My collection. One of these isnt Dads, but he had made me a custom knife sheath for it. I remember as a kid, He would boil the leather in linseed oil and parafin wax and soak the leather in it. He would work the leather around the knife for hours. You can take any of these knives and turn them upside down without the knife falling out, but when you go to pull them out they slide like butter. I think the three that are his are micarta, coco, and rose wood. As you can tell they get used. That rosewood has probably skinned at least 100 different big game animals. I believe, both of these came off the same rosewood board and coco blank in my first picture
This is the only Bowie knife he made, and the last knife he made. He is a Vietnam vet and has deterating retnae due to agent orange. He started not being able to see the details in his finish work. He did everything by sight, never used measuring equipment, Just eyeballed it. He got mad at his lines on this knife, laid it down, and walked away. He never put the edge on it, and never started another knife. Im going to send it to someone one day to finish it. He made it after watching Crocidile Dundee.
