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First knife from my 2x72 grinder:
A friend of mine does the "Cowboy" competiton shooting and said I should try to make a Buffalo skinner.
Blade: 5" Triple Quenched, Triple Tempered, Forged 5160, then etched for an "aged" look.
Handle: 4.25" Guayacan (sp?) with brass hardware.
Sheath: Handstitched 9 oz leather Wet formed to handle. Sealed with beeswax waterproofer.
I put a nice edge on it a gave it a good test (didn't have any buffalo handy ):
2 passes through a 2x4, chopped some dead limbs off of an apple tree, cut down some maple saplings, cut some pine boughs, some more dead limbs from a crabapple tree (would've chopped more but it was getting late and my arm was getting tired!) and still had a shaving edge.
Finished knife (bad picture)
After edge test, before finishing handle
Edge test
Still Sharp!
Thanks for looking
A friend of mine does the "Cowboy" competiton shooting and said I should try to make a Buffalo skinner.
Blade: 5" Triple Quenched, Triple Tempered, Forged 5160, then etched for an "aged" look.
Handle: 4.25" Guayacan (sp?) with brass hardware.
Sheath: Handstitched 9 oz leather Wet formed to handle. Sealed with beeswax waterproofer.
I put a nice edge on it a gave it a good test (didn't have any buffalo handy ):
2 passes through a 2x4, chopped some dead limbs off of an apple tree, cut down some maple saplings, cut some pine boughs, some more dead limbs from a crabapple tree (would've chopped more but it was getting late and my arm was getting tired!) and still had a shaving edge.
Finished knife (bad picture)
After edge test, before finishing handle
Edge test
Still Sharp!
Thanks for looking
