Myk
Thu January 16th,2003, 11:52 AM
Here's my knife (part II).
The first one wasn't balanced right and the heat treating cracked it, it only lasted through 2 deer before it gave out. The gut hook on part I was also too small to work on anything but fawns.
The best thing is the steel. It's some tool cutting steel a friend gets that we use red hard. I've had it go through two deer one season (including hacking apart bones and butchering) and it could still shave hair.
One of these days I'm going to make a whole butchering set but the steel is about $80 for not that big of a sheet.
Because of the high carbon content it comes out with a damascus type look to it that is almost impossible to polish off. I stripped the diamonds off a drill bit trying to open a hole in one of my friend's creations.
The first one wasn't balanced right and the heat treating cracked it, it only lasted through 2 deer before it gave out. The gut hook on part I was also too small to work on anything but fawns.
The best thing is the steel. It's some tool cutting steel a friend gets that we use red hard. I've had it go through two deer one season (including hacking apart bones and butchering) and it could still shave hair.
One of these days I'm going to make a whole butchering set but the steel is about $80 for not that big of a sheet.
Because of the high carbon content it comes out with a damascus type look to it that is almost impossible to polish off. I stripped the diamonds off a drill bit trying to open a hole in one of my friend's creations.