I had this one recently sent to me for some love, it's a XX era case that sat in a hardware store window in the sun...
Now, normally I don't really take on repair work, I don't like working on heirloom type knives, things like that because there is just to much that can go wrong
BUT, this is not one of those knives, and the owner asked for something I've been thinking about trying for some time, and was perfectly willing to let me experiment. His request was synthetic handles, some form of Micarta preferably, with jigging and nothing else really fancy (filework, etc) since this was going to be a user. I've been wanting to try out jigging for a while, it's so....tactile to play with, and frankly the jigging you see on most production knives is crap. sharp edges, flakey bone, terrible colors, etc. If you look at the jigged material going onto custom knives from guys like Todd Davison, Tony Bose and Ken Erickson, or the stuff on knives 60 years ago it bears little to no resemblance to the stuff adorning modern slippies. So, to much text, not enough pictures. This was the end result of a few days of playing around with carbide cutters and some paper micarta:
Adam you can really work magic on a knife. 
This is one of the best things about this site being able to look at top notch work. 
