Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on October 16, 2016, 02:04:39 pm
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Last year my daughter killed her first deer. Since she did so good I wanted to make her a skinning knife for this hunting season. The steel is from an old USA made file. I annealed, shaped, hardened, and tempered the blade. The scales are dyed burlap micarta that I made a while back. I like how they look and how easy they were to shape. The only thing I don't like about them is there are very small air bubbles in it. They won't hurt anything but they bug me. Brass pins peened and sanded. I sanded the blade to 3000 grit and buffed it to a nice shine. While sharpening it I slipped with the stone and put some deep scratches in the blade. I had to start all over sanding that side of the blade. Cost me a couple of extra hours of work to fix it. The sheath is stingray skin.
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Nice looking knife. I like the shape! Cheers- Brendan
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That came out great Clint she will love it
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Is that the reflection of your phone/camera in the blade? LOL! And I am not laughing at you, brother. I am laughing how an amazing job of paying attention to details leads to a minor problem like an unwanted reflection! Some of us never have to worry about problems caused by doing such an excellent job!
Excellent job, for sure. Good design, extremely useful and effective by design. I hope she loves it as much as I do.
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Really nice Clint, hope your daughter gets to put it to work.
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Finished up nice Clint. That buff job is crazy.
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Wow, incredible polish job, and sweet knife Clint.
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She'll love that pops, nice work.
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Dang Clint, sometimes I wish I was your kid. That is beautiful work man just beautiful and I'm sure it performs as good as it looks
Bjrogg
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That's a gorgeous little skinner. Nice work!
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Is that the reflection of your phone/camera in the blade? LOL! And I am not laughing at you, brother. I am laughing how an amazing job of paying attention to details leads to a minor problem like an unwanted reflection! Some of us never have to worry about problems caused by doing such an excellent job!
Excellent job, for sure. Good design, extremely useful and effective by design. I hope she loves it as much as I do.
JW, that is the reflection of my phone. It's amazing how much of a mirror finish you can get from a rusty old file. It just takes a lot of sandpaper :P
Here is a picture of the scratches that I put in the blade while sharpening it. I was seeing red when I realized what happened. I started over with 320 grit and sanded that side of the blade up to 3000 grit again.
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Thanks for the comments guys. I gave her the knife tonight and she really liked it. She asked if she could use it to skin the next deer I kill. I told her she could use it to skin the next deer she kills.
I've got a couple more knives that I'm working on. I'll post them when I get them done. I'm enjoying doing some knife work. It's tedious and time consuming though. Next year I want to invest in a better knife grinding set up. I think that would speed things up a lot.
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Very nice looking knife.
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Beautiful knife Clint. Your daughter will love it and love you for making it for her. ;) 8)
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Excellent job on that knife. I like the profile a lot. She will be a skinning machine with that knife.
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That is a beauty, should give her lots of years of use. :)
Pappy
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Nice looking knife Clint.
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That's the perfect shape for a skinning knife in my opinion. Really nice!
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Looks great Clint.
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That is a beauty, should give her lots of years of use. :)
Pappy
My thoughts exactly......
DBar
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I told her that the knife was something that she could pass on to her children. Many, many, many years from now ;D
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I told her that the knife was something that she could pass on to her children. Many, many, many years from now ;D
Awww....Clint you'll have grandkids before you know it..:)
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And you'll LOVE it..................
DBar
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I told her that the knife was something that she could pass on to her children. Many, many, many years from now ;D
Awww....Clint you'll have grandkids before you know it..:)
I bought a used single shot 410 shotgun this summer Bill. I didn't really need it but it was cheap and I thought that it would be good to refinish it and give it to my first grandchild. Then I instantly felt old for thinking that. That was the first time having grand kids crossed my mind. I hope she finishes college first and doesn't take the accelerated approach to starting a family like we did.
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With your coaching over the years .......I don't think you will have any problems....
DBar
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Hey Clint, nice knives! I feel your pain with those scratches!!! At times like that, time to take a time out so the knife doesnt go sailing across the room!