Coon Skinner

[J. Doyle]

Not really a typical skinner. I'd call it more of a bird and trout or maybe a caper. But a coon hunter from back east commissioned me to make him a knife for dressing and skinning coons. He said it had to be small, thin and pointy. This is what I came up with.

1080+ steel .120 at the ricasso
6 3/4" overall, 2 3/4" cutting edge, just over 3/4" of blade height
Desert Ironwood scales
Brass pins
Dropped and rounded spine
File fullered butt end and spine

 

[Hengelo_77]

Nice one!
The lines flow.
I like your eye for detail, the filed grove and the diameter of the pins getting larger with the handle getting wider.

 

[dhaines]

I want a knife too but we can call it the Killer of Critters!