Primitive Hunter

**Scottishsmith24** · 01-14-2014, 01:55 PM

I thought I would share something I just finished up last night as it was a complete first for me. I had a customer approach me about making a primitive style hunting knife. After tweaking his design some I went to work. We decided to use red mallee gum burl because of its gnarliness and beautiful grain and he also wanted a rawhide sheath which I had never done before, but after reading some great tutorials on the subject I felt somewhat confident that I could give it a shot. Let me just say that being new to working with raw hide it was a pain in the *** to cut unless it was wet so chalk that one up to experience. But overall I was very please with how it turned out and would love to hear everyones comments/ criticisms. The only thing I may have changed was to add a bead to the lanyard but as he will be using it to gut and clean animals I thought I should leave it without ornamentation.

Specs:

Over all Length (including hook): 11 1/2 inches
Blade Length: 5 inches
Handle Length: 5 1/2 inches
Thickest part of spine: 1/4 inch
Tip: 1/16
Blade Width: 1 3/4 inches
Handle material: Red Mallee Gum Burl with rawhide
There are four stainless steel pins one being hidden under the raw hide.
Also there are four small grooves in the spine to act as a thumb grip while skinning.

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Thank you for looking!

-Robert

**Grizz123** · 01-14-2014, 02:19 PM

I think that is a GREAT looking knife and sheath!!!!

**randallss7** · 01-14-2014, 03:56 PM

me too looks awesome!

**Rick** · 01-14-2014, 05:20 PM

Gee whiz. That's an incredible first try on the sheath. It's beautiful. I love the curled butt or head on the knife. That's pretty unique.

**SlowRide13** · 01-14-2014, 06:33 PM

Best-looking knife I ever saw. Period.

**bacpacker** · 01-14-2014, 08:53 PM

That is one awesome looking blade. Sheath to! Thanks for sharing.

**1stimestar** · 01-15-2014, 01:32 AM

Wow, that's lovely.

**Scottishsmith24** · 01-15-2014, 09:32 AM

Thank you everyone

**Buckshot** · 01-15-2014, 11:15 AM

Hello, My name is Buckshot, you did a good job on the knife and sheath, you may have tried this, what, I found is put the rawhide over an anvil, and soften with a hammer. That blade did you make it? I usually use old saw blades I've been carryin one for a group of years. I want to experiment with makin arrow heads from them. I probably talked to long, have a good un.