197Uh with home jigged & dyed bone handles

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:17 am

Well, I finally did it.
I took some smooth white bone slab, jigged them, dyed them and put them on an old Uncle Henry Cat's Paw, model #197UH.

I forgot to take a before pic, but the knife has a chip out of the end of the blade, the blade was heavily scratched and it had a terrible wobble to it.

I will save the bone jigging & dying process for another thread, as it is more than I can type tonight.

The thing I was most impressed with was that I was able to tighten a Swinden Key knife without drilling it out and pinning it. That too will have to wait for another time to explain.

Here are a few pics of the knife.

Let me know what you think,
Dale

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:05 am

cool, dale. looks like it will last another lifetime

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:26 pm

Groovy

Looks like one more Artist did a UNIQUE job.

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:40 pm

Very unique, keep up the good work.

MITCH RAPP · Post by **MITCH RAPP** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:59 pm

Dale; Good Job! Looks good.

johnnierotten · Post by **johnnierotten** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:14 pm

Thats Wild!!!

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:40 pm

Great work Dale!

I really like what you did with the bone jigging. Very unique

s-k

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:14 pm

Thanks guys!

I am still at the experimenting stage with both the jigging & the dying. I hope to come up with another jigging pattern or two. Also I am just scratching the surface of the dying process also. I will try and keep you posted and show more pics.

Has anyone else done any jigging or dying?
If so I would love to see your results.

Dale