Ancient Case Trapper Back From The Dead in Brand New Mint Green Jigged...Leather

[Lemmy Caution]

HI All -

I posted this little project in The Maintenance section but now that its done I thought I'd share it with y'all here. Months back a fellow forumite sent me very old Case Trapper that had replacement leather scales that were falling off on condition that I take it on as a project and fix it up for use. Well I finally did. I wanted to do an homage ot the inventive owner who had used the leather to rescale, so I used some think mint green rawhide I had laying around. I finished it with shellac and super glue and tried to do a subtle jigging pattern on the scales. While my jigging could certainly use some work (as could my camera quality) I think it came out nice and I intend to use this one quite a bit. I'll try to get some better shots of it soon (it actually looks much better in person.) Let me know your thoughts.

Here's the before:

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and here's how it looks now:

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[Alnamvet68]

Well....I'm....I'm...speechless.
Post that baby up in the Patina Patina thread for consideration for this Sunday's next coronation.

 

[arrowhd]

I love resurrecting old knives myself. Good work!

 

[Lemmy Caution]

a little better view of the scales:

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[Woodrow F Call]

Interesting.

 

[arizonaranchman]

Wow great job of bringing that one back to life!

 

[Lemmy Caution]

haha, does interesting mean ugly?

Interesting.

 

[Lemmy Caution]

So I wasn't quite happy with the jigging and colors of the scales so I spent a bit more time, jigged some more and applied brown, red, and yellow stains between in layers between sanding. Here it is finished:

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[seas165]

Wow that came out great! I never thought to use leather. I may have to try this sometime .

 

[link2derek]

Good job - turned out nicely!

 

[Lemmy Caution]

Wow that came out great! I never thought to use leather. I may have to try this sometime .

hey thanks -
yeah I have a bunch of this leather I got from a surplus store and I think I'm going to experiment with different jigging patterns and colors. I'm just keeping an eye out for deals on knives with missing or damaged scales.