muskrat man
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Hi guys,
I have always considered victorinox knives a good all around knife, much like a stockman pattern knife, but I never could bring myself to love the red plastic like sawcut derlin, wood, or bone. So I re-handled my tinker and my other (not sure of the model. Yesterday I set out and re-handled these babies, the first (tinker with walnut) has many flaws, and eventually will re-handle my re-handle. but my second attempt (2 blade with mulberry) turned out pretty good. the mulberry was a piece of log I got from a guy who was cutting down a dead mulberry tree. It has been in the garage for about a month or two. I split it yesterday with wedges and a bif splinter broke off. Dad said it was too small to do anything with. But it looked O.K to me so I squared it and evened it up on the beltsander. It worked out great. All inletting was done with a dremel and they were atached with Devcon epoxy. I took pics all the way through the process, someday i'll get around to making a how-to document in MS word. anyway here ya go, what do ya think? My next preoject is an imperial fish knife (the pic I posted here) Just trying to decide on the wood to use.
ya'll take Care
MM
I have always considered victorinox knives a good all around knife, much like a stockman pattern knife, but I never could bring myself to love the red plastic like sawcut derlin, wood, or bone. So I re-handled my tinker and my other (not sure of the model. Yesterday I set out and re-handled these babies, the first (tinker with walnut) has many flaws, and eventually will re-handle my re-handle. but my second attempt (2 blade with mulberry) turned out pretty good. the mulberry was a piece of log I got from a guy who was cutting down a dead mulberry tree. It has been in the garage for about a month or two. I split it yesterday with wedges and a bif splinter broke off. Dad said it was too small to do anything with. But it looked O.K to me so I squared it and evened it up on the beltsander. It worked out great. All inletting was done with a dremel and they were atached with Devcon epoxy. I took pics all the way through the process, someday i'll get around to making a how-to document in MS word. anyway here ya go, what do ya think? My next preoject is an imperial fish knife (the pic I posted here) Just trying to decide on the wood to use.
ya'll take Care
MM
