didn't see an introductions section on the forum... didn't initially think there was much of a reason to do an intro type thread but now that i've thought of it... may as well... i've always been interested in old stuff, and fixing stuff (even when i didn't know how) and of course... knives... i'm a maintenance man at a large welding shop where i started out as a welder... so again i fix stuff, especially metal stuff... i'm usually the go-to guy for building something off the wall to fix something... or a new construction type thing...
i got this ka-bar knife when i was 13, the blade was all rusted up and the leather handle was rotted away
i replaced the handle with a piece of elk horn, tried my hand at filing some serrations into the blade, and tried to put a saw end into the back of the blade... i ended up using a jigsaw blade epoxied into the blade (rather crudely i know but it's held up all these years... used it last year to split the briskit on my dad's last elk...
this is the old timer i bought off of a 20 something year old kid earlier this year...
when i got it you couldn't even see where the bevel ended on the blade... it looked like someone had run over the blade from the edge across the blade with a dremel... gouged the crud out of the blade... still has some marks in it... but if i take much more out of it i'll be thinning the blade more than i care to... original stamp in the blade is completely gone now... show's how far it was ground into... soo sad!... but it makes a good work knife to carry into the woods... i've done repair work to the handles of several other knives and whatnot... but i've never flat out made a knife from nothing... so that's my next step... thanks for looking
i got this ka-bar knife when i was 13, the blade was all rusted up and the leather handle was rotted away
i replaced the handle with a piece of elk horn, tried my hand at filing some serrations into the blade, and tried to put a saw end into the back of the blade... i ended up using a jigsaw blade epoxied into the blade (rather crudely i know but it's held up all these years... used it last year to split the briskit on my dad's last elk...
this is the old timer i bought off of a 20 something year old kid earlier this year...
when i got it you couldn't even see where the bevel ended on the blade... it looked like someone had run over the blade from the edge across the blade with a dremel... gouged the crud out of the blade... still has some marks in it... but if i take much more out of it i'll be thinning the blade more than i care to... original stamp in the blade is completely gone now... show's how far it was ground into... soo sad!... but it makes a good work knife to carry into the woods... i've done repair work to the handles of several other knives and whatnot... but i've never flat out made a knife from nothing... so that's my next step... thanks for looking
