to fit the knife blade or something? Cannot tell for sure but it looks like it bends in on the sides a little to grip the blade.
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That's pretty cool!
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Thats right nice little skinner!!!!!!!!
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neutron- no the handle is solid horn. i just sanded it to shape to fit the blade. there was actually another couple of inches of solid horn that i cut of before the horn started getting hollow.
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Clint, very cool project! I like it all!
Steve
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Potomac Forge
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ABS Apprentice
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That little burger is Cool!!!
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That is sweet.. I use to do a lot of digging. where I live there is lots of good flint. I have a sweet corner tang that is made of root beer flint and you can almost see threw it.. I might have to pick you up some flint and send to you if you like.? privet message me you address..