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I certainly was in a position to disagree emphatically with Dr. Livingstone’s theory, based on his own personal experience, that the resulting shock from the bite of a large carnivorous animal so numbs the nerves that it deadens all the pain; for, in my own case, I was conscious of great...

Fortune is apt to act freakishly at all times, and it may seem a strange thing to suggest that it was fortunate for myself that I happened to fall almost on top of the second lion as he was running around in front of my horse, to get hold of it by the head. Had I fallen otherwise, however, it...

Most of the herbage had been recently burnt off, here and there a patch of long grass remained. While riding through one of these isolated patches I heard two animals jump up in the grass in front of me. It was by now too dark to see, but I imagined that the animals in question were a pair of...

This, the story of Harry Wollhurter - and his famous knife! I have his book in my collection (Memories of a game ranger - - Harry Wolhurter - published in 1948) when I was a young kid, My grandfather read this story to me,everything in the story happened within a 100 miles of where I was born...

Here you go Jason.

And the new design knives for myself. The slaughterman with stainless 3 pin copper bolster and ebony handles with cpper pins on the 1084 blade. The slicer is for when I have broken down an animal and want to dice the boned out meat. It has 3 brass pins in the copper bolster with copper pins in...

Have some leatherwork ahead of me to get sheaths doen for this lot finished today. A Light Hunter (1084) and a Lion knife (1095) with giraffe bone fixed with stainless pins. An order for some Safari knives with giraffe bone on 1095 with titabium pins. There is another one to finish shaping the...

Thanks Ted. There is a marble like visual to this wood

A quick video but will do a full pic spread when I get the sheath done

Giday and welcome tothe KD forums Goblin

Green for me on the board backed strop.

Nice composition but the butt end of the handle is loosing definition

Havent had to do so yet Chris

It is hard to get a good pic but with carefull touch and go on the grinder it comes in very close even if the shadows do not show it as close as it is. From here it is marked and draw filed "round the curve" by only taking off the thickness of the pen mark at any one stroke. After a couple of...

Back in the shed this morning I got the hydrochloric acid heated and etched Henry's blade. With that taken care of the bolsters were pined and epoxied in place, which allowed the handle scales to be cut to a more convenient size The knife is placed on the scale and a scribe marks the top and...

I had a road trip the other day and delivered the presentation knife and 1911 grip box sets along with another 8 knives so it was a pleasing day even if it was a long one with over a 1000 mile on the truck by the time I got home. Shane, the owner of the gunshop is ex military and has some...

Wonderful example of the knifemakers art John.

The tooling shown is all that I use to do the bolsters but fitting the front of the handle to the curve sometimes requires the use of a file to finish the fit. As far as pin size goes the 3/32 pi s I use in the bolsters is more than sufficient for the job. I don't use anythi g bigger than an 1/8...