What's your latest Schrade? END DATE 8/12

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Dale,
Great work on that sharpfinger! That mammoth ivory looks awesome against that damascus blade!

Here are my latest. I've been looking for one of these barlows for a while now. The other is an old well used, but still good, Schrade Walden 891 stockman with a punch.

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orvet said:
Well, this is not a Schrade, but is Schrade inspired.

This is a 5-1/8" Firestorm Damascus blank made by Grand Leavitt of Idaho.
The steel is 1095 & 15N20 with a Rockwell hardness of 56-57 on the C scale.

I put mammoth fossil ivory on the handles with mosaic pins.
I like it. I think I will do another full size one.

I hope you like it,
Dale
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Dale said it best! Elephant ivory is nice, but good pieces of it in substantial size is difficult to find (legally). And in the past few decades an amazing amount of preserved mammoth ivory has been found in Alaska, Canada and Russia (Siberia). I still have some I bought years ago for a custom knife handle, but never got around to having a talented maker like Dale mount them for me. My slabs are made from the outer layer (called "bark") ivory which has been stained by the minerals of the soil in which it was found. Dale's, while he doesn't specify, appears to be the beautiful creamy interior ivory.
 
Codger_64 said:
Dale said it best! Elephant ivory is nice, but good pieces of it in substantial size is difficult to find (legally). And in the past few decades an amazing amount of preserved mammoth ivory has been found in Alaska, Canada and Russia (Siberia). I still have some I bought years ago for a custom knife handle, but never got around to having a talented maker like Dale mount them for me. My slabs are made from the outer layer (called "bark") ivory which has been stained by the minerals of the soil in which it was found. Dale's, while he doesn't specify, appears to be the beautiful creamy interior ivory.
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That is correct Michael, it is interior ivory. I got several pieces from the same source. They had a strip of the bark on one edge, but unfortunately it was not enough to work with.

I do have a larger piece of interior that is about 6" X 2" X 1-1/2".
The interesting thing about it is that there is some staining length wise with the grain of the ivory where mineral laden water seeped through it and deposited its minerals in the ivory, leaving light brownish/purple stains in it.
I may use that piece on a full size Damascus Sharpfinger when I get a chance.

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Dale
 
Is your mammoth tusk ivory stabilized? I seem to recall that my slabs are.

I am very impressed by how your skills have improved over the years I have seen your work. It was good to begin with, IIRC. But you seem to be attempting (successfully) projects you wouldn't consider a few short years ago. :thumbup:
 
Well, I'm going outside my comfort zone with this one. I've always carried a stockman, but I got an itch for a trapper and decided on this one. Got it on a BIN for less than $30. It's gonna make a great user! Oh, the previous owner managed to loose the brass cap on the pick. They put a hard rubber cap on it, but I'd like to find/ make a replacement cap. Does anyone know how the original cap was put on? Thanks!

Chuck

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Codger_64 said:
Is your mammoth tusk ivory stabilized? I seem to recall that my slabs are.

I am very impressed by how your skills have improved over the years I have seen your work. It was good to begin with, IIRC. But you seem to be attempting (successfully) projects you wouldn't consider a few short years ago. :thumbup:
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Thank you Michael.

My ivory on that knife is not stabilized. It should color nicely with use.
I am not sure that this ivory would stabilize very well. It is very dense to begin with, so I doubt it would absorb a significant amount of the resin.

Thanks again,
Dale
 
just got this one, it is obviously a schrade walden knife but has no number on the blade. it measures: 3 3/8" closed, 5 3/4 fully open and 2 5/16 blade length. any ideas on what knife it is? has a really nice snap on closing and the handle looks like my hawkbill knife.
 

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delmas2nd said:
just got this one, it is obviously a schrade walden knife but has no number on the blade. it measures: 3 3/8" closed, 5 3/4 fully open and 2 5/16 blade length. any ideas on what knife it is? has a really nice snap on closing and the handle looks like my hawkbill knife.
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It is 175 grafting knife. Would not surprise me if it the tang stamp is N.Y. with no USA. Those were the transition stamps after Schrade Cut Co, and they often had no pattern number on the back of the tang. Nice clean example.
 
thank you so much for that. to make sure i know what a grafting knife is, that is like when you take a sapling cut and make another cut and put in a different type of sapling?
 
Nice find Delmas! Looks like it's in great shape, blade looks like it has the original edge. :thumbup::thumbup:

Eric
 
Great looking custom ivoryfinger Dale!
(but you already knew that.)

Dave, I like the Heritage blue box series too.
I already had all 3 colors of the 1983 barlow.
Then few weeks ago caught this one in the bay.
Has the Heritage bone, bolsters, and shield but has
an SC506 clip. Which gives the knife matching blade
surfaces and swedge on both sides w/no blade etch.
I like this 'hybrid' as much as the genuine H2661s .
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This one isn't a latest, but these are latest pics taken
after getting it better detailed. And it does help maintain
the barlow & punch theme.
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the edge had one small nick near the end which smoothed out quite rapidly and now the edge can shave the hair off my arm. it is a really tight little knife.

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Nice find Delmas! Looks like it's in great shape, blade looks like it has the original edge. :thumbup::thumbup:

Eric
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O.K. this just happened so an ebay link, not my own pics, but i think this one is neat and wanna show it now:
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neat eh ! blades may not all be right, but it's the frame i'm buying. this is the 'genetic ancestor' to the Schrade-I*XL Commemorative Stockman of 1980.
i have a few of these, some still NIB and with sheath, as well as a "Herman Williams Special", so having this ancestor, rounds out the group.
fun eh ?
roland
 
:thumbup:nice ,very nice roland. have looked at a lot of knives since oct '04 and have not seen that one before. thats a lot of knife, maybe thats why they named it for texas;)-----------brady
 
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