New Knife

I once discovered by accident that ammonia turns chestnut wood to a nice dark chestnut, almost purple. I’ve used it to stain chestnut. Think it could work on leather too. If there wasn’t much oil on it already. Incase someone wants to keep a project all natural.

Tenn,
I guess I am a knife guy. Also a tomahawk guy, a rifle guy, a pistol guy, and so on. Always have found that some tools work better and suit me better than others, and tried to get the ones that worked best for me.

Any good knife is a useful tool in the right hands. I have several Decent hunting knives I use for different purposes. One is a 6" schrade which has served me really well for many years now. I cut a lot of Blue jean patchs with it and keep it razor sharp at all times

Tanglefoot said:

Tenn,
I guess I am a knife guy. Also a tomahawk guy, a rifle guy, a pistol guy, and so on. Always have found that some tools work better and suit me better than others, and tried to get the ones that worked best for me.

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Yup, I like my stuff, what I met was that for all my looking at historic knifes I have zero ability to date them. Although big things like rivits stand outs don’t some modren shapes old knifes kinda all blend together. When some one says X knife isn’t HC I have a hard time seeing what makes it wrong

Well, that shines! I couldn't either until I studied on it some. Most of my gear is plain as a mud fence. I started out poor and still haven't gotten to "rich" except in friends and experience, so my knives are mostly chosen for the quality of steel and my shootin' irons for their tendency to hit the mark in spite of me. For plenty seasons, my old .50 caliber Leman was called "Mud Gun" by others who will go unnamed but couldn't out-shoot her. I call her "Lucretia,"
or "Lucy" for short. Huntschool knows her well, and he built her big sister "Rebecca" for me. Rebecca's a .54 Hawken, also plain, iron mounted, shoots center. Enough said.

great looking knife!

That is one seriously nice lookin' knife!

Del Gue said:

That is one seriously nice lookin' knife!

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It is a nice knife … wish I had it. But Del Gue, I love your 'name,' is the source by any chance a movie we've both seen?