Your favorite blades

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Shadowhntr
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Re: Your favorite blades

#31 Post by Shadowhntr »

Here is one of my new favorites a friend made himself....

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Here you can really see how nice the knapping is. This thing is razor sharp! It's a fancy kind of obsidian.

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Re: Your favorite blades

#32 Post by Shadowhntr »

Here is my favorite working knife. A friend hand made it from D2 steel and tempered to low 60's Rockwell. He Made the sheath too. I absolutely have never owned a better blade. This lil knife has taken care of dressing and quartering up 3 deer now. I'd not use anything else.

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Re: Your favorite blades

#33 Post by eidsvolling »

Shadowhntr wrote:This thing is razor sharp! It's a fancy kind of obsidian.

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Wow! I've never seen that kind of obsidian before. That's an amazing knife.

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Re: Your favorite blades

#34 Post by Captainkirk »

Beautiful!
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Re: Your favorite blades

#35 Post by Carpdaddy »

That is sharp in more than one way!

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Re: Your favorite blades

#36 Post by Mohawk »

Yep Shadow, those are both top shelf blades. That lil working knife is made of some pretty hard stuff, I bet it was sharp through at least 3/4 of the skull skinning job :lol:

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Re: Your favorite blades

#37 Post by White Falcon »

Looking good!

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Re: Your favorite blades

#38 Post by Shadowhntr »

Mohawk wrote:That lil working knife is made of some pretty hard stuff, I bet it was sharp through at least 3/4 of the skull skinning job :lol:
UGH! He ain't touched my knife since! :lol:
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Re: Your favorite blades

#39 Post by Shadowhntr »

Thanks for all the nice post.

My friend Chuck, works with all kinds of fancy rock. Beautiful rocks he calls Mook, and Agate, that come in an assortment of mixed colors or solids. Obviously he works with others like obsidians, flints, bloodstones, and I think he even mentioned jasper but don't quote me on that....I know little to nothing about it and am only trying to go on memory. He and his mentor have a rock business, and saw slabs of it to sell all over the U.S. They also obviously make tools, heads, and blades with some of it too. They are both incredible knappers.
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Re: Your favorite blades

#40 Post by Captainkirk »

I could use a "knapp" right now...got up too early today.
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