Author Topic: New Longhunter Knife (Read 12189 times)

t.caster · « **on:** April 21, 2009, 07:30:39 PM »

I recently put this longknife together for myself, between rifle projects. The blade is cut from an old broken machete blade. It seems flexible but was extremely hard to drill and sharpens nicely. Handle is off a deer I got back in my woods a year ago. It's hard to find such staight antler handles....and I have one more! Poured pewter at the end of the handle to make the handle a little longer for me. Weight and balance is most excellent. My old longknife was handle heavy using a thinner 100+yr. old butcher blade.
I'm pretty happy with the results shown here.

lew wetzel · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:42:59 PM »

tom,i like it alot...very nice knife.....trekking season is here now i have to get out my gear and get it ready...wish i would have taken the time to make myself a new knife this past winter....i am soo jealous...

Tim Crosby · « **Reply #2 on:** April 22, 2009, 12:55:21 AM »

Happy, I would be happy too if I had one turn out like that. Nice lines. Did you use something to age the blade or was it like that?

Tim C.

timM · « **Reply #3 on:** April 22, 2009, 03:05:56 AM »

Tom,.......very nice knife. I really like the overall proportions and the blade shape. Pretty well depicts my idea of a longhunters knife. Thanks for posting it. tim

G. Elsenbeck · « **Reply #4 on:** April 22, 2009, 04:28:14 AM »

Tom, just pretty much looks like a knife I always had in mind. I think its the proportion that just jumps out me. Great job.
Gary

LRB · « **Reply #5 on:** April 22, 2009, 02:58:23 PM »

Very nice. Well proportioned.

Longknife · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2009, 03:54:13 PM »

That knife sure looks GOOD with that rifle, Its a shame to split 'em up!!!??....Ed

elk killer · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2009, 03:56:43 PM »

very nice knife,, i have the perfect place for it,,!!!!

t.caster · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2009, 05:19:14 PM »

Edward the Longknife, you are cracking me up!!

Maybe you'd like my old knife!
For those who don't know Longknife is the proud new owner of that fine Edward Marshall rifle!

Yes, I applied the much maligned blue/clorox treatment to the blade.

Does anyone know what steel the common Chinese machetes are made of ???I haven't done the "spark test" yet.

LRB · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2009, 01:22:04 AM »

My best guess would be something equal to our 10xx. Basicly, a simple steel of iron, carbon, and a little manganese, or not. To make cheap products, the first thing in importance is to use cheap materials. Not to say that the steel is poor, just that it is simple, and easy to produce. Nice job on the knife. Looks like pro work. Not a critique, but merely a simple tidbit of info. As far as I know, there are no documentable 18th c. knives with pewter bolsters, or mounts. The key being "documentable". I only know what I read, and have done a few myself knowing that, but sometimes one makes what sells. There are some that Madison Grant dated into the 18th c., but Grant is known to have been a bit "imaginative" with his dateing. At any rate, nice work, and you have a good eye for proportional balance.

Berks Liberty · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2009, 05:43:51 AM »

Tom, very nice! I can send you my address, X-mas is coming and that knife would look really good under my tree!

Jason

TNrifleman · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2009, 04:41:04 PM »

That is a beautiful knife with very nice lines. A man would be proud to carry that one.

Brian Jordan · « **Reply #12 on:** April 24, 2009, 02:00:33 PM »

That is a very nice looking knife!!

t.caster · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2009, 09:25:52 PM »

Just a follow up....the spark test revealed it to be a mild carbon steel probably in the 1040-1050 range. So it can be hardened easily.

As for authenticity of the pewter used on knives in that time period, that's OK. Heck, even the painter David Wright carries a similar weapon, so if it's correct enough for him, I'm OK with it

P.W.Berkuta · « **Reply #14 on:** April 26, 2009, 12:02:59 AM »

Tom or other knife makers out there -- where are you getting your crown antler handles? It seems that they are getting hard to find at a reasonable price

- if you can find it at all. I have four or five blades I want to put crown antler on.

t.caster · « **Reply #15 on:** April 27, 2009, 11:52:59 PM »

Paul...I shoot em! That was 1/2 of my buck from 2007!
Danged if I'll pay the rediculous prices either. Watch garage sales and auctions, sometimes they can be found or bartered real cheap.
Good hunting!

Collector · « **Reply #16 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:28:42 PM »

If you're in deer country, keep your eye open for sheds, during and after the season. That's what these people are doing. Now, that's not to say that it isn't nicer to find them, in season and in range, on the head of a nice careless buck. Good luck!

altland jr. · « **Reply #17 on:** April 29, 2009, 10:22:47 PM »

very cool i have a knife just like that

t.caster · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2009, 12:02:11 AM »

A Jr. can you post pics of yours. Actually I changed mine the other day... took some matl. of the top out by the point, to give it a double curve along the top!

altland jr. · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:50:16 PM »

Hey here are some pictures of mine. It sounds like you made it look pretty cool do you go to Dixon's Muzzleloader show? I posted my first powder horn. feel free to have a look if you didn't already. Sorry the pics are kinda blurry.

t.caster · « **Reply #20 on:** April 30, 2009, 11:37:02 PM »

Boy that's a nice one! I was looking for one like that at the Kalamzoo Show in March, but no one had anything like it. Not even blade blanks. Everyone had patch knives and Bowies. So I made my own in a pinch with what was laying around! Isn't that the American pioneering way?
Did you make yours? Nice damascus!

altland jr. · « **Reply #21 on:** May 04, 2009, 11:14:21 PM »

No i didn't make it. I started working with knife making but its enough work making the powder horns and helping my dad with the new business. (York County Fire Locks) I hope to get more into knife making though!!

msblacksmith · « **Reply #22 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:45:03 AM »

nice knife

C Wallingford · « **Reply #23 on:** May 08, 2009, 01:39:51 PM »

Chris--
Isn't that the knife that you got from me? It looks familiar.

t.caster · « **Reply #24 on:** May 08, 2009, 07:38:25 PM »

Charlie, I'd like to know what you get for a nice knife like that, if it is one of yours. Do you have a website?

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Author Topic: New Longhunter Knife (Read 12189 times)

lew wetzel

timM

Berks Liberty

TNrifleman

altland jr.

altland jr.

altland jr.

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