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Offline osage outlaw

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Skinning knife for my daughter
« on: October 16, 2016, 02:04:39 pm »
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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Offline penderbender

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2016, 02:09:32 pm »
Nice looking knife. I like the shape! Cheers- Brendan
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Offline bubby

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2016, 02:50:11 pm »
That came out great Clint she will love it
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2016, 03:24:35 pm »
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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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2016, 03:25:59 pm »
Really nice Clint, hope your daughter gets to put it to work.
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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2016, 05:09:02 pm »
Finished up nice Clint. That buff job is crazy.
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2016, 05:31:21 pm »
Wow, incredible polish job, and sweet knife Clint.
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2016, 07:36:49 pm »
She'll love that pops, nice work.
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2016, 08:34:56 pm »
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
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Offline StumblyRhino

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2016, 08:50:16 pm »
That's a gorgeous little skinner.  Nice work!
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2016, 08:53:07 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on October 16, 2016, 03:24:35 pm
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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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2016, 08:59:19 pm »
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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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2016, 09:21:41 pm »
Very nice looking knife.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2016, 10:58:22 pm »
Beautiful knife Clint. Your daughter will love it and love you for making it for her.  ;)   8)
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Re: Skinning knife for my daughter
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2016, 12:07:42 am »
Excellent job on that knife. I like the profile a lot. She will be a skinning machine with that knife.
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