Patch knife and shooting pouch.

[Joe Yanta]

Latest project has been a patch knife and matching shooting pouch.

The pouch is made from a single piece of leather. The three piece strap is made from scraps of the same leather. Forged buckle browned using Plum Brown. The pouch was then distressed using the popular oven cleaner aging technique. The pouch measures 7 1/4" wide and 7" deep.

The blade is 3 1/4" long and is forged from 3/32" 1095. I used a different turn on this knife. I used the crown of the small antler as the guard or hilt instead of the normal way of using the crown for the pommel end of the knife.

Total length of the knife is is 8 1/2 inches. Surprizingly the knife is very comfortable. The first 3 fingers in front of the drop tine with the little finger behind and your thumb on the crown.

The sheath is actually made from very old leather. I would say 100 years old. I am always scrounging for old leather in antique stores and thrift shops.

I've tried making several pouches. I dont think it is my forte. Maybe I should just stick with tinking with knives.

None the less. As always your comments, tips for improvement and opinions would be most appreciated.
:hatsoff:

Thanks

Joe

 

[rabjr]

Nice. :thumbsup:

 

[RickD]

looks good to me

 

[davy]

Very nice Joe! I like it! :thumbsup:

Davy

 

[mazo kid]

I really like the way you did the knife; nice work on both items! :thumbsup:

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Joe,

Very nice look to both the bag and knife. :thumbsup: The bag is antiqued to perfection. Looks like it could be out of somebody's collection. GW

 

Joe,

Nice work :thumbsup: (as usual)

that looks like it could be in my collection :grin:
:v

 

[JamesG]

Great job on the knife i never thought of useing the knob to attack the blade.

 

[David G]

Nice job on both items. :thumbsup:

 

[Bountyhunter]

I sure like the way you did that antler handle. I have made a lot of knives but hadnt thought of turning it around like that. Good job.

 

[Joe Yanta]

Gents thanks much for your comments, I really appreciate them.

Here are a couple of macro pics on the how I attached the blade to the handle.

I suppose you could call this a duplex tang being a partial full width half tang with a hidden small rat tailed tang.

This handle came from a very small set of antlers. It was intact with the skull plate. I was able to extend the antler into a usable handle by as much as 1 1/4" by using as much of skull bone as possible. The two iron pins you see in the first picture are going through the surface of the inside of the skull cavity.

After cutting the slot for the blade I drilled a 3/32 hole about 3/4" further past the crown into the antler for the rat tail portion of the hidden tang. Two 1/8" holes were drilled through the bone portion and blade for rivets. After heat treating I placed the blade in padded vise and gently drove the handle onto the blade with small mallet. I then set the blade permanently with two iron 1/8" rivets made from iron rod. The blade is ferociously tight in the antler handle.

Actually it is very comfortable in the hand and light weight.

Joe :thumbsup:

 

[Nifeman]

Hey Joe, ya know I wouldn't kid ya :bow: . They both look great to me....Bud