Recycled Paring Knife

[jbullard1]

After all the birthday celebrators had left yesterday afternoon I was helping my wife clean up and ran across and old paring knife that belonged to my grandmother. The blade had been worn, filed and ground away over the years and an idea came to me "Patch Knife". I used a tiny whitetail shed antler, Filed, ground and reshaped the blade and installed the antler handle. Nothing fancy but I like it.

Here it is after the handle is pinned and after a little use

I've got to make a sheath for it and will use and old leather welders glove for the material

 

[BadHeart]

Nice looking knife, my sons patch knife is an old old hickery paring knife. Still ahve to make a new handle for it.

 

That's pretty neat. You could just cut a little finger off the glove and it would probably fit just fine. :hmm:

 

[mingo]

Very nice. Good old American "tendency to tinker" at work.

 

[GreyWhiskers]

I like it! Got a couple antlers just waitin fer the right blades. Hope they look as good as yers. :thumbsup: GW

 

[tom hargrove]

great nothing like makeing something of your own. :thumbsup:

 

[laffingman67]

Great little knife. Very utilitarian! :hatsoff:

 

Cool! Old paring knives make very good all-around outdoor knives. I read an article several years ago by professional taxidermists and several of them used common paring knives to field dress and cape game animals such as deer, etc...they make excellent little bag knives...

 

[bucktales]

Nice Knife! :thumbsup:
Mike , I heard the same. I can see why, I have a bunch of Solingen made paring knives in the drawer, easy to work with and hold an edge.

 

[rabjr]

That'll work, nice. :thumbsup:

 

[PitchyPine]

Cool, very nice. :thumbsup:

 

[fw707]

Very nice, Mr. Jerry! :hatsoff: