Old Hickory Nessmuk Project

[myright]

Great work! That looks like a lot of fun!!

 

[vector001]

great work and tutorial, brother firefox.

i've been learning sheaths on an Old Hickory 14" Butcher lately.

a suggestion;

if you make a sheath, make sure and try to make use of the sweep of your blade by having a curve in the spine side of your sheath - maybe you could do this by wet-forming leather - i don't know.

i made this one out of formed micarta and a little composite for the liner.

it locks when the spine is against the spine of the sheath...

and unlocks when you push the blade forward and pull the blade out.

the idea was to make a sheath that locked and held, but without hardware, etc.

it seems like one could do this for themself, with leather.

which would look great with a Nessmuck IMHO.

HTH.

vec

 

[rayban]

Lookin good!! Remember that you can take the scales off, reshape the tang, re-drill pin holes, and make the knife totaly different!!!

I need a steel lesson here Andy.....why is it I was able to drill a lanyard tube hole so easily in this guy, whereas on other hardened blades I haven't been able to make a dent?? For instance on Ragnar's Cobbler's Blade.

 

[the rat]

That looks great , never thought about using the OH knives like that. I'm gonna have to try it myself.

 

[vector001]

I need a steel lesson here Andy.....why is it I was able to drill a lanyard tube hole so easily in this guy, whereas on other hardened blades I haven't been able to make a dent?? For instance on Ragnar's Cobbler's Blade.

the tang's probably annealed.

vec

 

[Fox Creek]

RAYBAN, the OH knives are not very hard. That's why a butchers steel does such a good job on keeping them sharp. They are great field knives because they may be honed/stropped/sharpened on a lot of different surfaces. I would not expect trouble drilling a OH blade anywhere on the blade. In fact, you can easily over sharpen and wear down a softer blade like this if you put it on a good agressive oil stone or water stone to "touch it up"often. A sheath with a short butchers steel slot combined would be a great combo with these knives.

 

[rayban]

Thanks FOX....good info:thumbup:

 

[ChapmanPreferred]

Great job guys! I love the mod.

 

[thefirefox]

Any more progress pics rayban?

 

[rayban]

Thanks for all the kind words. I appreciate it, especially from the talented knifemakers here. I am already planning on doing another one a bit smaller and have my eye on a few other OH knives...

Glad I could be a prod in your rear Rayban. Keep us posted on your progress. I am interested to see what you had in mind for a sheath. I have neither the skills nor the tools for proper sheath making.

Finally!!

 

[Shotgun]

Very nice result. The leather is nice too.

 

[the lone gunman]

I enjoyed this post. Nice pics, Thanks and it looks great.

 

[PayetteRucker]

professional looking edge. I have the pigsticker style old hickory, makes for a good boot/throwing knife. It really should see some belt grinder time though the edge is still pretty dull and keeping the rust off is a constant battle-i'll prolly give it the mustard bath this week.

 

[PayetteRucker]

Also nylon webbing makes great sheath material-break out the 550 chord guts with a yarn needle and sew your own sheath. Then burn the edges to keep them from fraying. That's how I did my Old Hickory sheeth, too.

 

[sixgunner455]

That is some excellent leather work.

 

[ChapmanPreferred]

Really quite lovely! Well done!

 

[Loosearrow]

Finally!!

Oh my that is nice. Such talent. Something like that would look great on my kukri. Nice pattern.