Gettin' Jiggy With It - Jigged Bone Photos

An older one of mine seen at a show. I like how the blue goes white sometimes where you work it.

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One more, and probably the coolest jigged bone I’ve seen. Talk about jigging it to look like stag, and then dyed to look like amber stag at that! The nice thing about doing it this way is that you can create all the valleys and grooves that you want rather than risk losing them in the process of hafting and finishing real stag. It also allows you to sculpt the handle so that it’s nice and even on both sides, and contoured, leaving no sharp edges whereas working with real stag can present all sorts of road blocks.

W.C. Davis Loveless style Drop Point Hunter:

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Jsega51 said:
One more, and probably the coolest jigged bone I’ve seen. Talk about jigging it to look like stag, and then dyed to look like amber stag at that! The nice thing about doing it this way is that you can create all the valleys and grooves that you want rather than risk losing them in the process of hafting and finishing real stag. It also allows you to sculpt the handle so that it’s nice and even on both sides, and contoured, leaving no sharp edges whereas working with real stag can present all sorts of road blocks.

W.C. Davis Loveless style Drop Point Hunter:

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Holy cow! (Pun intended). That looks just like killer stag!
 
MerryMadMonk said:
Buzz, your pictures capture the beauty of those WWII knives as about as well I've ever seen. I have a couple of these knives... and your pics make me want to go out and find a couple more!
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Al, you just said exactly the same thing I was thinking! :)
 
MerryMadMonk said:
Buzz, your pictures capture the beauty of those WWII knives as about as well I've ever seen. I have a couple of these knives... and your pics make me want to go out and find a couple more!
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Half/Stop said:
Al, you just said exactly the same thing I was thinking! :)
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Thank you so much, both of you. I've very much acquired a taste for these Camillus wartime knives over the last couple of years. The bone coloration and random jigging are just wonderful. And they're are so many variations that they're a ton of fun to collect. Camillus pumped out a huge number of these scouts, so auction sites are plentiful. Lots of knives to go around. It's amazing how well so many of these knives have survived, even after hard use. It's a testament to the quality that Camillus was producing at this point in time.

The hardest part for me is staying focused on Camillus. So many manufacturers were part of the wartime effort, that one could easily branch out into Ulster, Pal, Boker etc.
 
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