Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on June 02, 2018, 08:14:56 am
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My wife and I went for a walk down the road a couple months ago. As we were going along my wife spotted something in the ditch about 100 yards from our house. She looked at me and said she could see a knife blade. I said it couldn't be but sure enough that is what it was. It was a cheap kitchen knife with about an 8" blade that somebody had broken the handle on and pitched in the ditch. I'm not someone to let something go to waste so I brought it back home and fixed it up.
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Nice job. What did you use for the handle?
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Nice recovery on that old knife. Looks like a good size for the kitchen.
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Nice job Marc. Maybe it's a murder weapon someone ditched :)(bad pun)
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The handle is Buckthorn
It was one of those inexpensive knifes with nothing more than a short 2 1/2" tang going into a molded plastic handle, probably one of the reasons it broke. I ground the blade to add another 1/2" to the tang then inlaid that into the wood. The blade holds an edge fairly well and it is a good length for a kitchen knife.
Haven't heard of anyone being killed by a knife around here, not lately anyway, but you never know
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Love it , waste not want not, great saved . Pappy
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Nice job Marc. Maybe it's a murder weapon someone ditched :)(bad pun)
I was thinking the same thing,Yikes
Zuma
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Nice refurbish job, Marc! Looks too clean to have a sordid past >:D!
Hawkdancer
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Huh, can’t see it on mobile