My latest muskrat

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I got this one from a guy in a box of parts knives he gave me. The blades were slow and badly pitted. I removed the pits and returned it to the origional type brushed finish, crinked the springs to return the nsap back to the blades and added some pinned jigged red bone, cause I can't stand that sawcut delrin. Believe it or not, thats the best picture I've been able to get of the darn thing! Not a photogenic knife by any means. Should make a good carry.

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Very nice! I wish I had the patience to learn to do bone...and the pins that well!

Michael
 
Thanks Michael, you know-everyone I know uses those head spinners to do the pins but dang if I can get'em to work! I just peen all my heads by hand and remove the peen marks afterwards. The bone was pre-jigged, haven't had the chance/patience to learn to jig it yet, can't be ALL that hard though?
 
You know, a lot of the things I do are done the "old fashioned way". And the results are just fine. A few years ago...well, OK, a few decades ago, I was one of the few patent illustrators who still did the patent drawings in india ink on bristol board. The U.S. Patent Office loved my work because it looked exactly like the stuff in their archives from the previous century.

Same for my civil engineering and architectural drawings. No one was using templates, tech pens and ink on vellum like I was. So I went back to college and got a new degree, CAD engineering drafting, with semi-anual program upgrade training. Yeah, I'm a whiz with AutoCad, VersaCad, etc., but I can still do it faster and better with ink on paper.

People used to specialize in jigging bone, and many had their own styles before it became mechanized. I think BRL called them "bonehands".

Michael
 
Nice handle job, MM! Looking forward to more;-)
FYI here are some single-authorship knives, for you to see the hand-jigged bone. Terry Davis jigs and dyes his own bone handles, heat-treats his own steel (ATS-34 0n these)!!
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Thanks for the comments guys, and thanks for the pictures Charlie! Those are some real nice knives, I like the random pattern of the hand jigged bone. Great color too!
 
Muskrat Man,
I like it! I would carry it proudly (especially if I had the chops to put it together). Keep those projects coming. You do nice work.

KS
 
MM, As usual great job.

Charlie, Tell me about the middle knife. Looks a bit different. Almost as if the handle is on backwards. Great lookers.

TTYL
Larry
 
Terry Davis researches his patterns meticulously, Larry. This little pen is influenced by high end knives of a century ago. When I first posted it, someone posted old catalog cuts of the pattern, but I can't find them. As you can see from this pic, the wharcliffe blade fits the handle beautifully when it is closed. Terry's knives look just right, open or closed IMO!
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Charlie,
I agree Beautiful knife. I have not seen one of this design before.
Do you know if it was designed as a draw knife for fine carving or whittling?
Thanks
Larry
 
Theoretical rambling:
At 3 5/16" I think it was/is intended to be a gentleman's pocket jewelry! A true whittling tool would have a fuller handle, and a shorter blade (think Warren whittler). A draw knife wouldn't have a sunk joint because of the sacrifice of strength from the off-center pivot needed to sink the joint.
It's particularly well suited for cutting fruit, and extracting newspaper articles and crossword puzzles. Makes me want to carry it! I will when I retire maybe.
A couple of pennies worth!
 
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