I just finished this knife for the Land manager of the property that I hunt boars on. The last time I was there he gave me an old file and asked if I would make a gut hook skinning knife for him. It was a thin file, so I did not remove all the file serrations. The handle is the first I have done with a wood bolster. The bolster is made from a Chilean hardwood called Tepa. The main handle wood is a piece of hardwood I picked up in Venezuela. 1/8" brass pins in the bolster and 1/4" in the main handle. Not the prettiest knife I have made, but I think Don Juan will be happy with it.
My simple charcoal forge for normalizing and hardening.
Knife before hardening.
Forge fired.
Finished knife.
File work.
Thanks for looking,
James
Topic: Gut hook knife (Read 856 times)
