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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on October 04, 2015, 09:11:10 am

Title: Wedding gift knives
Post by: osage outlaw 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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Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: bowandarrow473 on October 04, 2015, 09:19:50 am: Great knives, I. Sure they'll love them :)
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Pat B on October 04, 2015, 10:41:24 am: Nice work, Clint. How do you cut out the blanks. Looks like you annealed the file.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: bubby on October 04, 2015, 10:51:45 am: Those finished out great Clint I'm sure they will like'em
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: osage outlaw 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
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Trapper Rob on October 04, 2015, 02:29:08 pm: They look nice Clint.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Adam on October 04, 2015, 02:43:43 pm: Quote from: osage outlaw on October 04, 2015, 09:11:10 am
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.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: mullet 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.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: osage outlaw on October 04, 2015, 10:39:08 pm: Thanks guys.

Mullet, I'm planning on making both ;)
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: paulsemp 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
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: DC 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
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: stickbender on October 05, 2015, 01:12:30 am: Beautiful! Nice sheaths also!

Wayne
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Knoll on October 05, 2015, 01:28:39 am: Excellent looking knives, Clint! Always enjoy reading your varied posts.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Pappy on October 05, 2015, 04:42:42 am: O man what a gift, wished you was my uncle. ;) :)
Pappy
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: TRACY on October 05, 2015, 09:56:20 am: Priceless Clint !
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: PNewton on October 05, 2015, 10:22:29 am: That's a gift they will treasure forever. Good job Clint. Great looking knives.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Ranasp on October 05, 2015, 02:20:12 pm: Those are awesome, especially that they're taken out of the same chunk of metal.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: Danzn Bar on October 05, 2015, 08:43:47 pm: Really nice looking knives ....Clint ....We might just have to talk about a blank or two.....I've got some old files and a couple of rasp for ya.
DBar
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: osage outlaw on October 05, 2015, 10:23:22 pm: Thanks Bill. We can talk about blanks sometime.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: rps3 on October 08, 2015, 05:30:22 am: I bet his and her knives weren't on their registry. What a great gift.
Title: Re: Wedding gift knives
Post by: burchett.donald on October 11, 2015, 08:46:07 pm: Clint,
You are making some blades now bud...Nice set for sure, I know they will be treasured...The cases are really nice also and really add to the knives...
Don