Camping trip and new knife made

clemsonreeder

clemsonreeder

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I spent the night under the starts on my own little 160 acre paradise and had a blast. Caught a few bass, fried them up over the fire, it was an all around good time.
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After I got back home I finished up a knife I was making for my father-in-law for Christmas. He wanted a size in between a Buck 102 and 119 so I came up with this...1095 steel, black ash burl, homemade mosaic pins, stainless guard and bolsters. Pictured next to a 102.
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That knife looks great. :thumbup:




"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike
 
Great knife, and by eliminating the top guard you really enhanced the functionality of the design for bush chores. Nice Work!
 
Yum, bass fried over a fire!

The knife looks great, I love the burl, great job!
 
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Great looking knife 'Ol Bud :thumbup: If it's anything like the "Mini-Reeder" then your father-n-law will love it ! Thanks for sharing the pics !
 
Mosaic pins aren't that tough to make, if you'd like to know I'll be glad to tell you. Probably took me 10 min. to make those. (not counting curing time for epoxy).
 
Nice knife!

I kindly understand about making mosaic pins by loading a tube with different diam. pieces of rod, but how do you get the epoxy in? And what kind of epoxy? Do you color the epoxy with paint or something?
 
StretchNM said:
Nice knife!

I kindly understand about making mosaic pins by loading a tube with different diam. pieces of rod, but how do you get the epoxy in? And what kind of epoxy? Do you color the epoxy with paint or something?
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I have done it a few different ways so far:
1. Use a two part paste like JB weld (wich finished black or gray) and after the rods were in the tube I put some of the epoxy on a piece of leather and packed it in the tube like you would pack wheel bearings with grease (basically shoving the tube down onto the epoxy and forcing it up through until it comes out the top).
2. Use some of the liquid two part epoxy that is more runny and a shop vac and surgical tubing on both ends and sucked it up into the tube then clamped off the tubing and let it cure.
3. Same liquid epoxy as #2, put the surgical tubing on the bottom of the pin tube and clamp it off. Fill the entire thing up with the epoxy then drop in your pins one at a time and more or less let them fall at their own pace, clean up the overflow and let it cure.

I have found #3 to be the easiest and quickest by far. I did not dye the liquid epoxy even though it is a milky color, it seams to finish black. I know a lot of guys that do dye the epoxy but I personally have never done it. Either way you probably want to use a 60 min. epoxy or longer to give you enough time to get everything the way you want it.
 
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