Dang-it! How to hide a gouge in the blade.

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Well, it figures. I nearly finished the blade in the link and while I'm polishing the petwer guard, I get a little too focused on the guard and I gouge the sides of the blade at the base.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/timwi...w=l&.src=bc&.done=http://briefcase.yahoo.com/

Normally, I would just smooth out the gouges and blend them in, but my problem is that I would have to make the blade to thin for my comfort in order to do that. The blade has a very specific use in mind - it's for a friend who runs a game ranch and is going to use it just to gut animals before he takes them to the butcher. No splitting pelvic bones or any strenuous prying with the blade - just slicing. If that were going to be required, I would just start over. But since the blade is going to be replacing a fillet knife, I feel it's current structural integrity can handle the job it's intended for.

Now, my question is what can I do to hide these gouges? I tried to put on a sort of habaki with brass sheet metal, but I could get it to stay there. I thought of bluing the blade but I'm not sure I want to do that. If nothing else, I think I may drill some holes into the top of the pewter guard near the blade and cast an extended, but thinner petwer ferrule on there that would cover the gouges. Any ideas?

By the way, I don't intend to deceive the recipient of the blade with this. I fully intend to tell him about the gouging and offer to make him another blade should this one break.

Tim
 
I should add, the steel is 0-1 and I intend to do a hand-rub finish once I take care of the darned gouges.

Tim
 
If it's strictly a user I wouldn't worry too much. If it's for a friend, knock a few bucks off the price and he may not mind. Only other thing I can think of is working it into some sort of pattern.
 
Well, it's not really a money thing. He sent me some nice antler and in return I made him a knife. I did think about smoothing the gouges out real nice and pretending they were sort of maker's mark :)

Tim
 
Rhino,
Would you believe that I put gouges on both sides? (DOH!) Well, I think I'll just rub the blade out and see what happens. Two nicely finished grooves on each side might be interesting....

Well, it's only my 3rd knife so I guess it's good to make the mistakes now and learn from them...

Tim
 
Clean them up then show the knife to your friend,If he doesn't like them then you will have to make a new knife.He might not care about them as he is going to use it anyway.You can always give this one to him as a test knife and ake another for his personal carry piece.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Bruce
 
That's your third knife? Wow. Quite nice. I'm working on my third now and I hope it's half that pretty.
 
Good point Bruce. I'm really starting to like this knife anyway... Being a hunter, I sure could put it to use too. Thanks for all the tips guys.

Tim
 
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