Side quest in the shop today

[Bill Siegle]

I’ve had these blades for a bit now and decided today was the day for one of them. I added some natural canvas Micarta scales to an old Cold Steel Red River knife blank. Other than some difficulty drilling the one hole out for tubing, it went pretty smoothly. I decided to keep the handle contours fairly traditional for a Green River style blade and I’m pretty happy with the results!

 

[Leviathan Arms]

That turned out well

 

[Bill Siegle]

Thank you

 

[1066vik]

I've got a scalper and a butcher from those days

 

[other memory]

That's awesome. I love adaptive reuse. Cool that it worked out.

 

[qmether]

This is as cool as this knife could be.
Someday I'll commission a BK17 with a Siegle rehandle. Or maybe just a Siegle interpretation of the BK17.

 

[John A. Larsen]

Bill, I have a Cold Steel Hudson Bay "Scalper" from that same time frame. I thought it was in 52100, but checking on line it is supposedly made from Carbon V, and being a CS product that makes more sense. Is this knife Carbon V too? John

 

[Bill Siegle]

I believe these were all Carbon V

 

[1066vik]

They were all carbonV, which was 0170-6 (aka Sharon Steel) and were made by Camillus for CS.