Skinner knife

Skinner made from an East Texas lawn mower blade and West Texas Mesquite handle and red spacers

I like that, nice lookin blade

I like the red spacers in the handle. They set off the mesquite quite well.

Any more info on how knife was made, looks great!

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.