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Offline Kent Shootwell

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belt knife
« on: February 07, 2015, 01:57:05 PM »
This is what I came up with for a carrying knife. Not the handiest but looks like I'm ready for a friendly bar fight.
Blade is A2 steel with brass and walnut handle. All made form scratch and my attempt at a sheath, that works as I hoped it would.
Little powder much lead shoots far kills dead.
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Re: belt knife
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2015, 11:01:28 AM »
Pretty as a picture, as they say. I also like the brass on the pommel. I have always thought that
truly useful knives are just a bit "naked" when they lack that butt plate.  Just sayin....

Nice work!

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Re: belt knife
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2015, 01:40:49 PM »
Hi

I love the knife, good proportions nice work.  I like the sheath also, but would have left a little more knife showing.  Great simple working setup.  I have The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend Hardcover by Norm Flayderman and they're some GAUDY stuff in there.

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Re: belt knife
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2015, 09:52:18 AM »
Hi

I love the knife, good proportions nice work.  I like the sheath also, but would have left a little more knife showing.  Great simple working setup.  I have The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend Hardcover by Norm Flayderman and they're some GAUDY stuff in there.

Mike

Yeah...I'm definitely from the "less-is-more"-school. I have searched-out a lot of pictures on GOOGLE Images and I like the more primative Native American stuff, but once a person gets past all of the fringe and beads and artificially aged stuff I have to wonder  just what I really have. Its true that I see posed pictures of 19th Century Native Americans with some pretty elaborate stuff.  but each time I see pictures of Scouts under real life conditions the sheathes are very utilitarian.  Just sayin...

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Bruce 
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Re: belt knife
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2015, 10:21:07 AM »
Yeah...I'm definitely from the "less-is-more"-school. I have searched-out a lot of pictures on GOOGLE Images and I like the more primative Native American stuff, but once a person gets past all of the fringe and beads and artificially aged stuff I have to wonder  just what I really have. Its true that I see posed pictures of 19th Century Native Americans with some pretty elaborate stuff.  but each time I see pictures of Scouts under real life conditions the sheathes are very utilitarian.  Just sayin...
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Re: belt knife
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2015, 11:02:41 AM »
Thanks for the kind reviews on the knife. Yep I favor the plain mostly. Little flash and mostly bang could be my byline.
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