A couple more Old Hickory knives

3fifty7

3fifty7

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I just received 2 Old Hickory knives and a couple others from my Grandmother, who turned 90 earlier this month, who now has help to come in prepare meals and clean. She has “no use for them anymore” gave them to me and told me to “do something with them”.
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I’m really liking the 8” chefs knife it’s got a great feel in hand.
The top knife in looks like some sort of skinner style or perhaps a butchers knife that got turned into what it is today.

Anyway when I get around to it I’m gonna give them the same treatment I did in this thread:

My turn to Rehandle some Old Hickory knives DONE !

I’ve been sitting on this project for a couple years and now it’s time. Here is my starting point. I want to clean up the steel, clean the grinds, and rehandle with some curly maple. The large chefs knife is a stubb tang that really needs a little more handle weight. I’m thinking about welding...
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I’m not so sure with the skinner, I may have to photoshop a few reprofile lines to see if anything jumps out at me.
 
Their skinner knives have a pronounced "stiffy" profile. I really couldn't use one without laughing.
 
A month and something later update:1C5E4DC6-8756-416B-8F03-D8FA77A713FA.jpeg
Both had SIGNIFICANT pitting under the scales. I gave them an overnight vinegar soak then off to the grinder to begin clean up.
The butchers knife was a stubb tang that I added some material to so I could refinish it as a full tang. It also had a slight recurve that had been sharpened into the cutting edge over the years that I took out.
I’ve decided to leave the skinner close to as is, only removing some of the swayback.

Hopefully tomorrow evening I’ll finish these up.
 
Nice old knives with lots of history. While I'm not a fan of recurves the “skinner” has a very functional look. I’d be inclined to leave it’s shape alone. Plus the recurve is so deep youd have to loose a lot of material to fix it.

Skinning is only done with the belly and the forward part of the blade anyway.

Looking forward to your end results, but take pictures and keep us updated along the way
 
Here is how they currently sit. They have two coats of TruOil, I’ll probably put another 3 or 4. Then I’ll sharpen them and put em back into use.


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I’m quite upset I can only find one of the previous 3 other Old Hickory that I redid and linked earlier. They are not where they are supposed to be. I can’t recall bringing them anywhere out of the house… it’s almost time to interrogate everyone !
 
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