a nice little skinner

[ozy clint]

last sunday i started knapping a blade from a piece of mahogany obsidian and i finished it through the week. i also played around with a piece of water buffulo horn to use for a handle. today i hafted the blade to the handle with pine pitch and sinew and made a little sheath from kangaroo hide that i tanned myself with wattle bark. it is stitched with sinew.
it's primitive throughout!

a nice little project comes to an end.......it's now waiting to skin something.

 
 
 

[owlbait]

Great looking project. Hope you get to skinning soon!

[skullworks]

I like it! Very cool project!

[Doug Campbell]

   

[Neutron]

Nice.  Did you heat up that horn and mold it to fit the knife blade or something?  Cannot tell for sure but it looks like it bends in on the sides a little to grip the blade.

[OconeeDan]

That's pretty cool!

[prarieboy]

Thats right nice little skinner!!!!!!!!

[ozy clint]

neutron- no the handle is solid horn. i just sanded it to shape to fit the blade. there was actually another couple of inches of solid horn that i cut of before the horn started getting hollow.

[Steve Nuckels]

Clint, very cool project!  I like it all!

Steve
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[Kevin Evans]

That little burger is Cool!!!

[TxMoon]

That is sweet.. I use to do a lot of digging. where I live there is lots of good flint. I have a sweet corner tang that is made of root beer flint and you can almost see threw it.. I might have to pick you up some flint and send to you if you like.? privet message me you address..