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My brother in Law, who is an all around nice guy and sells me tires at cost and lets me use his shop (with hoist) has been wanting a big Ol knife with a horn handle to hang on the wall of his shop. Came across a couple of spike bull elk horns and this is what I come up with. It was one of those knives that I kept having little problems with. Took a while to finally get the blade flat with no little low spots. Then after hardening it was straight after 1st temper, it seemed straight but, don't remember really checking after 2nd temper it had a bit of "wow" Made a little jig for my arbor press and kept sticking it in the oven at 425f and then working it until straight. Got the finish grinding and sanding done and it thinned up a little getting dead flat again after the tweaking, so it was right at a 0 edge when I was done sanding. Then, I got the guard slot a tiny bit wide. Decided to go with a aluminum bronze piece in front of that. Was thin enough I ended up making a little jig to hold it against the belt so another handy dandy besides the straightening jig came out of it. Then after I got it all glued up I knicked the spacer in front of the lath turned cap with the grinder while getting the horn to match it. So had to fiddle with that.
A one thing and another knife and the lines are so straight I am not sure I like it. Comments please
A one thing and another knife and the lines are so straight I am not sure I like it. Comments please
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