It's the UF. I laid it in front of the Dek to try and see what the tip and swedge would look like. Fk2 is probably the best one to compare but I don't have one with a swedge.
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It's the UF. I laid it in front of the Dek to try and see what the tip and swedge would look like. Fk2 is probably the best one to compare but I don't have one with a swedge.
While still on my DEK preorder high, I was motivated to take a few photos of my last two preorder knives. I didn't know how the acid wash and satin primaries were going to look but being from CPK I knew I would love it, which of course I do. The acid wash with swedge is no slouch either and will be my user this fall at hunting camp.
Wood on satin at hunting camp?!? Damnnnn!
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My deer knife is Osage on satin, can't beat it.
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Nathan the Machinist
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I like a stonewashed finish on my tool knives that get beat up and used regularly, but I don't actually use my deer knife regularly. Like many of you I'm pretty busy and overwhelmed most of the time and my hunts are a special time for me. I enjoy having special tools for it.
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Thanks! The handles are unbuffed though.
Is it a D2 Skinner?
It's either a deer knife or a dear wife... Sorry, can't mix and match as you please
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Dear? Ugh...
Deer. My deer knife. Is a nice finely finished D2 Skinner in some nice chatoyancet Osage orange
^ OK dear, whatever you say 
BTW, Nathan has a thick hide, me thinks... No matter how much I have tormented him, he has not once spat on my knives... None that I know of
BTW, Nathan has a thick hide, me thinks... No matter how much I have tormented him, he has not once spat on my knives... None that I know of
I figured as much. Sounds beautiful. I wish that piece of Osage down there wasn’t giving you so much trouble. I expected much less with it’s age.
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So far for me the best Osage orange came from logs taken off of my aunts farm in Oklahoma. Other Osage orange that I have purchased online has lacked the gem like glimmer and interesting grain and was less dimensionally stable. I don't know much about wood, I just know it has been hit and miss and the Osage that I saw up myself so far has been the best.
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I have about a hundred pounds of 15-year-old Osage logs ready to be cut up. Probably yield 5 or 10 lb of scales material...