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Here’s one I did a while back. I knew there was little chance I’d ever score a Stew’s blade , so I decided to do one as close as I could. Swapped blades from a standard run 15A and added Culpeppers amber sawcut bone.
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That looks really nice 👍🏻
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I have one complaint: Not enough pictures! Please post some more!
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Nice work! Love the handles! ::tu:: I agree more pictures please!
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Oh boy, that sure is a beauty!!!
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terdl76 wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:32 pm Here’s one I did a while back. I knew there was little chance I’d ever score a Stew’s blade , so I decided to do one as close as I could. Swapped blades from a standard run 15A and added Culpeppers amber sawcut bone.
Gorgeous. Looks like a one of a kind and beautiful. Great job, congrats.
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MAN... that is a beauty!
That saw cut bone is killer!

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terdl76 wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:32 pm Here’s one I did a while back. I knew there was little chance I’d ever score a Stew’s blade , so I decided to do one as close as I could. Swapped blades from a standard run 15A and added Culpeppers amber sawcut bone.
UH.... I know that sometimes my elevator down go slam to the top.... BUT.....

Can you give me a link to that Culpeppers saw cut bone?

I have tried every search I can think of and I can't find it....

I want some!

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I can't find the Amber sawcut bone on Culpepper's website either, In fact the entire website had changed since last time I was in there last!
From looking at their prices I see inflation must have affected the price of knife handle material, as well as gasoline and groceries! :shock:
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orvet wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:16 am I can't find the Amber sawcut bone on Culpepper's website either, In fact the entire website had changed since last time I was in there last!
From looking at their prices I see inflation must have affected the price of knife handle material, as well as gasoline and groceries! :shock:
Yep, I have even tried a general web search and I can't find anyone that currently has saw cut bone.
I guess that pattern of bone is just not popular or something..???

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I had to google Stew’s blade. It’s a beautiful knife for sure.
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Make your own. Get an Angus femur from the pet store, cut with a bandsaw, dye and install. I have made replacement bone slabs for several knives with Angus, and though the finished knife didn't have saw cut finish, that was only because I sanded the saw marks out. Mike, that Voos I pictured a week or two ago was rehandled with Angus on the mark side. I jigged that one, but could have easily left it saw cut. I was on Culpeppers website yesterday and thought their prices have risen sharply, like everyone elses.
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Hmmmm.......

Sounds like if prices are going up on bone (like EVERYTHING else) we are gonna have to start learning to cut, jig and dye our own bone cover material.

I have seen that a lot of bone that I have bought doesn't have dye that goes in very deep.
I think with a pressure cooker type situation where you suck out the air (is that right?) you can cold dye your own slabs.

Sounds like a new experiment for this winter.

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Meridian_Mike wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:53 pm Hmmmm.......

Sounds like if prices are going up on bone (like EVERYTHING else) we are gonna have to start learning to cut, jig and dye our own bone cover material.

I have seen that a lot of bone that I have bought doesn't have dye that goes in very deep.
I think with a pressure cooker type situation where you suck out the air (is that right?) you can cold dye your own slabs.

Sounds like a new experiment for this winter.

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Mike, this is the thread for one of them I did with some tips from others on dying bone.
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That is a great thread OC...

I am definitely going to set up a bone dying station and dye me some!

BTW... that knife and covers you did turned out NERY nice!

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