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Main Boards => Hunting Knives and Crafters => Topic started by: tomsm44 on December 04, 2013, 10:25:00 PM
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This knife started out as about a 6" fighter last spring. After getting the profile ground I decided it was too thin for that size knife and set it aside. About September or so I saw it and decided to get some use out of it. I was wanting to do a bird and trout knife so that's what I went with. Ground it down and it got set aside again while I worked on some other projects. Then, a few weeks back, I saw Lin's bird and boot knife and thought the idea made for an awesome knife. So I stole the idea, combined it with my small amount of experience and some shoddy craftsmanship and my bird and trout became what I guess would be kind of a compact fighter. A very poor representation of the concept when compared to Lin's but a lot of fun to build nonetheless.
4 5/8" blade 9 1/8" OAL
1084 stone washed blade
SS guard/pin
Cocobolo handle
(http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg614/tomsm44/image-33.jpg) (http://s1246.photobucket.com/user/tomsm44/media/image-33.jpg.html)
(http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg614/tomsm44/image-32.jpg) (http://s1246.photobucket.com/user/tomsm44/media/image-32.jpg.html)
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Looks dang nice to me!
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That'll do :thumbsup:
Darcy
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Would that by any chance be a 16ga M-12 behind it?
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Afraid not but close. That's my grandfather's old 20 gauge model 12 complete with Poly-Choke. I thought an old bird gun would be a fitting prop for photographing this knife. My dad gave it to me back in September and gave my grandfather's 28 gauge Rem 11-48 to my brother. It has a Cutts compensator instead of the Poly-Choke.