A couple of my home made patch knives

I love the old Henkels too. Mine are all burned up but ive been slowly restoring them. Ive had to harden them again after a two week anealing. Then i differentially temper, polish and put new handles on them. They look kinda rustic and pitted but they are still JA Henkels:thumbup: I have a set of steak knives (the good ones with the welded bolsters) im restoring with zebra wood now. Yes the KK's are great knives!
dang Bookie! Making applesauce again:eek:
 
Coincidence?? We have Henkels, too, but ours are the newer saw toothed variety. Great on bread, steaks, and froze food, but really rough on my cutting board. Got to feeling sorry for myself tonight. Everone gettin' some new kuks an' me just sittin' here in the middle of Corn Patch making like a wannabe. Sniff-sniff. But, I went down stairs and started playing with this kuk I got a couple three weeks ago inna mail. Like I said, I was bored....
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this is something I have done very crudely on many of my own blades before I was collecting to keep them pristine and "trade worthy" ( i scratched really simple zigzags in some of my bolsters and on the but plates, nothing near so clean as that :D

keep it up bookie ! always cool to see the tools you have and the things you can manage with them :D
 
China White? That the same thing some of these pathetic losers stuff up their nose, cost tons of money they need to steal to get? Same stuff.

You done real good on that, your one of them guys what can get r dun iffen you put your mind to it.

Wish I had half your talent along with a fully functioning brain. Something to wish for ya know?
 
I like that buttplate Bookie! Very nice job... I need to get up to corn patch and learn something.
 
Bawanna, I don't know if it's the same stuff people snort or not. Mind you, my nostrils are sorta large, but the China White is in a plastic 5 sided box, which is really, really small, but I just couldn't get enough suction agoin' to get that thing snorted proper like. Sorta tickled, though. China White is a tiny block of some kind of mysterious white stuff that is hard to the touch. To use, you lick your finger, swirl it around on the block, and then smear whatever is stuck on your finger onto the item you wish to bugger up. Let it dry, which is very quickly, and then draw the design that you will bugger up. Make sure you like what you drew because once engraved, there is no erasing. That is the first piece I have engraved in 3 years. Did this patchbox of a pigeon on a kid's rifle when I was learning years ago. This it must be about the only photo I have of some of the stuff I've done like this. Admittedly, not a lot of expertise.
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I think it's awesome and a great decoration for a patch box. I just sorely lack artistic capability. If someone drew the whatever I could carve it, I only recently tried engraving with mixed results.

I just can't draw a decent picture of something and make it look right. I bet that kid is still digging that rifle though, pretty durn sure of that.

I'll have to ask the missus if she ever heard of this china white stuff, maybe it would act like a black board and I could have do overs.
 
Pretty quiet down in Corn Patch today? Either the forge is running hot or Bookie's taking a damn nap. I suspect the latter.

And that's perfectly ok. I'm ready for one too.
 
Gehazi, here are a few photos for your enjoyment. This is a East Tennessee squirrel rifle recently sold on the secondary market that went to Texas. It sold for 2.6 times what the original owner paid for it. Turned out that the fellow who bought it happened to fly with me in Vietnam!...and he was happy about that coincidence. The barrel is only 3/4" across the flats. I made everything you see in the photos with no electricity. The nose cap was poured from molten pewter.
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Ain't she sweet. Reckon that nose cap took a little time and effort for sure. Never seen one like it.

Squirrel rifle, no doubt kept out of sight from Helga, probably like 36 caliber or so. Heard they are just a lot of fun and a guy or Shavru can shoot all day for a buck or two.

That's a beauty Bookie and what are the odds a guy you flew with ended up with it. That's a mind boggler right there. Tell me that ain't some kind of coincidence!
 
I had to go back and research Durty Nellie some. "SHE" was a 36 caliber and if my eyes ain't fooling me a percussion model as opposed to this flintlock. It just occurred to me that I never ever shot a flintlock, that just don't seem right.

Found a target from her first over the log shoot too. Amazing work my friend, absolutely incredible stuff.

I only got a little black powder but several cans of Triple 7 somebody gave me that I never have used. I think I'll snort a can or two when I get home for black powder nostalgia.
 
Definitely a beautiful piece Bookie! I dont know how you can let go of something like that after so much work but then again sounds like it found a deserving home.
 
Yes, I can let it go. I'm on #399, restock/repair of my GGGGGGgrandpa's last known flintlock he made about 1828 and #400, my masterpiece for myself. The wooden stock plank is only $300.........
My Durty Nelly is a true .36 cal. Not what you buy in today's market. The 4 foot barrel was made by my Grandpa 'round the turn of the last century and never rifled. I did that with my 5 groove, left hand twist and she is a certified spider killer and a bonafide tack driver.
 
Like the folks before me I really like the nosecap. Unique and beautiful. I need a good spider killer, got some really big ones headed inside last couple of days. It looks like they have been eating REALLY well this summer but I think I will use something a little less damaging to the walls than a .36 caliber. I agree with Bawanna on the fact that is SOME coincidence having a guy who flew with you get one of your rifles on the secondary market. Heck from seeing the pictures you post of the weird angles you turned choppers, I am surprised anyone that flew with you has quit vomitting long enough to buy a rifle even this many years later :D hehee!
 
We've been seeing some wicked big spiders coming in too. Bumper crop for huge spiders for sure. There was one the other day I just might have used the 36 on, big ole bad boy.
 
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