SSonnentag
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We have a great family friend who has always liked to tinker around in his shop. He can do just about anything he sets his mind to. He overhauls engines, makes guns, repairs clocks, just about anything mechanical he's up to the task for.
Well, being 88 years old now, he decided that it was time that he try his hand at knife making. So as a first knife project he decided to make a knife for me to add to my collection. He took an old saw blade my paternal grandfather had, and a block of wood from a Black Walnut tree that my maternal grandfather had grown and cut down years ago, and combined them into a knife.
So here it is. The blade is from Grandpa S's saw and the handle is Black Walnut from Grandpa C's tree.
This is the Black Walnut tree around 1980.
And here it is just before being cut down around 1995.
Well, being 88 years old now, he decided that it was time that he try his hand at knife making. So as a first knife project he decided to make a knife for me to add to my collection. He took an old saw blade my paternal grandfather had, and a block of wood from a Black Walnut tree that my maternal grandfather had grown and cut down years ago, and combined them into a knife.
So here it is. The blade is from Grandpa S's saw and the handle is Black Walnut from Grandpa C's tree.
This is the Black Walnut tree around 1980.
And here it is just before being cut down around 1995.
Sadly, all but one sizeable chunk of the tree that my grandfather saved out to make gun stocks with (and this knife), was used as firewood over the next several years.
