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  1. ditchman
    well you know what they say "idle hands will mistrief make "............. christ my eyes are going funny ...just got so many snaps of stuff ive done over the years.................... anyway thats how it ended up ... cheers for the comments ?
  2. ditchman
    get your old CB radio out and you will hear them talking to each other...."come back rubber duck ....thats a big 10-4......".......YYyyyeeeeee---HHhhhaaaaaahhhh
  3. ditchman
    quite right............ive left the pitting in...and ontop of the spring....?
  4. ditchman
    starting to "match" it together now...getting the metal to wood fit right...im using bronze pins for the scales and steel for the spring fulcrum point and the blade hinge........
  5. ditchman
    now that is seriously interesting ...cheers for that .........
  6. ditchman
    it was used as a shepards knife paring hoofs ....as it is still being used for that purpose this very day....i rekon it must be nearly 100 years old......the horn was totally knackered as you can see..........
  7. ditchman
    those holes in the logs ...are they for bumble bees to lay their eggs ?
  8. ditchman
    cut and shaped the blade on my old slow running 1930 linnisher...gave it a full scandi cut/grind both sides............and started to fit ebony scales to it..........
  9. ditchman
    those /these knives ...can all be done with a small ammount of tools ....and well within the skill set of all folk on this forum..........................have a go ....ask questions ..
  10. ditchman
    cheers............it didnt get a soak............just into the forge long and slow...and air cooled...then annealed as i said.....which has worked out fine.......its had a years hard use since i finished it...no probs yet prefer to work with O1 tho......
  11. ditchman
    cant quite get them in order....but you get the idea.....my mate dave sent me a bit of D2....which is nice to work ...nice and soft....and when you harden it you bring it to temperature and let air harden....you dont quench it in water or oil....you get very little wharp using that spec steel....then it was annealed later as i will show............ ditch
  12. ditchman
    is that the one uncle he had shot with an anti aircraft gun............?
  13. ditchman
    after i post this thread you will all suddenly realise that i am a hopeless lost case...in short a muppet..........these sort of disasters really float my boat....the knife was and is very special to someone and they didnt want to throw it away...so they sent it to me for a larf.........................i will post later as i need to do some shoppin..............
  14. ditchman
    thats gross..........must be grim up north to do that............we use spagnum moss in norfick down here......
  15. ditchman
    hi there my man....yup ...still taking carp air rifles and getting them to look nice and fire well....did you see the last Merc "S" that i did ....i spoke to the bloke i did it for last week and he regulary chrono's it and it has settled down at 11.4ft/lbs and is pin point accuate now havnt qite crossed the dark side yet but after being banned twice and filled up on points...for evading the swear filter and sexually inuendo's i thought i would start having a wander around this forum which i joined in 2014....in the format it had then i found it a bit difficult to navigate around....so tha
  16. ditchman
    does that mean ive got covid-19 again....................no wonder folk buy so much toilet paper....?
  17. ditchman
    the majority i make are either re-done new opinels or old rusty favourites that their owners want something a little special.....it worth it cause the steel is good quality.....i prefer to work on the non-stainless ones tho......... the other knives i do are total rebuilds of broken pocket knives....you know the sort ...."grandads old sheeps foot paring knife that was handed down to son ..then grandson...blade got thin and broke.....one gutted bloke...... i will show you what i mean tomorrow with some stuff ive done in the last year ...but posted "errr shall we say else where....?"
  18. ditchman
    just to finish off this thread this is how i fix the pommel on as i mentioned earlier..........that aint never going to come orf?
  19. ditchman
    thanks ...........i try not to make them perfect.its more how they feel in your hand.....i try to make them look like a tool not a weapon....... im trying to sort out the pics from the rebuilding of the horse knife...so i will put them up later..?
  20. ditchman
    i have an old tile cutter with a diamond edged blade on it ...so i took that off and put a cutting disc on it....mark it up by eye ..then push it onto the cutting disc......i use the same for cutting the excess off the metal...bit at a time so as not to melt the resin.....when it gets hottish i put it onto a tissue soaked in water (see pic att') then the slot for the blade is done using a disc cutter (mini)..................all of it has to be done by eye as all the antler points are different....thats why every knife is unique... i dont super clean the handle as i like to see
  21. ditchman
    i wont put many more pics up as i have bloody fawsands of them....but this shows the sort of procedure it goes thro.....the brass or bronze (sometimes ) pommel gets drilled and pinned and the pins are silver soldered into the metal then the antler is drilled out and the whole thing is set in epoxy.......... what i will do is start another thread maybe 2moz on the re-building of the Boer War pattern horse knife what was give to me to do up........... cheers
  22. ditchman
    cheers.................. one of the reasons i slowed down on making them ....is it was getting really hard to find good interesting Red deer antler..........i did have a beautiful point that i was saving for myself...it was twisted and knobbly............so i started work on it..............and ended up cutting it too short............i cursed and swore and sobbed my heart out as it was a real special piece ....then shoved it in the bandsaw and cut it up in a dozen pieces and binned it...?
  23. ditchman
    Proberly a few of you know me from another website.....either for my bad spelling or raw language....i does mek stuff...when im board...last couple of years i made dozens of these dun up opinels and give em away.......... some of them are real quirky.........i recently rebuilt a Boer War offices horse knife....one of the most beautiful multi tools i have ever seen ..........if you are interested in that sort of stuff give me the nod and i will put the thread up........ ditch
  24. ditchman
    yup like that.......what steel are you using ? ditch
  25. ditchman
    do you mean range insofar as the shot will carry or the effective killing range as per type of cartridge used ?
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