Small hunter from scrap material

[leafspring]

hi all,

I just completed a small hunter made from totally scrap/repurposed materials. All i bought on this knife was epoxy glue.
It is 3 3/4” blade, 7 3/4 OAL
Blade was a file. Handle was a tree limb from neighbor and cow bones from beef stock making with a piece of brass spacer from a brass pipe.
This is how it started

Blade was clay tempered and quenched in canola oil. The wood was stained with FC to get darker and looks walnuty then whiped with teak oil.

Hope you like it

 

[opaul]

Fantastic! I really like it, a lot! Got any more pictures you can share. How did you work the bone?

 

[Gliden07]

That is so cool!! That's what I love about this Hobby!! Repurposing stuff is king!! Awesome looking knife too!! Who but you (and all of us!! LOL!!) will ever know!!

 

[Smallshop]

Very classy looking!

 

[Doug Lester]

A very nice looking knife there. Great lines. I'm glad the file worked out for you; sometimes they won't

Doug

 

[webicons]

Get out of this sub-forum!

Seriously. That’s a sweet knife. Love the temper line.

 

[leafspring]

Fantastic! I really like it, a lot! Got any more pictures you can share. How did you work the bone?

Thanks...
Bone was boiled several times until no more fat left. Cut to slab and ground flat. That’s what i did.
I made few knives previously. All are from file.

 

[leafspring]

Get out of this sub-forum!

Seriously. That’s a sweet knife. Love the temper line.

Hamon wasn’t quite as i expected.
Clay lay out

But given the fact that clay mixture was just sticky dirt and fine sand, HT’ed with hand held torch, i am happy with it

 

[opaul]

You've mastered this technique! They are very fine, nice, functional looking blades.

 

[Smallshop]

Great eye for design...mad sketching skills...sees in 3d (by the look of the finished results in comparison to the sketches)...AND...clean leather work!...AND...takes quality pics with a cell phone....SIGH...lol.

Seriously...very nice work. That knife with the white red and green liner? Beautiful...just as simple as can be with great lines. All of them are nice though!

 

[Rick Otts]

You did one heck of a job very nice.Now with the cow bones wat did you do fill the holes with epoxy?

 

[Justin Presson]

Thise are some great looking knives!!