You are coming right along as well. Very nice.
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You are coming right along as well. Very nice.
i'm putting a local ad out for antler, and for certain steels in exchange for hand made knives.
i hope it pans out. i still have several knives to make from this mule deer rack. it was a deer taken by either my great uncle or my great grandfather, and i plan to make knives for several family members from it. i need to make sure i keep enough for that purpose.
Why don't you touch base with processing plants that handle deer? I'm sure the big ones are saved for racks but the small stuff might be tossed since they see so much of it. They might just give you broken or smaller antlers. If they do other animals you might be able to get some horn, too.
you're right, as usual. that's a fine idea.
I'll look around in my "stash", might have some antlers big enough to make something out of.
Gonna be a couple of days or so, gonna be busy.
I'll get back to you.
I pick up a bunch as sheds and also always keep my eyes pealed at yard sales and such.
Canid - I'm going to take the next knife I make back to the guy with the huge sawmill blades to try and work a trade. If I'm successful, I'll send you some steel if you're interested.
i'm definitely interested. i'm still out of work and have been for far too long, so i haven't been able to buy much or mail anything for some time.
I just did a check on Craig's List for Indy and there were five antler offerings. None were free but a couple were pretty cheap. Might be worth a shot in your area.
no such luck. indiana and central california are quite different places, culturally speaking. i don't think people around here truly value deer the way i do.
That may make the 2009 understatement of the year for LIFE magazine. Stacking Arnold beside Mitch would be like comparing Mutt and Jeff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Canid
Arnold: "I'll be back"
Mitch: "Okay. Come armed and have money. We don't take credit."
Great job Candid. You seem to have been very busy.
give california a break; most of these people thought they where actually voting for the terminator.
today i recieved two nice pieces of sawblade steel from crash.
i've drawn out profiles for 4 blades from them. i would have liked to make 2 of them smaller because i was hoping to have a strip leftover on one the the pieces wide enough for a small drawknife blade, but as it stands, there is material for one medium sized drop point hunting knife blade, and 3 similar blades of equal size, but smaller than the first. with this layout, there is very little waste. i'll put up some pics when i cut them out.
update; making my second hard sheath.
http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_0133.jpg
i actually scavenged the walnut from the last bow i broke. i'm going to add some antler, and make a leather frog for it before all is said and done.
http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_0134.jpg
the antler i cut out for the sheath did not turn out great, but i'll see if i can fix it.
It's looking great so far.
Canid, you really do fine work. I like those. A couple of things I did when I put together the wooden sheath for my machete and my Ghurka was to seal the inside with Thompson's Water Seal. I was afraid moisture or water would get inside and either impact the sheath or cause rust or both. I also placed a small hole in the bottom of the sheaths so water could drain if it gets inside. Granted, they are much larger than the sheaths you are making but I thought it might be something to think about since I assume you intend these as users.
this is a very rough draft outline for blanks from the saw blade steel crash sent me:
http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_0148.jpg
i'll refine them pretty soon, but i've yet to even cut the steel. i wish to heck i'd bought that 19tpi bi-metal blade for my bandsaw when i had the chance.
instead of doing the three smaller knives identical, i figured the shape of that second piece lent itself to a santoku type blade pretty well. we'll see if i stick with it.
refined design and cut out templates:
http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_0150.jpg
these have not been traced onto the stock. when i can cut them out i'll bench grind them to profile, grind the rough bevels and file them mostly to spec. before final heat treatment.