Thanks Jonathan, messerist and Randy.. Ticks have been real bad this year around here too. As bad as I can remember.
I was planning on wrapping the whole handle with the turtle skin but I thought the poplar looked kind of nice with a little of the inner bark layer left on. I still have enough...
Have not made the time to mess with the forge in a while but I got out yesterday and made this one out of an old file. I guess I would call it a leuku or scalper. Handle is a piece of poplar, tang burned through, epoxied and one brass pin. Little bit of snapping turtle skin around the handle...
That looks great. Honestly, that looks like a very comfy handle as is and would be just to my taste in its "raw" unwrapped state but I am sure a wrap would help prevent hand shock when chopping.
Real nice lines. I like that one a lot.
Trade bead smuggling? what do they call that....Keestering?
Your customers have a right to know if any of the trade beads on their knife sheaths have been up your....:nothing:
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