All About Pocket Knives

Thanks for the comments on the grips. I bought a couple of airguns a few years back when rimfire ammo was hard to get and expensive. They will make just as good a hole in paper targets as a 22lr will. The Crosman 1377 shoots better than the "jerk behind the trigger" can. Like the 10/22 Ruger, there is a lot of accessories available for the 1377. Mine still has the plastic breech, I would like to upgrade it to a steel breech and better sights.

OLDE CUTLER,
I dug around and found my old Crosman, it too is a model 1377. In script on the right side it says "American Classic" and there is a serial number on the left side. The frame appears to be made of some kind of pot metal, lots of the black finish is missing around the trigger guard. Yours appears to be much more refined than this refugee from the county dump 30 years ago. I'll have to clean it up and run a BB through it.
Treefarmer Just figured how to date this things, first 3 or 4 number indicate the month and year of mfg. Mine starts with 1079XXXXX, October, 1979.

It has been a little cooler here the past few days, so I got out into the garage and did some pen turning.
From left: Indian Rosewood, a pair of oak burl, 2 walnut with maple bands, Indian rosewood/maple, and 2 walnut/maple/zebra wood laminate. An assortment of one piece walnut

OLDE CUTLER wrote:It has been a little cooler here the past few days, so I got out into the garage and did some pen turning.
From left: Indian Rosewood, a pair of oak burl, 2 walnut with maple bands, Indian rosewood/maple, and 2 walnut/maple/zebra wood laminate.
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An assortment of one piece walnut
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Wow! Those are really nice! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Some good looking pens OC. I have one and love it. Great job.

I just finished up this wire and canvas mallard to add to my flock.

OLDE CUTLER wrote:I just finished up this wire and canvas mallard to add to my flock.

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That's very nice! I've never seen one like that.
I whittled out a simple fish looking lure for decoration. Think I'll do a few more in different colors and maybe add a trebble hook to a few.

Some very nice work, guys!!

OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!!
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well.

doglegg wrote:OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!!
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well.

Thanks! Did you ever get a lure from him? My uncle is trying to talk me into carving a fish decoy for spearing.

Doug51 wrote:

doglegg wrote:OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!!
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well.

Thanks! Did you ever get a lure from him? My uncle is trying to talk me into carving a fish decoy for spearing.

Doug, at the time I was interested in neither fishing or whittling so I never did get one from him. The idea of a fish decoy sounds interesting. Would you make it out of bass wood or a heaver wood?

doglegg wrote:

Doug51 wrote:

doglegg wrote:OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!!
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well.

Thanks! Did you ever get a lure from him? My uncle is trying to talk me into carving a fish decoy for spearing.

Doug, at the time I was interested in neither fishing or whittling so I never did get one from him. The idea of a fish decoy sounds interesting. Would you make it out of bass wood or a heaver wood?

The fish decoy I've seen we're basswood and they used lead weights in them to keep them from floating. Spearing pike through the ice. I'm not much of a fisherman. I like to hunt my food!:-)

Although I have not yet made one, I have this fish decoy pattern book done by Anthony Hillman in 1993. It has 17 patterns for carving fish decoys. For those of you who have not seen how fish decoys were used by the Native Americans, this drawing is from inside the pattern book.

Cool book and drawing OC, made me cold seeing him lying on the ice fishing. Making a living has always been a little hard I guess. Thanks for the information and sharing.

Nice book OC! I'll have to see if I can find a copy. You should carve out a couple. I seen a program last winter about a guy here in Michigan that made fish decoys. They get right into the movement of the decoy in the water. Way beyond anything I know.

I finished up some more projects over the weekend that were in the works for a while.
Desk pens turned from some laminated gunstock scrap (with maple bands) that a friend gave me. Pens turned from ironwood (with maple bands), really hard stuff with some great looking grain and color. Wire and canvas bluebill (14 1/2" overall length). I tried something new by using a painted nail head for an eye on this one.

OC, those ironwood pens look super. And great idea on the eye. I always enjoy looking at your stuff. Thanks.

Beautiful work on the pens! OC
A couple things I have been working on

Pumpkin is perfect project for the season. And the fish turned out good too! Thanks for sharing!

doglegg wrote:Pumpkin is perfect project for the season. And the fish turned out good too! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks. There's something kind of satisfying about a simple quick carving.

First time trying to get scale's on a fish.

Doug, that is amazing. Those scales look proportioned and very detailed. Wow, that is good. Did you use your case whittler?

doglegg wrote:Doug, that is amazing. Those scales look proportioned and very detailed. Wow, that is good. Did you use your case whittler?

Thanks! I used a Old Timer carving jack that had a little U shaped gouge to make the scales by just pressing it down hard to cut the scales in. And that little Bark River fixed blade to Rough it out and the Case Seahorse whittler to finish shaping everything.

A good choice of tools. I have one of those Old Timers you are talking about. I don't find it as useful as I thought I would but it is handy for some things. Doug, I sure enjoy your sharing.

I was disappointed with the Old Timer tool. Mine came with every tool dull. I still haven't gotten them totally sharp. I got the idea from a video that Mike Stinnet did on u-tube. He used a tool to put the scales on snakes that he carves on canes and walking sticks. I was going to try it with a blade but the u tool was so much faster and more consistent.