Nessie and her nest ;-)

Pipeman · Jan 16, 2011

Thought I'd make myself a nessie for my trio. A nice thin slicer/skinner, 1095 carbon,with a vinegar etch and hamon.

white tail handle. The sheath is dyed Elk over 9oz veggie, painted fringe in the plains style, with brass studs.
Sorry for the really crappy pics.

Best regards

Robin

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pullrich · Jan 16, 2011

Beautiful! How is the tang secured?

Pipeman · Jan 16, 2011

pullrich said:
Beautiful! How is the tang secured?

The tang is long, wide and curves to past the half length of the handle, notched all around the edge of the tang then filled with steel epoxy and dust from drilling out the stag. The ferule is leather soaked in crazy glue. I usually pin the tang but have made lots like this one and they have never come apart with real hard use.

Best regards

Robin

762 shooter · Jan 16, 2011

I usually do not like the look of antler handled knives. That is a beautiful knife for sure! Combined with that sheath and it puts it well over the top. Excellent work, sir!

theevilmike · Jan 16, 2011

very nice Robin

mike

Pipeman · Jan 16, 2011

762 shooter said:
I usually do not like the look of antler handled knives. That is a beautiful knife for sure! Combined with that sheath and it puts it well over the top. Excellent work, sir!

Hey Shooter
I just scored a Huge pile of antler with so many good handles.

I like to build Nesmuks with a dropped handle, it alines the curved blade tip up well for skinning IMO. Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.

Thanks Mike, how is the burl coming along?
Best regards

Robin

pullrich · Jan 16, 2011

Pipeman said:
The tang is long, wide and curves to past the half length of the handle, notched all around the edge of the tang then filled with steel epoxy and dust from drilling out the stag. The ferule is leather soaked in crazy glue. I usually pin the tang but have made lots like this one and they have never come apart with real hard use.

Thanks Robin. I have a custom chopper and plan to mount it in an elk antler tine. Was wondering about molten pewter to fill around the tang versus some sort of epoxy as you noted.

Pipeman · Jan 17, 2011

pullrich said:
Thanks Robin. I have a custom chopper and plan to mount it in an elk antler tine. Was wondering about molten pewter to fill around the tang versus some sort of epoxy as you noted.

Hi Pullrich
Using molten pewter might be a problem as it would likely cool and harden before you got the blade in the hole and all centered up. If you're thinking a design on the outside of the handle in pewter you could set the blade in good epoxy and do the pewter fancy work after. Doing it that way you would have to watch that the molten pewter didn't heat the handle to a point of softening the epoxy. On a big chopper I would put a pin or two through the handle and tang as well as you're likely going to be putting it to hard use.

Best regards

Robin

pullrich · Jan 17, 2011

Good points, I should probably work with epoxy. Any recs for brands?
Considering a pewter bolster, maybe even something like a subhilt. The tang will be fitting all the way through the antler and is threaded at the end to receive a bolt. So cap and bolt at bottom of hilt.

Pipeman · Jan 17, 2011

pullrich said:
Good points, I should probably work with epoxy. Any recs for brands?
Considering a pewter bolster, maybe even something like a subhilt. The tang will be fitting all the way through the antler and is threaded at the end to receive a bolt. So cap and bolt at bottom of hilt.

Any good 1 hour epoxy should be fine, i use lepages. The threaded tang should work great. I'll be interested in seeing how it turns out, you do very nice work.

Best regards

Robin

Dusty One · Jan 17, 2011

Great looking knife and sheath................

Edwood7 · Jan 17, 2011

As always, just grate work.

Loosearrow · Jan 18, 2011

Great looking knife and sheath to boot. I always enjoy seeing what you will come up with next. I like the primitive style. Regards. Lee

Pipeman · Jan 18, 2011

Loosearrow said:
Great looking knife and sheath to boot. I always enjoy seeing what you will come up with next. I like the primitive style. Regards. Lee

Thanks Lee
The winter gives me time to play and make new stock and some toys for myself (usually sell them anyway))). I'm making a companion piece for this knife and sheath, a small belt pouch as a "strike a light" kit. I'll post it in this thread. Right now I'm doing a rawhide sheath for a member here to cover his frontier hawk.

Best regards

Robin

Thanks Ed and Dusty for your comments.

R