Case 093 Toothpick Rehandle

[herbva]

I recently bought this 093 "toothpick" at a fairly reasonable price on the bay because of the missing chunk of bone on the mark side and missing shield. (first pic.) I thought from the ebay pics that I might be able to do one of my patch jobs, but the missing section turned out to be just too big when I received the knife. After searching through my Culpepper collection, I found a pair of scales that I thought might match the pile side closely enough. It ended up being not as close as I thought, but I think its close enough that that I'm not going to bother replacing the perfectly good side with the other piece that I have. (At least that's how I feel at the moment.) You be the judge. The 4th pic is the good pile side that I was trying to match. Last pic is my new knife with my 098 Tested. Even though the 093 is 5" long (closed) that old 098 dwarfs it in comparison. I think they will keep each other pretty good company in my collection. Oh, and I almost forgot - the replacement shield came from a 6265 "donor" folding hunter in my parts box. Although it is a little beat up, this shield amazingly was a perfect fit with the pin holes in the liner that were already there.

[Reverand]

I am with you, I think that the handles match well enough. Looks really good, and I'll bet she rides perfectly in the pocket!

[Jeffinn]

That turned out great!

[1967redrider]

Great looking knife, herbva.

[Beavertail]

Looks mighty fine to me!

[Meridian_Mike]

Your knife looks great. If the difference between the 2 sides doesn't bother you... then all is well.
I see the difference but it would be hard for the untrained eye to see a difference. If you don't point it out.... nobody will say anything.

I say, great job... your knife is 100% better than it was when you got it.

It's a winner!

[glennbad]

Well, it's kinda hard to look at both sides of the knife at the same time...so, I think they match just fine. Great work!

[Meridian_Mike]

Well, it's kinda hard to look at both sides of the knife at the same time...so, I think they match just fine. Great work!

Perfect advice Glenn.

[orvet]

Nice work. Matching handles is a fairly recent phenomenon. Look at the knives made in World War II, many of them had one dark handle in one light handle.

[royal0014]

^^^ what they said ^^^

[doglegg]

Yes Sir, looks good. Knife handles don't always match and usually use accentuates the difference. But those are pretty close. Great job.

[Steve Warden]

D) All of the above

Well done! Looks great!!

[rea1eye]

Herbva,

That toothpick looks great. A lot of my knives do not have matching handles, no matter
how hard I try to find them.

Bob

[TPK]

You did a fine job Herbva!

[Robo]

Inspiring work--Bravo!

[herbva]

Thanks everyone. I suddenly like it a lot better after reading your posts!