Elk Scalber/Skinner

[tonybones]

Small skinning/scalping knife from the same hoe blade I used to make Little B*tch. Working on the sheath right now, will have them both up together soon.

Bones

 

[Moose Guide]

Now that is a nice looking knife! Forged or SR?

 

[roger fisher]

Nice lookin knife. Cant wait to see the sheath. :thumbsup:

 

[chance]

Really Nice!!

 

[Rick Son]

How do you make the anler look like that?Looks as if it been there for a hundred years!

 

[tonybones]

War Hawk, that is cut from a common garden hoe. I did a little drive-way metallurgy, the edge is soft enough to sharpen easily and hard enough to hold an edge. It's not as big as it looks, wish I had another piece of elk like that handle. Thanks for you comments :thumbsup:

Bones

 

[tonybones]

Thanks Fisher. Tell you a story about the sheath: I got a raw elk skin from Lars Eidenes with the hair on it, rather thick. I cut the sheath and sewed it with gut and sinew, then thought I'd give it a rubdown with bear fat. I was having a movie marathon that day(Jeremiah Johnson, Last Of The Mohicans, The Burrowers(a horror western with Clancy Brown) and the extended version of Dances With Wolves). I rubbed and watched and rubbed and watched and rubbed and watched, wasn't paying much attention, and practically tanned the durn thing(I know the procedure for brain tanning, never done it). I'll have a picture up soon of both knife and sheath. Basic half round with belt loop.

Bones

 

[tonybones]

Thanks Chance! Many folks self medicate to get through life, you're looking at my heroin.

Bones

 

[tonybones]

Chief, Moscow Hide & Furs sell 1st, 2nd, and 3rd "quality" antler. I usually buy 2nd and 3rd. This one had been outside for a year or two and was covered in a solid white crust. I cut the length I wanted and buffed the daylight out of it with steel wool. I put on a couple coats of Birchwood Casey walnut wood stain, and took 400 grit to knock down the high spots. Once that was done I went over all of it with Tandy Leather "Bucksin" color leather dye. Gives it that yellow "age". I held it over a stove burner for a few seconds here and there, that settled the dye's hash, it's in that elk for eternity. I buffed it lightly with 0000 steel wool, I hit it with a little bear grease once and a while. One thing didn't show in the photo is the small cap on the butt that's black buffalo horn, there are 4 brass nails set into the end. I got antler and bones "aging" down to a science, like I told Chance, this is my heroin.

Bones

 

[Moose Guide]

I have a whole shed full of elk antler, wish you lived closer so we could share!!!

 

[tonybones]

So do I my friend.

Bones