A new skinner....

[Grand Torino]

Well I finished it yesterday. It's 1/8" thick 1095 carbon steel with a RC 60. The blade is ground very thin....good for a skinning knife I reckon. I etched it in Super Blue and bleach first to obtain the pitting and and generally the "damn that knife looks old look". When it comes out of 3 hours of the bleach it has about 1/8" of an inch of rust on it. It looks likes it's been rusting in a barn for 50 years. 

 

The you have to clean it all off and sand it smooth and when you get it where  you want it I dipped into my regular etching solution for about 8 minutes and it turns it all black. Then you have to clean it off again and sand it again. I sanded the blade to 800 grit. You can see how shiny it actually came out. The blade grind is smooth as a baby's butt.

 

Then a final sharpening and installed the handles and coated them with a coat of linseed oil and burnished them with leather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MacGyver]

That's sweet!

[jacob]

Nice work, very cool blade

[Randall53]

Great looking knife!! You are a talented man GT!!

[I am Groot!]

Looks great. I am surprised at how good those screw heads look. The contrasting colors in the handle set it off. Edited December 6, 2014 by Odessa7979

[sybo]

Damned awesome!

[BJB]

That is Sweet

[RED333]

I still say we get you to do a group buy, but I know it takes a long time to make a knife as good as you do.

[KahrMan]

Very nice!  Looks like it would do a good job on skinning a deer.

Edited December 8, 2014 by KahrMan

[BigK]

Fine work as always. Love that blade shape.