Posted: 12/19/2012 8:58:09 PM EDT
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Decided that since I had all the Christmas knives made now I would make one for myself.
Well, It's done! Well pretty near anyway. Little more polish etc. Here it is. I really like it. 
I found out that once you start sanding into elk antlers that there is black stuff inside that doesn't look very good. So I decided to stain it back with some dark Walnut stain. No dice, the wood hardener that I used to stabilize the horn sealed it so well it wouldn't take a stain. So I decided to try a propane torch and that worked pretty good. It brought it back to a much better color and gave it the look I wanted, I might hit it one more time to get a little darker in spots. This is my favorite so far of the knives I have made and I will be keeping this one. What do you think? Ricky |
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Nice! I really like the blade shape. What steel did you use? Thanks, This one is 1095 HC steel. The blade shape came to me as I was filing another knife. I looked over and saw a piece of 1095 and a guard setting on the edge of my desk and a light bulb went on. I stopped what I was doing and traced it out and went straight out to cut it out and start the knife. It came out exactly as I saw in my head, which is why I like this one so much. |
