I finish these knives the week of the show and etched them Friday night. I did not have time to take pictures and post them here he for the show.
This first one is actually a restoration project. A Schrade Cut Co Scout pattern.
I took a couple pictures after I etched the blade and then I sold the knife at the show, so these are the only pictures I have of this knife.
I built one in a 897UH frame and the other in a 825 Open Stock frame.
This first one has Culpepper's sunset bone with Aberdeen jigging.
This is one of the few seconds I can actually say I know why it was a second, it had a white Delrin handle that was cracked and actually had a chip out of it. I'm pretty sure that's why it was downgraded and the name ground off.
But it is still a Western and you got a love that Western carbon steel! So I managed to get the Delrin off of the handle, (not easy to do), and I replaced it with some nice sambar stag. I had purchase a knife without a sheath and didn't have time to make a sheath from scratch so I made one from a kit.
It is not quite as thick as the Delrin that Schrade used on the standard 152 it does have a nice feel in the hand. I like it better actually than the Delrin. Unfortunately working with the bone was a big disappointment. The bone chipped around the rivet holes when I was drilling it. Next time I will drill it with an undersized bit and then work my way up to the correct diameter for the hole. I would've used a rivet drill and fasten the handles with rivets to make it look more like the bone version of the standard 152 but there was no way the bone would have stood up to the rivet drills.
