New Patch Knife

[deanscamaro]

Finally found a good pattern for a patch knife. It is a skinner pattern, but it is of a great size for cutting patches. Had a small piece of scrap 1095 left from a bigger knife and found a use for it. It fits my hand right and the blade is just the right size. It is 6 1/2 inches overall and didn't take very long at all to finish. Useful tools can be made from scrap.

:grin:

 

[RC]

COOL! Great job! :thumbsup:

 

[chance]

I really like it!!

 

[MSW]

nice looking knife!

 

[fatboy]

I like that you did a nice job and you didnt waste any materials

 

[David G]

Nice, should make a dandy little patch knife!

 

[ohio ramrod]

Nice use of materials. The two things I miss most about retiring are the access to the machinery in the tool room. (third shift tool room was great)And the scrap pan under the cut off saw. ( The guys on day shift never emptied it and it was often filled with usefull tool steel).

 

[GreyWhiskers]

I'll bet it works well as a patch knife. :thumbsup: What type of wood for the slabs? GW

 

[deanscamaro]

I didn't retire from a valuable spot like that, but have had my workshop for years and am getting slower to go buy something and faster to find a solution in my own shop.
:thumbsup:

 

[deanscamaro]

That is from a 3/8" x 3" board of cypress that I had a picked up at a local hardwood supplier on the cheap. I just used some of that and oiled it. I plan on using more of it in the future; I like it.
:v

 

[fatboy]

Is that cypress pretty hard?

 

[deanscamaro]

Yeah, but not unreasonably so. It can still be worked okay.
:grin: