This is a knife I made out of spare parts. I buy knife parts, especially Schrade parts, whenever and wherever I can find them. I bought a few pounds of Schrade parts and found the handles for this knife. It is the same size as the 296Y, the 4 1/8 inch yellow trapper. These handles had what appeared to be the early stages of Uncle Henry Staglon, however the handles were not hafted yet and so the lighter yellow color did not show through. I tried to match the color and the jigging pattern as closely as I could, the match is not perfect but it’s in the ballpark. The inner Swinden assembly with the liner, back springs and blades were ones I had picked up somewhere else. From the tang stamp I assume the blades were probably for and SFO, perhaps even a Ducks Unlimited version. I put it all together and was reasonably pleased with the outcome.
The bone I put on this knife came from Culpepper's. It is root beer color with the Catalina jigging pattern.
In this picture I have the Staglon handles that I removed from the liners.
I sanded down the end of one of them to show the color beneath the outer dye layer.
I would like to put a shield on this knife, but an Uncle Henry shield would be a bit much I think. Perhaps a nice bowtie shield would look good.
I am open to suggestions on a shield, if anybody has an opinion about what kind of shield would look good on this large knife.
An additional note:
It is much different putting together a knife from new parts then it is rebuilding an old knife that was completed. The springs are way oversized, I had to grind nearly 1/8" off the bottoms of the springs so that they would be flush with the liners. I didn't realize how much oversize though springs were made until I began working with new parts on this knife.
, it just doesn't quite fit.
