1700s folding knife

[oldsarge]

My first attempt at a 16th century folding knife. I made it with a deer antler, grass sheer blade, and a nail.

The makins.

 

[skunkskinner]

Looks good. :bow:

 

[SgtSchutzen]

Pretty slick :thumbsup:

 

[Claude Mathis]

Great job! :thumbsup:

 

[rabjr]

Very nice! :thumbsup:

 

[davy]

I like simple .. nice! :thumbsup:

Davy

 

[Hawken Dan]

WOW, really nice. :thumbsup:

Is there a way to keep the blade from closing once out? Or is your hand supposed to :yakyak:


Hawken Dan

 

[PitchyPine]

Cool, nice job. :thumbsup:

 

[RC]

:grin: ya dun good! real good!! :thumbsup: pretty cool! :hatsoff:

 

[mazo kid]

That's looking real good and I like the way you used common or recycled items! Emery

 

[blacksmithman64]

Dumb question but did you slice the antler with what appears to be that saw? :shocked2: I've wasted a lot of antlers trying that! :rotf: yer gonna go make me ruin another one!
DOH! Thats the shear!!! How DID you cut that slot in the antler??

 

[oldsarge]

Dumb question but did you slice the antler with what appears to be that saw? I've wasted a lot of antlers trying that! yer gonna go make me ruin another one!
DOH! Thats the shear!!! How DID you cut that slot in the antler??

I cut the antler in half on my band saw then I lined up the knife blade along the edge of the antler and marked it with a pencil where I wanted it to close. Next I cut a slot for the blade into the first 3/4 inch of the antler with the band saw. Then I drilled the pin hole, mounted the blade and slowly took away antler where the blade came into contact with it using lamp black, a dremel tool and an 1/8" chisel.

Thanks everybody for the nice comments. :grin:

 

[blacksmithman64]

Just so happens that Santy Claws done brought me a Brand New Bandsaw! :haha:

 

[Charles D. Prokopp]

That's very nice work, indeed. Really captured the look of those primitive folders. Being something of a Luddite and a Neo-Tribal Metalsmith, I've always done those the hard way...by hand, without power tools. Not fun after a few hours of smelling antler scrapings! Maybe I should actually use my band saw...

 

[romeoh]

Wow! :shocked2:
Well done! :thumbsup:

 

[Trkdriver99]

I sure would like to make one of those. Maybe some one would make us a online class for making them....hint hint hint..

Ronnie

 

[skunkskinner]

I sure would like to make one of those. Maybe some one would make us a online class for making them....hint hint hint..

Ronnie

In the last photo it looks like oldsarge has the supplys for one more. :grin:

 

[shmrck1]

oldsarge,
Nice job! :applause:
snake-eyes :bow:

 

[oldsarge]

Well now I suppose I could do something like that, is there an example of an "online class" in here that I could use as a template or would I have to make one up?

 

[Claude Mathis]

Well now I suppose I could do something like that, is there an example of an "online class" in here that I could use as a template or would I have to make one up?

I put these pages together using the text and photos that Mike Brooks sent me.
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/tutorials/brooks/Brooks1.html