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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Hunting Knives Made In A Stone Carving Shop

 These are two hunting knives I made in my grandpa's stone carving shop while we were at my grandparent's house in southwest Missouri a couple months ago.  Both knives are hollow-ground and made from 440-C surgical stainless steel.  The wood on the knife to the left is pressure-treated cocobolo, and the one on the bottom right is pressure-treated oak.  I used 1/4" mosaic pins and did vine pattern file-work on both knives.  I also put 1/4" stainless steel tubing in the back of each knife.  The sheaths are made from treated leather that I purchased at a leather shop in Custer, South Dakota.  I hand-stitched both of them and formed them to each knife after soaking the sheaths in water for 20-30 minutes.  All the supplies for these knives including the blade blanks, wood, and pins, I purchased from Jantz Supply in Oklahoma.  My knifemaking teacher, Tom McGinnis softened and hardened the blades for me at his shop in Ozark, MO. 

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