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I had a pretty good knife sale today so I feel like I can almost give myself the rest of the day off, thought I'd right on here a little. One of the questions most often asked in my knife shop is "Does anyone ever use these knives?" and of course, my answer is, "Well yes, some people do but most don't".
My wife and I got a chance to visit some friends of ours over the labor day weekend that live in a remote Yukon river village called Ruby Alaska. About a year ago David bought one of my knives for his wife Nancy who wears it almost everywhere she goes, and uses it for almost anything you would use a light duty belt knife for. She does not, however, let him use it for anything. He is admittedly rough on everything he uses. For him I am building a "No-screwing-around heavy duty, Bowie/chopper"
So here are some pictures of the life of a knife in Ruby, Alaska.
Here is a montage of the knife as Coop assembled it about a year ago, I had borrowed it back from Nancy a month or two after finishing it to have the shots made, you can see just a little scabbard wear on the knife and a little wear on the scabbard in these shots.
Preparing dinner, peeling some garlic.
Showing us some herbs from the garden
Mmm, Dinner, the best use for a knife like this, if you are going to use a knife like this.
Dishes, she didn't use it for the dishes, I just like the way it looked while she did the dishes.
Rhubarb for the tart, no she ain't a tart, she made a tart for after lunch on day two.
We went spruce grouse hunting, after the hunt Dave and I did some stuff in town while the girls, new to grouse cleaning, plucked the birds and took pictures, after we we got back, I almost didn't have the heart to tell them that all of their hard work plucking was for nothing, the backs and wings on the grouse have no meat, so we just breast them.
I showed them how to fillet the breast out. We also saved the gizzards, hearts and legs. These birds were full of cranberries, that makes them especially tasty this time of year.
Here's how the knife looks after a year of respectfull use. You can tell it has been used but it still looks pretty good to me. The handle is natural abalone that I laminated in a way that you see the shimmery stuff 360 degrees around the handle, no side grain, takes about 10 natural shells to make one this way. It also has some blue amber spacers and nickle silver. I hope you liked our trip to Ruby, we had a great time. We also did some sheefish fishing, and a short afternoon of moose hunting.
My wife and I got a chance to visit some friends of ours over the labor day weekend that live in a remote Yukon river village called Ruby Alaska. About a year ago David bought one of my knives for his wife Nancy who wears it almost everywhere she goes, and uses it for almost anything you would use a light duty belt knife for. She does not, however, let him use it for anything. He is admittedly rough on everything he uses. For him I am building a "No-screwing-around heavy duty, Bowie/chopper"
So here are some pictures of the life of a knife in Ruby, Alaska.
Here is a montage of the knife as Coop assembled it about a year ago, I had borrowed it back from Nancy a month or two after finishing it to have the shots made, you can see just a little scabbard wear on the knife and a little wear on the scabbard in these shots.
Preparing dinner, peeling some garlic.
Showing us some herbs from the garden
Mmm, Dinner, the best use for a knife like this, if you are going to use a knife like this.
Dishes, she didn't use it for the dishes, I just like the way it looked while she did the dishes.
Rhubarb for the tart, no she ain't a tart, she made a tart for after lunch on day two.
We went spruce grouse hunting, after the hunt Dave and I did some stuff in town while the girls, new to grouse cleaning, plucked the birds and took pictures, after we we got back, I almost didn't have the heart to tell them that all of their hard work plucking was for nothing, the backs and wings on the grouse have no meat, so we just breast them.
I showed them how to fillet the breast out. We also saved the gizzards, hearts and legs. These birds were full of cranberries, that makes them especially tasty this time of year.
Here's how the knife looks after a year of respectfull use. You can tell it has been used but it still looks pretty good to me. The handle is natural abalone that I laminated in a way that you see the shimmery stuff 360 degrees around the handle, no side grain, takes about 10 natural shells to make one this way. It also has some blue amber spacers and nickle silver. I hope you liked our trip to Ruby, we had a great time. We also did some sheefish fishing, and a short afternoon of moose hunting.
knife...I especially like the abalone inlay in the sheath. So is the shell on the handle cut into strips and then laminated on all the way around? My dad dove for abs for years and I would love to make him knife with something similar for a handle. Thanks for sharing!
