The closest i've come to dying

[muskrat man]

This dang near kilt me before I got it finished. Now.........I have to make it's big brother!

This started out as a 9" flat blade Frank B. swivel bolster stiletto. I made new nickel silver bolsters, the fronts being maltese guards, the rears being in shot shell extractor style (functional) in 12 ga and 16 ga. Flush nickel silver button, smooth blue bone handles with red liners, and modified vine filework. She's a hefty bugger with all that solid NS on her.!

[glenn]

Very nice indeed

[Darksev]

Holy crap man, that thing is fantastic! You're guilt tripping me without even knowing it. I have not done a single knife yet this year. I have a camillus, a kingston and a spyderco all broken down on the bench, but zero motivation.

top notch work man!

[orvet]

Very nice Kaleb.
Extra Nice!!!
I like it and I don't normally like that style!

Dale

[gmusic]

Good job Kaleb!

Why is the butt shaped like that?

[muskrat man]

Good job Kaleb!

Why is the butt shaped like that?

Thanks folks:

" the rears being in shot shell extractor style (functional) in 12 ga and 16 ga."

They were used for grabbing jammed shotshell casings in double and single barrel shotguns; aids in extraction of stuck casings. This was particularly common problem with old double barrels and paper shotshells becuase if the paper hulls got wet they would swell in the chamber and would not extract and so this came in handy for grabbing the rim of the case and manually extracting the stuck casings.

[gmusic]

pretty cool.................thanks for the reply!

[WelderBob]

Neat looking knife and those shell pullers do come in handy...

[Gunsmoke47]

Great Knife Kaleb!