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Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:55 am
by tknottsknives
Hello all.
Got a new one to show you. I've had this about done for a few weeks but finally called it finished. I was planning on putting this up for sale but I really just am not happy with the pile side bone. All looked good until polishing and then some really light spots came out so I decided this one might stay with me. Other than that, it came out really good. I'm still trying to get the Jigging pattern right. I don't know how the old timers did it but i think they had some art mixed with magic! Anyways, let me know what you think. Comments and Critiques welcome.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:19 am
by FRJ
tknottsknives wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:55 am
Hello all.
Got a new one to show you. I've had this about done for a few weeks but finally called it finished. I was planning on putting this up for sale but I really just am not happy with the pile side bone. All looked good until polishing and then some really light spots came out so I decided this one might stay with me. Other than that, it came out really good. I'm still trying to get the Jigging pattern right. I don't know how the old timers did it but i think they had some art mixed with magic! Anyways, let me know what you think. Comments and Critiques welcome.
Dec2025_DblBol_KP.jpg
Dec_2025_DblBol_Open.jpg
Dec2025_DblBol_Closed.jpg
Dec2025_DblBolBuild.jpg
I think that is a very handsome knife. Those light spots wouldn't bother me.
Very nice solid work.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:26 am
by doglegg
FRJ wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:19 am
tknottsknives wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:55 am
Hello all.
Got a new one to show you. I've had this about done for a few weeks but finally called it finished. I was planning on putting this up for sale but I really just am not happy with the pile side bone. All looked good until polishing and then some really light spots came out so I decided this one might stay with me. Other than that, it came out really good. I'm still trying to get the Jigging pattern right. I don't know how the old timers did it but i think they had some art mixed with magic! Anyways, let me know what you think. Comments and Critiques welcome.
Dec2025_DblBol_KP.jpg
Dec_2025_DblBol_Open.jpg
Dec2025_DblBol_Closed.jpg
Dec2025_DblBolBuild.jpg
I think that is a very handsome knife. Those light spots wouldn't bother me.
Very nice solid work.
A little art plus magic of your own.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:43 am
by tknottsknives
FRJ wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:19 am
I think that is a very handsome knife. Those light spots wouldn't bother me.
Very nice solid work.
Thank you! There is just such a difference when I look at front the top or from the spine that it just bothers me lol.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:47 am
by tknottsknives
doglegg wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:26 am
A little art plus magic of your own.
Thank you, I appreciate that. I think the look if jigged bone is hard to beat on a traditional knife.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:59 am
by 1967redrider
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:16 am
by cudgee
Fantastic. Sheepsfoot knives are one of my favourites and go to knives, yours is no exception. We all mark our own work hard.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:13 am
by tknottsknives
Thank you! I appreciate the compliment.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:19 am
by tknottsknives
cudgee wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:16 am
Fantastic. Sheepsfoot knives are one of my favourites and go to knives, yours is no exception. We all mark our own work hard.
Thank you. You know, I never liked sheepsfoot for years, I just didn't like the looks. Then I went to the Coast Guard and they issued us marlin spikes with a sheepsfoot and I fell in love with it. For every day jobs it's impossible to beat. I made my wife a knife with a sheepsfoot and she loves it.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:29 am
by Reverand
As the maker, you are your own worst critic.
I like both the jigging pattern on both cales, and the variation of color on the pile side bone. It may not match what you had in mind, and that probably drives you to continue perfecting your craft, but I see them as making the knife individually beautiful.
It is obvious that you made it with care and precision, and I think that every person on this forum would love to own it!
Be proud of it - it is a better knife than you think!
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:27 am
by Railsplitter
Reverand wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:29 am
As the maker, you are your own worst critic.
I like both the jigging pattern on both cales, and the variation of color on the pile side bone. It may not match what you had in mind, and that probably drives you to continue perfecting your craft, but I see them as making the knife individually beautiful.
It is obvious that you made it with care and precision, and I think that every person on this forum would love to own it!
Be proud of it - it is a better knife than you think!
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:42 pm
by royal0014
That bit of variation in color I would call character, and I like it
Gorgeous workmanship !
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:51 pm
by TripleF
Stunning!!!
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:05 pm
by OLDE CUTLER
Yes, I can see why it would bother you. I think you should dispose of it in my direction! lol
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:01 pm
by tknottsknives
Reverand wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:29 am
As the maker, you are your own worst critic.
I like both the jigging pattern on both cales, and the variation of color on the pile side bone. It may not match what you had in mind, and that probably drives you to continue perfecting your craft, but I see them as making the knife individually beautiful.
It is obvious that you made it with care and precision, and I think that every person on this forum would love to own it!
Be proud of it - it is a better knife than you think!
Thank you Sir, I really do appreciate the comment. I know I am probably my own worst critic for sure but any knife I put my name on and a price tag I just want it to be the best that I can do. If the color variation would have just been on the sides themself, It wouldn't bother me as much but the contrast looking at it from the spine just doesn't settle well with me. To me it just looks like a lack of attention to detail and I know I can do better. I should have noticed it during the build but for some reason I didn't and once the buffer hit it, it really lightened up. I tried to dye it and no luck as it just wouldn't take. Its just another lesson, not a big deal. Here is what I'm talking about:
Thanks again for the kind words and I really enjoy watching your videos over a cup of coffee in the morning. Keep up the good work.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:05 pm
by tknottsknives
royal0014 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:42 pm
That bit of variation in color I would call character, and I like it
Gorgeous workmanship !
