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Offline osage outlaw

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Wedding gift knives
« on: October 04, 2015, 09:11:10 am »
My niece got married yesterday.  Instead of buying them a gift I wanted to make them something.  I decided on a his and hers knife set out of a large file.  She deer hunts some so I made her a small skinner.  He doesn't hunt yet so I made him more of a utility style knife.  I used walnut for the scales and beaver tail for the sheaths. They haven't seen them yet.  They are opening gifts Monday evening.





















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Offline bowandarrow473

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2015, 09:19:50 am »
Great knives, I. Sure they'll love them :)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2015, 10:41:24 am »
Nice work, Clint.   How do you cut out the blanks. Looks like you annealed the file.
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Offline bubby

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2015, 10:51:45 am »
Those finished out great Clint I'm sure they will like'em
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2015, 12:16:43 pm »
Thanks guys.

Pat, I anneal the files and then cut the blanks out on a metal band saw at work
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2015, 02:29:08 pm »
They look nice Clint.

Offline Adam

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2015, 02:43:43 pm »
He doesn't hunt yet

Ha ha! His time is coming. I love it! That is really nice work and I'm sure they'll enjoy them.

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2015, 10:36:50 pm »
I can see it,,,, you'll turn into a knife maker instead of a Bow maker. Looking good, Clint. They ought to love them.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2015, 10:39:08 pm »
Thanks guys. 


Mullet, I'm planning on making both  ;)
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Offline paulsemp

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2015, 10:48:12 pm »
Real nice Clint!  Watch out it can become a addictive hobby. Only reason I got out of it I do enough metal work at work. Once you learn how to start manipulating metal it's pretty fascinating what you can do to it

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2015, 12:18:10 am »
One thing I always liked about metal was when you cut it to short you could weld a piece back on. Can't do that with wood. Well, Del thinks you can >:D

You know remove wood until it bends too much and then back up a step
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Offline stickbender

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2015, 01:12:30 am »

     Beautiful!  Nice sheaths also!

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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2015, 01:28:39 am »
Excellent looking knives, Clint! Always enjoy reading your varied posts.
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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2015, 04:42:42 am »
O man what a gift, wished you was my uncle. ;) :)
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Re: Wedding gift knives
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2015, 09:56:20 am »
Priceless Clint !
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