Traditional French Fry day

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Got a smallish one in, handle is almost too small, but I do like the size of the blade.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Made a nice leather slip sheath for her, very supple milled leather dyed brown and used yellow sewing thread.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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Gary W. Graley said:
Got a smallish one in, handle is almost too small, but I do like the size of the blade.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Made a nice leather slip sheath for her, very supple milled leather dyed brown and used yellow sewing thread.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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Your leatherwork is always outstanding! I made my first leather slip recently and it made me realize that it's definitely quite a skill to do stitching like yours. Well done!!

The knife ain't so bad either. ;)
 
Thanks, I only recently learned how to do the two needle saddle stitch which works great on softer leather like this, before I used the Awl-n-Awl and it would bunch up the leather so I hated making softer leather sheaths, but now, I like it a great deal.

As to that knife,

Here's a video I just made with it, blade steel is in 14C28N that I just sharpened up yesterday,


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edited to add this video that shows how I remove folders from the slip sheaths when they do not have a lanyard, basically you wriggle the leather back and forth while applying pressure to the bottom of the knife, squeezing it forward much like a tube of toothpaste, until the end of the knife presents itself and you can then pull it out the rest of the way.

 
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Gary W. Graley said:
Got a smallish one in, handle is almost too small, but I do like the size of the blade.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Made a nice leather slip sheath for her, very supple milled leather dyed brown and used yellow sewing thread.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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Beautiful Gary. Are you going to try and hold on to this one for longer than a week? It seems you like horse trading almost as much as you like knives. 😂

You inspired me to carry this one today.

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I hear that a great deal, just can't keep them all and one way of getting something new is to sell, usually at a loss but I rationalize that as a 'Rental Fee' .

To answer your question as to keeping this one, I am not sure right now, the handle is smaller than I had envisioned, so she might end up in the for sale section, and now with the slip sheath that adds a little to it as well...

And your knife looks pretty nice too. If there were a store closer, well I'd be in a LOT of trouble probably :), but it would be nice to be able to handle in person before buying, ....probably...;)

I miss my Chambriards the most and now the place that carried them has long since closed shoppe...

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Gary W. Graley said:
Thanks, I only recently learned how to do the two needle saddle stitch which works great on softer leather like this, before I used the Awl-n-Awl and it would bunch up the leather so I hated making softer leather sheaths, but now, I like it a great deal.

As to that knife,

Here's a video I just made with it, blade steel is in 14C28N that I just sharpened up yesterday,


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edited to add this video that shows how I remove folders from the slip sheaths when they do not have a lanyard, basically you wriggle the leather back and forth while applying pressure to the bottom of the knife, squeezing it forward much like a tube of toothpaste, until the end of the knife presents itself and you can then pull it out the rest of the way.

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I shall watch those later,thank you.
 
That looks very useful indeed! thanks for sharing sir,
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