Trade knife set

Found some old tobacco stakes in my old barn from the 1800s.
Used them for knife handles.
Got the blades (solingen) from crazy crow.
Tried to make as rustic as I could.

 

[PitchyPine]

Look great bro. :thumbsup:

 

Thanks Pitchy. :thumbsup:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

those will work, looks good.

 

[tom hargrove]

i see nothing wrong with those :thumbsup:

 

[windwalker_au]

they look real good 82 airborne
bernie :hatsoff:

 

[JamesG]

nice good job on the set. :hatsoff:

 

Thanks for the kind words everyone.
First time at knife making.

 

[T.C.Albert]

Howdy...nice lookin set of knives.You know, I think those stakes are kinda rare and fetch a good price at the antique markets, at least up here anyway...saw a fellow selling them as genuine antique "tobacco stake- walking sticks" too...just varnished them and sold them for about $35 each.

I have relatives your way maybe, in the Boone Nat.Forest anyway...back in the mountains around Manchester/Barbourville...we saved back some nice hickory tobacco sticks from their big old tobacco barn as family hierlooms...have to admit it looks like they work up into nice knife handles though too...

T.C.Albert

 

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnntique. :shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2: :shocked2:
I think I wont be giving away any more sticks.
Ive got about 400 left.

Did you here about the guy in Scotland that found hundreds of cases of cigars in his cellar.
They were using them to start fires in the fireplace.
It turns out his great great grandfather had bought them in the U.S. in 1861 from a southern tobacco plantation.They were in perfect condition.
They sold for one hundred thousand dollars per cigar.Or a case for one milloin dollars.

 

[dlemaster]

Tom
While the tobacco stakes are still fairly common in Southren Ohio I don't see as many as I did when I was a kid and everyone was raising at least some tobacco.
I just got the tobacco peg (used when transplanting the plants), tobacco tomahawk, and tobacco spear that my great-grand father and grand father used. I used them myself back in the 60's when we were still growing tobacco. I gues I should go and get some of the stakes too, there is still proably over a thousand laid up in the old barn.

Regards, Dave

 

Hi Dave, didnt think about tomahawk handles.
Thats a good idea.