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 Skinner knife
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10/11/17 02:07 PM
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T Stoub
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Light Foot
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Light Foot
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 Skinner made from an East Texas lawn mower blade and West Texas Mesquite handle and red spacers
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Re: Skinner knife
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10/11/17 03:09 PM
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shumpertdavid
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I like that, nice lookin blade
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Re: Skinner knife
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10/11/17 06:10 PM
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oaktreeplanter
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I like the red spacers in the handle. They set off the mesquite quite well.
"They will be called oaks of righteousness"
Isaiah 61:3
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Re: Skinner knife
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10/14/17 12:50 PM
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bbqfan5909
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Any more info on how knife was made, looks great!
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Re: Skinner knife
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10/16/17 12:41 PM
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T Stoub
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Light Foot
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This knife blade was cut from an old lawn mower blade using a right-angle grinder and a cutting wheel. After a crude cut I use a grinding wheel on the right-angle grinder to get closer to my line. Then its multiple hours on a belt sander to finalize the shape, sand the top surface and ultimately shape the bevels. Heat treatment is next when I heat the blade in my home-made paint-can kiln to cherry red before it gets the dunk in vegetable oil. After sanding to remove the fire damage the mesquite blanks are formed to a consistent thickness and attached to the blade with epoxy and pins. After a 24 hour drying the handle is shaped using the same belt sander and occasional oscillating sander.
Hope that helps, BBQFAN5909.
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