This is my first post ever so go easy...
A few years back my grandpa died. He was very close to me, like a second father. I miss him dearly.
The other day, I was looking around in the shed next to his house for something, and found not what I was looking for, but instead a deer antler. I scoured all over to find it's twin, but found nothing. I realized that this particular antler had to have been a shed found somewhere in the canyon we lived in. I held the single antler in my hand wondering what to do with it when I was stricken by inspiration: I would make it into a knife. I had never made a knife before, and I was completely in the dark as to how I was going to do it, but after a purchase from a knife making kit site, a lot of terrible smell and some hard earned epoxy it was done. The product?
I left the brow tine on, because my fingers fit around it nicely and it gives a little bit of a place to grip it. Some people questioned why I did, because their hands don't fit it as well, but to be honest I don't mind if my hand is the only one that fits comfortably. It's my knife! I'm currently looking into finding it a sheathe, but for now it sits on my shelf until I do.
That's the only picture I have for right now, I'll try and get some more up soon
A few years back my grandpa died. He was very close to me, like a second father. I miss him dearly.
The other day, I was looking around in the shed next to his house for something, and found not what I was looking for, but instead a deer antler. I scoured all over to find it's twin, but found nothing. I realized that this particular antler had to have been a shed found somewhere in the canyon we lived in. I held the single antler in my hand wondering what to do with it when I was stricken by inspiration: I would make it into a knife. I had never made a knife before, and I was completely in the dark as to how I was going to do it, but after a purchase from a knife making kit site, a lot of terrible smell and some hard earned epoxy it was done. The product?
I left the brow tine on, because my fingers fit around it nicely and it gives a little bit of a place to grip it. Some people questioned why I did, because their hands don't fit it as well, but to be honest I don't mind if my hand is the only one that fits comfortably. It's my knife! I'm currently looking into finding it a sheathe, but for now it sits on my shelf until I do.
That's the only picture I have for right now, I'll try and get some more up soon
