Bone knife
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Bone knife
Cut some slabs off s beef leg and tried making a knife, turned out ok.
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Man!! That's a beauty ! Good one Pitchy.
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Very nice, Pitchy! Thanks for the pictures.
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Thanks Grizz, that bone is some hard stuff now if i could only sharpen a knife
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Thanks Walt, now i`ll have to make a old looking Indian sheath for it.
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Re: Bone knife
I've always read about ivory letter openers in old victorian era novels.....seems that bovine bone is certainly more readily available than elephant/walrus teeth.
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Thanks Ray, yep can get a bone from a local butcher.
It`s a little wet inside yet should whiten up more later.
It`s a little wet inside yet should whiten up more later.
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Re: Bone knife
You taking scalps now Lenn Nice looking knife, I like the primitive style....
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Thanks John.
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Re: Bone knife
Kinda cool.
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Quote kinda cool....... I completely agree
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Re: Bone knife
Very crude, rudimentary.
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Re: Bone knife
I remember an Ernest Thompson Seton story using a bone knife to cut bait for particularly wary wolf.
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Lenn, I bet she gets tougher and better able to hold an edge with a little time.
Somewhere I read that different game animals have different bone densities in their lower legs, with antelope being among the toughest!
Somewhere I read that different game animals have different bone densities in their lower legs, with antelope being among the toughest!
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Thanks gents, Bill i think your right but my problem is i can`t sharpen any knife worth a hill of beans.
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Re: Bone knife
Very nice. Attached is a Gunstock Battle Axe that I made out of a piece of oak that I had, I need to get motivated to finish it but not 100% certain I want to put a steel blade on it just yet. The knife is from a friend that is a great flint napper but not much of a hunter. I gave him 3 moderate racks that I had laying around and in his gratitude he made me a hide scraper and this knife. The European Mount is from last years buck.
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When I have a knife that is hard to get an edge on, I get some sandpaper and wrap it tight around a 1x2 and use the sandpaper directly on the blade. I think I start with 220 and end up at 400.
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Nice and thanks those mounts are a lot of work, i did one once and mounted it on the front of the wood side car we made.horsesoldier03 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:06 pm Very nice. Attached is a Gunstock Battle Axe that I made out of a piece of oak that I had, I need to get motivated to finish it but not 100% certain I want to put a steel blade on it just yet. The knife is from a friend that is a great flint napper but not much of a hunter. I gave him 3 moderate racks that I had laying around and in his gratitude he made me a hide scraper and this knife. The European Mount is from last years buck.
Nice looking knife i`m thinking on making another in that shape with a antler handle, i have tried using sand paper and it does work good.
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After looking at a bunch of old Native American knives it looks like they carried knives that look like modern kitchen knives like these made by Old Forge company.
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Yepper Grizz, i`d like to make one of those beaded sheaths i need to make one for that knife you made me but i`m out of supplies for everything even iron.
I don`t go anywhere anymore so my building things has about come to a end.
I don`t go anywhere anymore so my building things has about come to a end.
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Re: Bone knife
You cant beat those old carbon steel blades (1095). They sharpen up pretty quick on a butcher steel. You probably still have at least one old circular saw blade laying around. They make excellent blades that will sharpen right up.
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I really like the stylr and utility of the old knives,got a few Old hickorys
You can sharpen any old knife with a spring steel blade with a Mill fine file or even a rock to a using edge.
Here are a few of mine
A 8 inch Old Hickory double edge throwing Knife,a 10 inch butcher knife and a Paring knife with a sheath I made for neck carry,good for odd Jobs around the house and cutting food at a restaurant.
a 14 inch butcher knife I keep in the side door of my truck that I use as a light machete
Closer pic of the wood sheath I make for the Butcher knives
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Pitchy's battle axe reminds of cooper's chingachgook character, you know, the next to last of the mohicans.
Those axes, often using sections of old rifle/musket stocks for handles with a skull knob on one side and a blade opposite, makes me think of another continent and henry haggard's zulu character umslopogaas and his weapon, nkosi-kaas ..... "a beautiful weapon, long light & slender, the haft fashioned from an enormous rhinoceros horn, flexible as cane, bound at intervals with brass wire & a knot at the end to prevent the hand from slipping.".......
"it was but rarely that (he) used the crashing doubled handed stroke: on the contrary, he did little more than tap continually at his adversaries head, pecking at it with the pole-axe end of the axe as a woodpecker pecks at rotten wood..."
Those axes, often using sections of old rifle/musket stocks for handles with a skull knob on one side and a blade opposite, makes me think of another continent and henry haggard's zulu character umslopogaas and his weapon, nkosi-kaas ..... "a beautiful weapon, long light & slender, the haft fashioned from an enormous rhinoceros horn, flexible as cane, bound at intervals with brass wire & a knot at the end to prevent the hand from slipping.".......
"it was but rarely that (he) used the crashing doubled handed stroke: on the contrary, he did little more than tap continually at his adversaries head, pecking at it with the pole-axe end of the axe as a woodpecker pecks at rotten wood..."
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Thanks for the pics of your knives bcraig i like your wood sheaths.
Ray that movie is where i got the idea, here`s the full size version.
A neck knife a guy made and gave me.
A knife i made from a sheep shears.
Ray that movie is where i got the idea, here`s the full size version.
A neck knife a guy made and gave me.
A knife i made from a sheep shears.
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Awesome work -- as always -- from our friend Pitchy!
The other tools & images are cool too!
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The other tools & images are cool too!
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Thanks buddy.
bcraig sparked my interest in a wood sheath so i`m making one for a butcher knife, should be done today.
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Got the wood sheath finished.
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Oh Man! it takes me days to get that far. and yes, I'm braggin' . . .
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And thanks for the pic’s of yours Pitchy
Nice work !
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It`s made of Oak Sir.
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Re: Bone knife
I am curious as to whether bone can be sharpened enough to cut like a knife, and if it can, how long will the edge last.
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Well Brad there are some variables as Bill mentioned like the type of bone used some are harder than others, i`m on a learning curve myself so can`t give much info about it.
I know those arrow heads i made from deer antler seem to sharpen up better, a search on the web on the subject would probably be helpful.
I know those arrow heads i made from deer antler seem to sharpen up better, a search on the web on the subject would probably be helpful.
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camel leg bones are a thing for knife scales, might be available online, IDK.Pitchy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2023 6:20 am Well Brad there are some variables as Bill mentioned like the type of bone used some are harder than others, i`m on a learning curve myself so can`t give much info about it.
I know those arrow heads i made from deer antler seem to sharpen up better, a search on the web on the subject would probably be helpful.
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Love that bone knife Pitchy! Very cool!
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Thanks pard.
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