Patch knife recommendations?

[2172]

The laminated little blade knives work great. I have one that cost me $1 in 1958...(they threw in a red plastic sheath) I bought it 'cause I'd carelessly lost a couple of good sheath knives, and figured I wouldn't care if this one went...wrong! It's been in a leather sheath with me for the past 46 years....
Mine says it was made my Johnson broderna, Mora Sweden...
I've made patch knifes out of Green River blades, and used
short ribs of beef bones, cleaned and bleached for the handle...look pretty crude, but work. I've done about a half dozen using straight razor blades. I've tried to get the old razors, with carbon steel blades. At first, a broken or cracked handle one would go for about $3, today they seem to be in the $15 range....I guess they've become collectable....I cut a slot in a piece of antler on a jig saw, and epoxy the blade in. when the epoxy shrinks in on drying, I fill the depression with beeswax...looks a little more authentic than the epoxy....
I have no important tip, except that most tangs are bigger than they need to be, and cutting the tang to make a good fit works...Hank

 

[2172]

just re-read my post, and realized I hadn't added something I meant to: at the last Asheville, NC gunshow, one of the guys selling knives and such had a display of straight razors, new, at $3 a piece....modern chrome-looking steel and plastic handles not suitable for a re-enactor's kit, but the one I bought made a good patch knife and was snapped up from the blanket at the last blanket shoot...maybe these el cheapo's are at other gun shows...Hank

 

[cayugad]

If you ever get near a mill or metal cutting place, ask them if they have any of the old bandsaw 1 and a half inch wide blade laying around they don't want (They usually have rolls of the stuff in the back rooms). You can torch or cut off a hunk of that. It will sharpen and hold an edge. Then I took a piece of walnut, cut a slot in it with the table saw, put the old hacksaw knife blade in there and pop rivited it together. Then you can shape the wood handle and the blade to fit. You can make the knife any length you like or shape. For the sheath, take some elk or cow leather and make the sheath. Works great.

If you want one for the target range, get yourself a roofer knife. Some call them a utility knife. The blade will slide back into the handle and when it gets dull, change the blade. You can also gut a deer with it... :haha: Wonder how I knew that little fact...

These are some Green River Knives I made and the sheaths..

 

[Slowpoke]

I got one from track of the wolf and really like it.

Slowpoke

Track of the Wolf's Small Patch Knife <----- Click Here

 

This old putty knife is made out of steel just about as hard as hacksaw blades. About five minutes worked on the grinder and another couple minutes with a sharpening steel and you're ready to shave, uses as a patch knife or whatever. And it even comes with a handle.

 

[Huntinfool]

Hey Fellows,

I like to use my knife to drive the ball in flush with the end of the muzzle. Then use it to cut the patch at the muzzle! I used to carry on strap like in pic but now because of finger woven strap I carry on the back of bag!

Keep Yer Powder Dry Fellers,
Chuck

 

[JesseJames]

I ordered the patch knife from TOTW,but are on backorder. How long does it take once it is shipped?

 

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

Here is the slickest little patch knife I've ever owned - I won it at a shoot and highly recommend them. Easy to hold, flat flexable blade made of carbon steel that can be kept SHARP!

You can get them here for about $8.75...

http://www.frontieramericatrading.com/FP0116Russell%20Green%20River.htm

 

[LRB]

Just my opinion, but I think if you are going to carry a patch knife it should be of a design that has more than a single purpose. One blade i know of that covers this well is the Russell Green River ripper blade. This blade is an excellent patch knife and has few peers as far as skinning and working a deer, or doing small knife chores.

 

I picked up this knife Sunday. My original plan was to pick up the Damascus bladed, antlers handled patch knife at Cabela's but while I was at a knife counter I saw this one. The blade is a little heavier than you might want for a patch knife but it's tough enough to rip through the breastbone or the pelvic bone on a deer.

 

[sse]

dog - That looks like a nice all around hunting knife. :winking:

 

[JesseJames]

I order that patch knife from TOTW on the 4th of April havn't recieved it yet. It looks like a sweet little knife. They must be selling alot of them.

 

[cptleo1]

Case knives makes a folder with a strait razor type blade

they even have one with damascus blade

 

[musketman]

I think a straight razor would make a handy patch knife, how far back in time do they go?

 

[Claude Mathis]

I think a straight razor would make a handy patch knife, how far back in time do they go?

It looks like about 1680...

330-63 -- Roman emperor Julian grows a beard to contrast his pagan beliefs with those of clean-shaven Christian leaders.

1163 -- A papal decree forbids monks to practice bloodletting, a medical treatment; barbers get the job.

1508-12 -- Michaelangelo paints a bearded God and a clean-shaven Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

1541 -- After reinstating the beard as a fashion statement, Henry VIII allows barbers and surgeons to form a joint guild; barbers can engage in bloodletting, but surgeons are forbidden to shave people.

1610 -- France's Louis XIII, going bald, popularizes powdered wigs and the clean-shaven countenance, which holds up for two centuries.

1680 -- The narrow-bladed folding straight razor, a boon for shavers, appears.

1750s -- The shaving brush is invented in France.

1776 -- Declaration of Independence signers are clean-shaven.

1847 -- William Henson of London puts a handle perpendicular to a razor blade, creating the first "hoe-type" razor.

1858 -- Uncle Sam gets chin whiskers (but the most popular rendition of him is in a World War I recruiting poster).

1860 -- Newly elected president Abraham Lincoln grows a beard.

1861 -- Union army Gen. Ambrose Burnside gives us "burnsides," later called "sideburns."

1863 -- Political cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly draws Santa Claus with a full white beard, establishing the standard.

1880 -- Brothers Otto and Frederick Kampfe get U.S. patent for the first safety razor.

1895 -- A fellow named King C. Gillette invents the disposable razor blade.

1917 -- The U.S. Army equips soldiers in World War I with Gillette safety razors to assure a good seal on a gas mask.

1920s -- Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini declares: "Whiskers are a sign of decadence."

1926 -- Burma-Shave shaving cream unveils its rhyming road signs.

1929 -- The electric razor appears.

 

Mine is similar to your's, a French Neck knife with another inch of blade length. Beautifully made and takes an incredible edge. AS they are all slightly different & hand made- they are actualy custom knives, and very low priced at $24.00 US.

: Mine fits in the sheeth on my bag's strap. :winking: