New life for old shop knife

[Bladepeek]

Quite a few years ago, I was making a batch of knives to send out for heat treating. One of them had a pretty shabby grind, but the incremental cost of the additional knife was small, so the bad grind when out too. When I got the knives back, this one got wrapped with tape and tossed on the bench. It has been used over the years for cutting wire, cardboard, whatever needed cutting in the shop.

Last week, I took a closer look at it and decided to fix it up. I had a nice fresh belt and it actually cleaned up about as good as any I've done before. I rubbed it out, put some blue-dyed and stabilized buckeye scales on it and I'm no longer so ashamed of it. ATS-34 @ RC-60.

Guess maybe it's time to make a sheath for it and maybe clean the gunk out of the jimpping grooves    :rolleyes:    

   

   

[gudspelr]

That looks great. The contouring on the handle looks nice and comfy, too. Bet it sees a lot of use in the years to come   .


Jeremy

[Greyswampfox]

I like it.  I agree with gudspeir the shape looks to make it a nice user.  Thanks for sharing.

[KSCATTRAPR]

Great little knife, I agree with everyone else on this one, looks like it would be very functional.

[FerretWYO]

very cool

[Steve Nuckels]

Ron, very nice knife cool story!

Steve
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[TrackerNy]

Really nice little knife. I like that buckeye handle!

[Lin Rhea]

That's a fine design for skinning and EDC. Great job.

[Bladepeek]

Thanks Lin. Wore it to a trad bow shoot and a guy wanted it more than I did. Now I'm back to no knife of my own again.

Guess it's time to get my butt back to work in the shop before hunting season catches me with someone else's knife on my belt.

[Sam McMichael]

For a junker knife, it sure turned out nice. Kind of like when the beautiful princess kissed the frog.