Two knives from a $5 OH Butcher blem

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For $5 you can get a 12" Old Hickory Butcher knife second. I got three. From those knives I planned to get a few nessies, but after cutting out the nessie, the tip area of the blade was just too cool to not make into a knife. I don't know what you'd call it. A patch knife maybe, an adirondak, I dunno? But it sure is cool, and literally took me less than two hours to make. Once you cut the shape of the handle on the bandsaw, you just saw into the handle. The blade is roughly the thickness of a bandsaw blade.
 

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Please. Heck no. Not even taking orders for sheaths right now. May be good gift ideas though.....

Edited to say, thanks John. I appreciate it, but Sarge is right. Hobbies rule, orders suck to fill.
 
I dunno. I mean, you'd have to find a particular market, but those particular orders might not suck to fill.
 
aproy1101 said:
I dunno. I mean, you'd have to find a particular market, but those particular orders might not suck to fill.
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I'd expect that the first 5 or 6 wouldn't suck to fill. I'd probably find, though, that the 105th or 106th were a real pain in the butt. I like making new things, rather than replicating things I've already made.
 
Yep. Turning yourself into a factory is no fun.
 
Ya know that front section could be trimmed down to make a durn nice skien dhub.

good work again Andy!
 
aproy1101 said:
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Maybe don't take orders and become a factory, but maybe offer your stuff up for sale. I've been trying to strike this balance with my whittling and carving. Limited success so far. People do tend to want something exactly like another one you did, or something you have no desire to do.
 
I hadn't thought of a skein dhu. Cool. Thats what I love about this place.
 
Bobwhite said:
Maybe don't take orders and become a factory, but maybe offer your stuff up for sale. ....
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Me? I've been a semi-pro musician for a couple of decades, along with my "real life" work. I've ended up deciding to do music for benefit concerts, for wedding gifts, but no longer for cash. I spent too much time with professional musicians who'd lost the joy of it, and only took out their instruments when dollars were involved. Not for me.

FWIW, folks don't really realize, often, the value of a gift given that way - think what that lovely Nessmuk would sell for, or one of Sarge's boucherons. That's just fine - you know what your gift's worth. When I stopped singing at weddings for money, my rate was $200/per ... and my teaching rates were $35/hr. It's a lot more fun now. And it's good to know that a well paying skill's there, if it's ever needed.
 
Well I completed the rig this weekend by adding a little pancake sheath with a boot clip. And I convexed that edge a little better too. In the pics of the back, notice the pin that was drilled a little wonky.

With its super thin blade, this one is a cutter from hell. Fun stuff. Maybe my favorite knife I've done.

Improvement goals: pin layout redone with a better sheppards cross, straight drill holes, rounder transition from handle to blade on the blade.

What do you guys think?
 

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Thanks Steve. This one cuts like a bear. I can't wait to redo it with all the lessons I learned on this one. Its so easy. Really guys. Just pick a chunk of wood and bandsaw a kerf for the tang. The epoxy greases it as it slides into place. Once its dry you just drill and pin then sand to shape. Fun and easy and lemme tell ya. What a cutter!
 
Pinwork bedamned. Thats a fine little skinner. Slip into a boot like you said or a back pocket without the clip.

I never heard of the Shepherd's cross . Is that a pinning technique or a Religious preference of Shepherders?
 
I stole that from my Laguioles, and I'm sure Sarge can tell us more. Sarge, any history on shepards cross? In the pamphlet it says that the shepards couldn't get away for church, so they'd stab their knives into the ground, kneel, and pray. Me, I just really think it looks neato. I'm going to keep using it. There is a rustic quality it adds to a knife.
 
Rustic and it prettys them up.

I've been nipping the tops off of too long blades to make smallgame broadheads. Looks like I should get around to not being so lazy about the rest of the blades.
 
Hell yes, or, send your scraps and cutoffs to me.
 
Well done!

Come Mattins time, I'd recommend stabbing it into a log or horizontal limb rather than the dirt though.
 
That is a neat story about the shepherds cross. I enjoy learning of the simple rituals performed by country folk. I think that the humanity this shows demonstrates a sophistication that many intellects lack.

You know? Now that I am looking for it I won,t see a cross like that again.
Sometimes the memory of something is better than the having. Where did you come across the practice?
 
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