For those folks that don't hang around the Hunting Knives and Crafters forum, allow me to introduce Clarence Smitherman (aka skullworks) to you. I've admired his work for quite sometime. When he posted pics of a rework job on an old Buck 110 folder, I was so impressed that I had to see if he could do some work on my old Case XX P172 10 dot Buffalo folder. As you can see below, the factory scales were cracked, bolsters were stained and ugly and the blade needed some TLC.
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So, I sent him the above pics and he agreed to work on the knife. We talked about the kind of new scales and I mentioned that I had seen factory stag on some of the Case P172's and thought that would look nice. Clarence said he had some stag laying around and would see if it might work. Well, I received the knife back this afternoon and I thought I'd share a few pics of Clarence's work. Very little work was done on the blade to preserve the original patina of the 30 year old carbon blade.
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If you haven't done it before, check out his and the other crafter's work. Thanks again "skully"!!
Danny
Excellent knife and Jack Howard approved to.
That's very cool!!
Thanks for sharing with us.
God bless,Mudd
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Clarence is top nock.
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Much better and another 30 something years of Memories to be made with it...Thanks for sharing those pics with us...
Beautiful! Clarence does excellent work. I've got a pair of custom knives to match a bow he did for me and I love 'em. This site is loaded with so much talent and skill of all kinds that it humbles me.
Nice re-work job.
Whew Sonny Jim!! Good for you Ric. Beautiful work Clarence.
Ric,
Turned out great, should last at least another 30 yrs or more now !!. Clarence is a good one.
Froggy
Sweet!....Phil
great job!!
Very nice work..!
I had Clarence set me up with a knife this year. Good guy great knife.
thats gorgeous. wish i diddnt lose my old buck 110 that my old man gave me when i turned 7...
never give a 7 year old an old knife with memories...
-hov
There are some "true" artist's on the knife forum here.
Nice job........really dressed the old girl up!!
Very Nice..........
That is some top notch reworking.
Real nice.
he does awesome work fer sure! well done you two :clapper: :clapper:
Any hunter would be proud to have that knife in their pack! :thumbsup:
Nice!
I have a Damascus mini neck knife Clarence made for me. He is an artist. He did a great job on my knife as well as yours. Thanks for your post.
his knives are works of art. i've gone to his site frequently to check on what he has available, and saved some pics. someday-----.
WOW....turned an average knife into a work of art.
Thanks for all the compliments! I have some customer requested stuff to finish and then hopefully I'll get to knocking some out again. I just fancy them up most of the time. There are some much better makers than me! All around talent all over this site.
That realy looks good.
Very Nice !
Nice work.
I can't believe that's the same knife. Gotta respect great craftsmanship.