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A small patch knife


VaughnT

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Made this one a few years ago.  The blade's 1084, I believe, and just under an eighth of an inch thick.  A bit thin for general purpose use, but I was going for a primitive 'poor boy' style for a patch knife to go with my flintlock.  

 

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About 3.5" of cutting edge with a short, 4" or so handle.  A tad narrow right at the junction, but fully capable of skinning a deer or cutting a patch.

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Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen.  

 

Dave, the wrap is deerskin rawhide I made some time ago.  Very thin stuff and it really conforms well to the texture of the antler.  I use a wrapping of gutted 550 cord over the rawhide to really mush it into the nooks and crannies, and it leaves something of a ridged texture once you remove it.  The rawhide is, in my opinion, a great way to finish off the end of the antler on a primitive knife like this.  It lends strength to the thinned antler and hides any flaws you might have from fitting the blade.

 

In the case of this knife, there wasn't much tang because my drill bit broke off halfway down in the hole.  It took some seriously creative shaping of the half-tang to get around that (and a lot of cussing).  Between that and the general lack of size of the antler, I thought a good rawhide wrapping wouldn't hurt.  Of course, it's also sewn up with real sinew for the thread.

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