Skinning knives for me and my daughter

[scrub-buster]

Here are my latest knives.  They are #4 and #5 for me.  The first one is a small skinning knife for my daughter as a gift for killing her first deer.  I used an old USA made file for the steel.  After heat treating it I sanded it to 3000 grit.  She wanted purple and black scales.  I dyed some burlap and tried to make micarta.  It turned out OK but it had small air bubbles in it.  I don't think they will hurt anything but they still bother me.  The sheath is stingray skin.  










I finally made a knife for myself. The steel is from an old sawmill blade sanded to 3000 grit. The handle is osage burl that a friend gave to me. I was worried about the quality of the steel. I skinned a deer with it a few days ago and it was still razor sharp when I was done. It would shave a path up my arm. I'm glad it performed well. I have several more blades cut out and a big chunk of the saw blade left.  After I was done skinning the deer I didn't get around to cleaning the knife for an hour or two.  The blood on the blade left some patina.  I think it made it look better.  Somebody told me that was because the steel is high carbon/low chromium.  I don't know enough about knife material to know if that's true or not.  








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[Frenchymanny]

Beautiful!

F-Manny

[drewsbow]

very nice

[Steve Nuckels]

Nice work!

Cool little knives & sheaths

Steve
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Potomac Forge
Member, W.F. Moran Foundation
ABS Apprentice

[KSCATTRAPR]

Very cool. I love that Osage!