All About Pocket Knives

Hi everyone, I was in my father's work garage the other day and found a Schrade OLD TIMER fixed blade knife. After finding it, I can remember it being in there since about 1980. It looks like maybe a 16OT with a pitted carbon steel blade and the handles need to be replaced. I was thinking of using some whitetail deer antler to make a set for it. My question is, can the pins be cut with a utility razor blade like I saw on another post here? The pins look to be nickle silver but are of a size that I don't think a razor blade will cut. Could I use some old nails to make new pins out of to hold the handles on? Now about the deer antler handles, anyone got any advice about the use of whitetail deer antler? Pro's or Con's about it? The antler I have is about 4 or 5 years old. They are sheds that my wife and I found one spring while hunting dry land fish so they should be seasoned. I just don't want this knife to go to waste when it could be repaired in some way to be of use to someone. As always thanks before hand for any advice or help you maybe able give to learn me about knives. duffy.

if the handles are to be discarded, grind down one sde and drive out with a punch. your antler should work just fine. proper pin material is available very inexpensively. show us pics when your done.

duffy, you can use the nails if they are used correctly and of the proper size, the deer antler should work, the only downfall with deer is the relatively small diameter of the beams don't allow of very wide handle scales, so you might need to find an alternative. A razor blade won't cut the rivits, but you can #1 drill out the heads or #2 do as Jonet sugests and grind the heads off on a sander that is if you don't want to keep the handles in tact,

Just approach the project carefully, Duffy. It CAN become addictive.

Maybe I just fell off the back of the turnip truck - but WTH is a dry land fish ? Do ya shoot 'em, or hook 'em, or trap 'em ?

Curious JR

Ringmaster wrote:Just approach the project carefully, Duffy. It CAN become addictive.

Maybe I just fell off the back of the turnip truck - but WTH is a dry land fish ? Do ya shoot 'em, or hook 'em, or trap 'em ?

Curious JR

I'm sorry Ringmaster. I just took it that everyone knew what dry land fish were. Dry land fish are wild mushrooms that only come up in the very early part of spring time here in the mountains of southern WEST VIRGINIA (us hillbillys call it WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA). The complete life span of the mushrooms are maybe 3 -4 weeks. Thats from popping through the ground until the fall over and decay. All I use to hunt them is my eyes and I cut me a walking stick to help my get up and down these mountains. You just learn what they look like and walk the mountains looking for them. Once found you wash them in water, slice them in any size you like, powder them up like fried green tomatos with either flour, cornmeal, beer batter, or Texas hot spice powder (your choice), and put them in a frying pan and fry them. They are really good to eat. Everyone here hunts them every year as well as hunting poke, wild greens in spring and wild ginsing(hillbillys call this sang hunting) in late summer to early fall. We don't eat the ginsing, we sell it after it drys out. It was selling for almost $600.00 a pound the last time I checked. It takes 3 pounds of wet sang to get 1 pound of dry. All this might sound odd but, almost all the familys here have been doing this since before West VIRGINIA was a state. The 3 most southern countys here in WEST VIRGINIA are in a time wharp. They're still stuck in the late 1800's to early 1900's. Hunting and fishing to feed your family, growing all your food through the summer and canning it to do you through the winter, and making moonshine still happen like it did 100 years ago. I could tell you some things that happen here on a daily basis that you wouldn't believe still happen but, I've done rambled on too much already and don't want to bore the other readers ::blah:: . Thanks for the advice so far everyone, if anyone else has anything to add, please do. Oh, I almost forgot, MM these sheds are from a big buck. Plenty big enough to handle a knife from. We have real big deer here in the county where I live, it's a BOW only deer hunting county. Duffy.

BamaFatman wrote:DID YOU SAY MOONSHINE I'LL TAKE A GALLON OR 3

SSSSSSSSHHHHHH...Fatman. Might be some revenuers sneaking around here. I always tell them it's liquid stump blower.

Duffy wrote:

BamaFatman wrote:DID YOU SAY MOONSHINE I'LL TAKE A GALLON OR 3

SSSSSSSSHHHHHH...Fatman. Might be some revenuers sneaking around here. I always tell them it's liquid stump blower.

I think I was quite fortunate where I grew up (mostly) in Kelseyville, Ca. spent most every summer there except my late teens. They (my great Grandparents) were in a time warp there aso.

Gram was always missing canning supplies and I found the stash. Yup, Gramp found me laying there passed out in the sun, first time. Kicked me in the leg and asked if I was alive. "No!" "Good then go down to the meadow and irragate the Pear trees down there!" Good thing Gram never found out, Gramp did save my hide. Nice, not often does someone my age in California get to have such memories.

Did find some fresh mash one time and fed it to the pigs, they're a hoot to watch when they get drunk. Caught H*LL for that, those pigs were important for lard, need it to make lye soap also and many other things as well. I guess these are my fondest memories, kinda feel like I belong there.

Yep, some pretty good stuff Hukk. Just stay away from the backins. The backins are the left over run offs of the good stuff, in case you didn't know. It can be drunk and it will still make you feel numb all over as frost bite but man, the headache and dry heeves the next day . I recon GOD does look out for the kids and the crazys like we were when we were younger.

Duffy wrote:Yep, some pretty good stuff Hukk. Just stay away from the backins. The backins are the left over run offs of the good stuff, in case you didn't know. It can be drunk and it will still make you feel numb all over as frost bite but man, the headache and dry heeves the next day . I recon GOD does look out for the kids and the crazys like we were when we were younger.

It was good stuff, a corn or barley mash, depending on what he was making. Know anyone that needs 30+ acres of barley AND 30+ acres of corn just to feed the chickens and hogs in addition to a few acres of winter squash? Cause I don't!

Yeah, I never got the heaves, unless I was really hurling. Did get a couple headaches or so, bad enough that my hair hurt! Yeah, my Guardian Angel is one tired old dude, all the dumb things I've done I reckon I'm lucky to be on earth still. Quit drinking that stuff in 1995 and never looked back.
When I kept waking up with women I didn't remember-ahem, time to quit. A couple women, I would never have dated, much less waking up her bed. ONE thing I do know, I do have a Guardian Angel, cause EVERY time this happened I woke up they were calling me Chuck, not Darrell Me bad, gave them a buddy's phone number, just had to go to a different bar - sometimes town. Good Instincts!

I used to make good beer and wine, even country champagne. I figure it was good cause I always had friends come over and help me drink it. BTW, it's much harder to make good beer than good wine. Beer making is called Zymurgy and there used to be a magazine of the same name.

Bama: having spent some time in Maryville you can find all the shine you need at the old taxi stand!