Like the Stag Camillus #41? Check out These Two!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:53 am
I finished these two today for a customer. If you like the nice thin day on the Camillus #41 I posted yesterday you should like this Buck 303, also recovered with some Henckels stag.
I want to say a word about this knife, this is the first Buck I have worked on was not made by Camillus or Schrade and I am really not a fan! The handles are attached with no pins, just adhesive. The nickel silver seems to be much softer than that which I normally find on Schrade, Case, Camillus another knife brands. It really doesn’t look very repairable to me. The biggest problem was getting the handle material off. Normally a couple hours in the freezer and you can usually deliver a sharp tap into the handle material and it will fall right off. Not so with this handle material! It appears to be bonded to the liner. After several attempts to remove the handle material semi-intact I gave up and ground it off with a rasp and then filed it flat. As much problem as I had with the Buck, I still thought it looked nice I was finished.
You like gnarly fat stag? So does my customer! He wanted this incline wrote knife customized. He wanted the gnarliest stag I had and I believe this set of stag handles won the gnarliest award! If you’ve never worked with stag that had this much figuring on top of it can be very sharp especially where it’s been cut or sanded. Basically I had to grind about a quarter inch off of the stag and even then I had to use sandpaper, grinding burs and abrasive burs as well as hand sanding to get the sharp edges off of these little pieces of antler that stuck up to form the handle.
So here’s something for the thin and delicate stag lover and something for the fat and gnarly stag lover.
I hope you enjoy the pictures.
I want to say a word about this knife, this is the first Buck I have worked on was not made by Camillus or Schrade and I am really not a fan! The handles are attached with no pins, just adhesive. The nickel silver seems to be much softer than that which I normally find on Schrade, Case, Camillus another knife brands. It really doesn’t look very repairable to me. The biggest problem was getting the handle material off. Normally a couple hours in the freezer and you can usually deliver a sharp tap into the handle material and it will fall right off. Not so with this handle material! It appears to be bonded to the liner. After several attempts to remove the handle material semi-intact I gave up and ground it off with a rasp and then filed it flat. As much problem as I had with the Buck, I still thought it looked nice I was finished.
You like gnarly fat stag? So does my customer! He wanted this incline wrote knife customized. He wanted the gnarliest stag I had and I believe this set of stag handles won the gnarliest award! If you’ve never worked with stag that had this much figuring on top of it can be very sharp especially where it’s been cut or sanded. Basically I had to grind about a quarter inch off of the stag and even then I had to use sandpaper, grinding burs and abrasive burs as well as hand sanding to get the sharp edges off of these little pieces of antler that stuck up to form the handle.
So here’s something for the thin and delicate stag lover and something for the fat and gnarly stag lover.
I hope you enjoy the pictures.
