Elk handled Knife.......

[alscalls]

440C Stainless Sarge blade Severely modified, by Me, to make it a "Normal knife" Good skinner now......I never did like all the extra junk they put on knives these days like finger grooves, lanyard holes, serrated edges, ect.
So I made this one my own..... Book matched Elk tine for handles .......






Not sure what I am gonna do with this one yet.....

Comments welcome.........

[JohnP]

 That is a nice looking knife.  Put it up for auction and see what happens. 

[HaMeR]

Sure is a nice lookin knife Al. If you're not gonna use it yourself I agree with John. Or you can make it an LBL prize. 

[Hawks Feather]

Or you can make it an LBL prize. 

Well that one got a really big laugh out of me.  Heck of an idea there Glen.


Al,
It does look like a nice knife and one that you should be proud of.  I go back and forth on the finger grooves - some knives really fit nicely with them and others don't.  I just judge the knife by the way the handle feels in my hand and the type of blade that it has.  Did that start life as a Sarge SK-907?

Jerry

[alscalls]

Or you can make it an LBL prize. 

Well that one got a really big laugh out of me.  Heck of an idea there Glen.


Al,
It does look like a nice knife and one that you should be proud of.  I go back and forth on the finger grooves - some knives really fit nicely with them and others don't.  I just judge the knife by the way the handle feels in my hand and the type of blade that it has.  Did that start life as a Sarge SK-907?


Jerry

Nope...... That ones blade is shorter........  and only two pins actually go in that one the other hole is for a lanyard.

[Silencer]

I dont know Al, I sure as heck couldnt make something that nice.  I'm impressed, simple yet beautiful !!!

[alscalls]

Thanks fellas!

[John_NY]

Nice ife Al. Now get busy on that antler slingshot.

John

[Coulter]

Very Nice Al...I've always wanted to try making one myself. That turned out pretty sharp.

[slagmaker]

Nicley done Al.

may I ask what you used for the pins in the handel. Cant really tell in the pics. It looks like you have them counter sunk.

[alscalls]

Thanks fellas..

Slag, the pins are aluminum and thanks for noticing......they are countersunk   
I have always been a fabricator and I like to do things a little different at times.
Keeping all the pins at the surface ...........would cause me to loose the shape of the antler, so I opted to mushroom the heads inside a countersink........Not easy, but I do like the outcome.

[slagmaker]

That is an excellent touch. I never liked using Stag handels due to when ya sand them off flush they dont look right. Your counter bore idea looks great. Did you use a cupped tool to peen them over or just punch them flat?

[alscalls]

First I center drilled them a bit then punched them......to insure I would stay centered.....I used a hardened pin on the other side as I hit the punch on a jig I made.....the hardened pin goes all the way through the jig and is clamped on the other side so I can adj. the length.
I hardened the pin myself by making it from a piece of drill rod..... tapering the end......then I heated it up till the whole thing was glowing and dropped it in transmission fluid.

[pitw]

That is a fine looking knife Al and I'd be afraid of losing it .  If'n your ever going to make an Eknife let me know .

[Huntinfool]

That's a nice Ka-Nife Al! What did you ever do with it?


~HF~

[alscalls]

Its still laying here...........I have had a couple of friends try to buy it but I would not even know what to ask for it.......I thought of a couple things I could do with it.......just not sure yet.

[Huntinfool]

I was going to say I have a Ka-nife fettish too. But really considering my gun collection and my GROWING call collection among other things. I'd have to say I have an outdoors equipment fettish! LOL!     

~HF~