Thank you!
TripleF wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:51 pmStunning!!!
Thank you Sir.
OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:05 pm
Yes, I can see why it would bother you. I think you should dispose of it in my direction! lol
LOL Thank you. Its been a while since I carried a sheepsfoot. I think I'll add it to the rotation.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 5:33 pm
by cudgee
tknottsknives wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:01 pm
Reverand wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:29 am
As the maker, you are your own worst critic.
I like both the jigging pattern on both cales, and the variation of color on the pile side bone. It may not match what you had in mind, and that probably drives you to continue perfecting your craft, but I see them as making the knife individually beautiful.
It is obvious that you made it with care and precision, and I think that every person on this forum would love to own it!
Be proud of it - it is a better knife than you think!
Thank you Sir, I really do appreciate the comment. I know I am probably my own worst critic for sure but any knife I put my name on and a price tag I just want it to be the best that I can do. If the color variation would have just been on the sides themself, It wouldn't bother me as much but the contrast looking at it from the spine just doesn't settle well with me. To me it just looks like a lack of attention to detail and I know I can do better. I should have noticed it during the build but for some reason I didn't and once the buffer hit it, it really lightened up. I tried to dye it and no luck as it just wouldn't take. Its just another lesson, not a big deal. Here is what I'm talking about:
Dec_2025_DblBol_Spine.jpg
Thanks again for the kind words and I really enjoy watching your videos over a cup of coffee in the morning. Keep up the good work.
I've seen plenty of Case, GEC you name it come from the factory looking like that. Matching covers can be one of the most difficult things in the making of knives.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:49 pm
by tknottsknives
cudgee wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 5:33 pm
I've seen plenty of Case, GEC you name it come from the factory looking like that. Matching covers can be one of the most difficult things in the making of knives.
I agree and hear what you are saying but as a maker, I need to be better than factory, and fit and finish is one of those areas that makes a big difference.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:55 pm
by bestgear
tknottsknives wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:55 am…but I really just am not happy with the pile side bone.
”Imperfectly perfect” would correctly describe our opinion of every condition of human or naturally occurring beauty in the world. Beauty is a term we humans apply to a person or anything else that we perceive has “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the eye, yet we know perception is not any sort of scientific analysis. This is a subjective opinion about what we find pleasing.
When we qualify it as “Imperfectly perfect”, we are merely acknowledging the reality of our assessment. To me, your knife is perfect as-is but in the eyes of the creator, I respect your opinion.
Part of the reason I love custom knives is no two are identical as they would be if they were produced in a factory.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 12:31 am
by tknottsknives
bestgear wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:55 pm
When we qualify it as “Imperfectly perfect”, we are merely acknowledging the reality of our assessment. To me, your knife is perfect as-is but in the eyes of the creator, I respect your opinion.
Part of the reason I love custom knives is no two are identical as they would be if they were produced in a factory.
Thank you Sir. I really do appreciate the comments. My wife always says I'm to picky with my work but I want want to be the most picky of what i put out. I love knife making and learning. My goal is to always make the next knife better than the last. It definitely was a fun build and probably the best (in my eye) jigging that I've done. I'll use this as another lesson and also give me another knife I made to carry, use and confirm my quality is to expectations.
Thanks again...it really does mean a lot to have others appreciate your work.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 12:36 am
by cudgee
tknottsknives wrote: ↑Sun Dec 07, 2025 12:31 am
bestgear wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:55 pm
When we qualify it as “Imperfectly perfect”, we are merely acknowledging the reality of our assessment. To me, your knife is perfect as-is but in the eyes of the creator, I respect your opinion.
Part of the reason I love custom knives is no two are identical as they would be if they were produced in a factory.
Thank you Sir. I really do appreciate the comments. My wife always says I'm to picky with my work but I want want to be the most picky of what i put out. I love knife making and learning. My goal is to always make the next knife better than the last. It definitely was a fun build and probably the best (in my eye) jigging that I've done. I'll use this as another lesson and also give me another knife I made to carry, use and confirm my quality is to expectations.
Thanks again...it really does mean a lot to have others appreciate your work.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 12:25 pm
by glennbad
I think it looks great! However, I also agree with your assessment on the mismatched covers. Some buyers might not care, but most buyers of custom knives would probably have a problem with that.
Everything else looks really nice...the jigging, fit and finish, etc. Are those bolsters NS or SS?
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 2:51 pm
by tknottsknives
glennbad wrote: ↑Mon Dec 08, 2025 12:25 pm
I think it looks great! However, I also agree with your assessment on the mismatched covers. Some buyers might not care, but most buyers of custom knives would probably have a problem with that.
Everything else looks really nice...the jigging, fit and finish, etc. Are those bolsters NS or SS?
Thanks! Bolsters, liners, shields and pins are all NS. I know NS scuffs easier than SS but to me it's just classic. I like how it patinas.
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:38 am
by wlf
Great looking jigging ,
Re: Sheepsfoot Slipjoint with Jigged bone covers.
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 1:19 am
by tknottsknives
wlf wrote: ↑Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:38 am
Great looking jigging ,
Thank you. I love the old jigged bone. My biggest issue is trying to make it look random without making it looks sloppy. Random is very difficult because my brain likes patterns lol. I was happy with this one though. I thought it came out nice.
