1st whittling project

goodeyesniper said:
^^^ If I whittled that I'd be much more than "okay with it" looking very good. :thumbup:



Is that patina forced? I mean, it's so stinkin' black. I love it :p
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Haha, I know! Actually, I picked it up a few years back from a gun store/junk shop and it already had this super dark patina. I was there looking for a cheap .22 rifle to restore, but saw this and had to have it. All I've ever done was apply a couple drops of oil. :)
 
I have an Schrade Walden made Keen Kutter premium stockman that has a similar patina -- even utter black on all blades and springs. Not forced, not pitted or rusted, yet apparently very little use really. I don't know how it picked up such a patina - I only got it after it had already turned black.
 
My latest piece, testing a little Boker I just got from zerogee. That little guy works good, that is a chunk of black locust wood, and it carved surprisingly well considering how hard it is. :thumbup:

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yablanowitz said:
My latest piece, testing a little Boker I just got from zerogee. That little guy works good, that is a chunk of black locust wood, and it carved surprisingly well considering how hard it is. :thumbup:
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Glad it's working so well -- it's a great solid little knife. I'd never tried using one though, so I didn't know how well the carbon steel performs on these. :thumbup:
 
biglmbass said:
Dont' think so. Seems I recall seeing on these pages that Case can't get CV thick enough for the main blade.
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I've seen that said, though I doubt that's the precise truth - it's probably just a lot easier to say than the real reasons -- I'm sure Case can get whatever they want. More likely the Seahorse would be the only pattern in CV with a blade of that thickness, so it would be too expensive to get special runs made just for it (Case gets their steel in huge rolls). I figure they're using the same thickness SS steel on the Seahorse as some of their fixed blades use. There may also be heat treatment issues with CV that thick - they'd likely have to change their process a bit from the thin CV blades, and that'd throw a kink in their production flow.

The only possible carbon steel Seahorse patterns I've seen have been damascus or maybe a few special semi-custom collabs with Yellowhorse (the ones with "Native Steel" blades may be carbon steel, not sure though).

Edit: there is an ATS-34 version floating around out there.
 
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Never tried this before but this thread motivated me! There are a lot of nicks in the rails but next time I know to be a bit more patient. The Case swayback jack is up to the task!

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bigmo66 said:
Never tried this before but this thread motivated me! There are a lot of nicks in the rails but next time I know to be a bit more patient. The Case swayback jack is up to the task!

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That's a nice first attempt bigmo, been thinking about giving this a try myself. How did the swayback jack hold up, was it pretty comfortable in the hand?
 
I finally finished this thing up. The Schatt Railsplitter worked like a champ.

Not sure what it is, an angry constipated dwarf with a dip?

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the rat said:
That's a nice first attempt bigmo, been thinking about giving this a try myself. How did the swayback jack hold up, was it pretty comfortable in the hand?
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Thanks, I used the small pen blade for 95% of the project and it held up well. I did wear a glove after a while as I was really pressing hard on the back of the blade and wearing a groove in my thumb! As far as the feel of the knife it was great. I thought about rotating a couple knives out but never bothered.
 
bigmo: That's really quite nice!! Good job there. I never could carve people or faces or animals; or even draw them for that matter. I like it. - Ed
 
O.k. guys...you got to me. I just had to whittle something after reading all these posts. This is a little rabbit I made last weekend using a small wood carving knife. The Old Timer in the back came a few days later in a $5 30 knife bag from an antique store. It had a broken tip so it's now a wharncliff and my new whittler!!
 
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