All About Pocket Knives

I don’t have a before picture of this knife as it came with the handles off & with a piece of undersize pin stock for a rocker pin holding it together.

My customer needed a blade for the knife, as it is a knife he likes to carry. After searching the catacombs of my shop for a blade I could not find any Boker blade close to fitting, but I did find a nice carbon steel Ward’s Powr-Craft blade that fit it nicely, except that tang on the blade was the newer style with the smaller rounded tang as opposed to the larger squared off tangs originally on the knife.

I advised him the spring for the master blade would set low, but he said he was good with that.
This is what the back looks like with the new Powr-Craft blade- I installed the blade and amber jigged bone handles. I finished polishing it this morning and mailed it back to him.

Dang, Dale! You haven't slowed down a bit!
Another NICE one for sure.

... Joe

I think he'll be very pleased.Looks great.

You really got that amber color out on that one. I can see why your customer wanted to carry that.

Great save, and great work as usual!

Thanks guys.

glennbad wrote:You really got that amber color out on that one.

As you well know Glenn, sometimes getting a certain effect with a given set of bone scales just doesn’t happen for what ever reason, usually the characteristics of the bone itself. In this set of scales there was more difference than usual between the two pieces. Notice that the pile side handle is darker than the mark side handle; not sure why that is, but I think the mark side handle is just a hair harder. Maybe it soaked up less dye than the other one & being lighter and harder it seemed to shine up better.

These little inconsistencies are what fascinates me about working with bone; you rarely get the same identical result, and the differences can be rather pleasing to the eye.