In my ongoing search for vintage carbon steel tools/implements to transform into knives, an old man at the local market asked me why I did not make a knife from sheep shears
Told me that was the only knife his mother ever had in her kitchen.
His dad had been a professional sheepshearer and because he did not earn all that much, transformed his worn out shears into a kitchen/camp knives for his wife’s use.
That got me thinking.
These tools were made from top quality steel.
Over the years I have make quite a number of these and they are great camp/kitchen utility knives.
This particular blade were made in Sheffield and date from the period between 1880 and WW1.
The handle is Blackwood from the woods around my home, shaped by nature with minimal interference from me.
Blade is a touch over 5" in lenght and so is the handle.
I tried to make this knife look like it was hand-made during the 1880's.
Sheath has a leather front, wood at the back, a bit of copper and an old-fashioned tie down.
SOLD (Paypal only please)
Dirk
Told me that was the only knife his mother ever had in her kitchen.
His dad had been a professional sheepshearer and because he did not earn all that much, transformed his worn out shears into a kitchen/camp knives for his wife’s use.
That got me thinking.
These tools were made from top quality steel.
Over the years I have make quite a number of these and they are great camp/kitchen utility knives.
This particular blade were made in Sheffield and date from the period between 1880 and WW1.
The handle is Blackwood from the woods around my home, shaped by nature with minimal interference from me.
Blade is a touch over 5" in lenght and so is the handle.
I tried to make this knife look like it was hand-made during the 1880's.
Sheath has a leather front, wood at the back, a bit of copper and an old-fashioned tie down.
SOLD (Paypal only please)
Dirk
