My new skinner

[jindydiver]

I hooked in this week and made myself a new skinning knife.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/newskinner.jpg

Now I just have to make a sheath :)

[Mick Smith]

Jindy

Looks great!!! What's the handle made of?

Mick

[jindydiver]

Black canvas micarta :)

[HOOD]

Great piece Jindy, How long did it take to make and what steel did you use?

[jindydiver]

All up 6 hours in 3 x 2 hour shifts. It costs me a great deal of pain when I make the knives so I have to do it in spurts.

The steel is L6 from a big old saw blade a friend dropped off last week.

I don't have the machine to test the rockwell of the blade after heat treat, but a steel wont touch it, and from the temps I used to temper it I estimate it is at least 60Rc for the edge. The spine is much softer because I only quenched the edge.

[Axe]

Top job Mick, very impressive :D

[jindydiver]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/jindydiver/newskinner2.jpg

I will try to get some better pics tomorrow :)

Thanks for the compliments guys

[XTfreak]

Very nice job.
Bill

[interceptor]

Very nice work Jindy, looks a real treat.

Cheers Noel

[Sc(+)pE]

Can you make me a sword :)

[Wellsy]

Nice job Jindy

[Bowmancam]

Looks great Jindy, looks just like the one i love so much (nudge,nudge :wink: :wink: )


Very nice mate. That knife sure has got some work ahead of it.


Cheers, Cam

[Luke]

Very nice indeed!!!

Might I be so bold as to ask why it causes you pain to make knives?

Luke :D

[jindydiver]

I had a accident back in '96 and I have a fractured vertebrae in my lower spine and nerve damage in my neck. People here who have hunted with me will have noticed how slow to move I can get after a while. :(
Holding the blade against the grinder causes the nerves in my neck to get very cranky, and if I over do it I get to do nothing fun for a long time. It is only through intensive therapy and force of will that I get to do many of the things that I love.


An upside to it is that I have introduced quite a few people to deer hunting since my accident. I need people to carry the carcass :lol: :lol:

[Luke]

That sux, mate.

Good on ya for not letting it detir you from your passions.

Luke

[Sparra]

Great work there Jindy but having seen a few of your other knives I would expect nothing less.. :wink: And as for being slow I do recall a certain hill we clambered up and I'm not too sure who was the worst for ware/wear/where???.... :lol:
Regards...Sparra

[Piggy]

Hey Jindy love the knife thats fantastic a man of many tallents hey :wink:

[HOOD]

I had a accident back in '96 and I have a fractured vertebrae in my lower spine and nerve damage in my neck. People here who have hunted with me will have noticed how slow to move I can get after a while. :(
Holding the blade against the grinder causes the nerves in my neck to get very cranky, and if I over do it I get to do nothing fun for a long time. It is only through intensive therapy and force of will that I get to do many of the things that I love.


An upside to it is that I have introduced quite a few people to deer hunting since my accident. I need people to carry the carcass :lol: :lol:

I hear you on this point, I to have lower back and nerve problems from an car accident 8yrs ago and have the same problem of not being able to do things for to long a period of time.
But as stuborn as I am I still do things sometimes that I know I'll suffer for later, but hey why stop just cause the docs say you shouldn't.

Besides don't they say "perfection takes time" :D

[Bowmancam]

How about a pic of your knife Cam ?


Shhhh coach ... i've already given him a nudge :wink:


Cheers, Cam

[pdrwired]

beautiful home made knife

[barebow]

Top knife mate,especially like the handle.