yet another homemade knife.
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Rustyiron
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That's a nice little sknner! Do you buy your blades or scroung like some of my buddies do (old sawmill blades etc.) The time and craftsmanship in a nice knife/sheath can easily go unseen by most folks. I had one buddy that was way into tempuring his knives, I've never seen him do it , but he said that a good knife can be put in a vice, bent 90* without breaking and return back yet still be hard enough to hold an edge! They all knew Bill Moran, a pretty well known bladesmith in MD. Good job.
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We would take tool steel scrap at work with the permission of the Boss and make knives and scrapers... some of the guys got really creative and turned out some nice pieces.
Grumpy Old Man
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as a kid we would use old car leaf springs and a bench grinder to make machetes and woods knives also log scrapers to remove the bark
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ncnurseryman
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Thanks rustyiron for the compliment. I use 1095 stock that I order from jantz and cut out and grind out the shape.