Love that letter opener.it looks like would be very handy knife fullstop
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Love that letter opener.it looks like would be very handy knife fullstop
Handy but dont try to put your hand in your pocketQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Was origonally based on a boot knife I made but ground the tip wrong so reconfigured it to this shape and use it myself for a letter opener. Have made another one with resin ivory over buffalo horn in a resin ivory and black ivory table stand. The ivory one was for the husband, a gift from his wife, and now this one is for the wife as a gift from the husband.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
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A pair of Wapiti Hunters with walnut over CB buffalo horn bolsters on the 1075 blade, with one having spine jimping and both having chocolate snake knot and bead lanyards in closed top sheaths.
A pair of Old Western hunters also with walnut over CB buffalo horn bolster on 1075 blades in pouch sheaths.
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Originally Posted by Micky Duck
You can buy them at fruitfed and wrightsons, farmlands
For cutting tree tying string
Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
You can buy them at fruitfed and wrightsons, farmlands
For cutting tree tying string
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A camp knife with OD canvas micarta on the Nitro V stainless blade and a Him 'N' Her steak knife set with aged camel bone with G 10 liner on the Nitroo V stainless blades.
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Finally able to get these finished after a bit of a lay off due to crashing the Harley last month. A NitroV Letter opener with Giraffe bone bolster, Hornbeam handle and in a Swamp Kauri stand. Blade engraved both sides for a retirement gift for the customer's friend.
And a #2 Bushcraft knife with buffalo horn bolster, spalted Hackberry handle, snake knot lanyard in a closed top sheath.
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Like that stand,can see it on windowsill above the kitchen sink.
Mine sits on the sideboard where the mail goes so handy to grab. There was a set of dyed bone scales with a surface fissure but there is no depth to it and as it wasn't a set that would be attractice to customers, I decided to use it for myself. In all honesty I quite like the aged/ruggedness to the visual while the integrity is not effected.
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A Professional Hunter with Spalted Hackberry over curve backed buffalo horn on the 1075 blade in a initialled closed to sheath with attached honing steel.
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An interesting project finished and ready to go. I had a request for a short slasher with the specs to be a 300mm blade and 450mm handle so I drew up a plan that was aproved and went from there. 6mm 1075 for the blade and a hickory axe handle as the starting place with it being shortened and reshaped for the handle. Made the securing rings from the side out of a 50x25 box section. It was to have a blade cover so it could be carried in a hunting pack for those times when the pig hunter has to get in amongst the tight places the pigs can get to. Weight at 1.25 kg with the blade cover in place so shouldnt be a burden to carry.
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Seeing as I will be doing all the cooking for some time to come I decided that I needed a new chef set and having a re designed pattern I wanted to try decided this would be what I would use for the set. All our knives have been one at a time to test design etc so with different furntiure and patterns, there is nothing matching about them. I had been saving a very nice piece of tight grained broken fiddleback Tasmanian Blackwood so matched it with some bronze and black G10 for the NitroV SS blades. With the 8 inch chef, 6 inch petty chef and the 4 inch paring knife, this set will cover all the bases.
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A gift for a niece who is very special to us.
She mentioned that she prefers peeling her potatoes with a knife rather than using a commercial peeler so I made this little one for her and decided to add a chef set to go with it. An 8 inch chef knife, a 6 inch petty chef, a 4 inch paring knife and the little 3 inch peeler in NitroV with "spilled milk" acrylic attached with SS pins. Delivered them this past weekend and had a grand family catch up. About 2 hours away down the main road to the southern coast and home via the coastal scenic highway.
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I'm curious on your thoughts, I've always taken one knife into the bush but I'm considering taking two. One for cutting off heads and skinning and one for breaking down/boning/sticking. Inevitably at some point when butchering animals the knife begins to dull. Never used to bother me and I just pushed through but these days I appreciate a sharp knife that glides through its duties. I figure I either take a knife and a steel or two knives.
What do you do in the space of a breaking down/boning/sticking knife? Do you think it's worthwhile?
As an aside, I read a lot of history and can appreciate now why french and american settlers in the america's typically carried 3 knives on them at any one time during the 18th century.
I’d be disappointed in my knife if I couldn’t dress and break a deer down.
A good knife will do two or more deer if you do it right. Not cutting into bone, not cutting into hair etc.
I do carry a small sharpening device at times.
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