All About Pocket Knives

Here are a couple trappers I built from spare parts, spey blades, and spare frames and springs. The black one is linen micarta and a little bit of vine filework w/ a muskrat blade profile, the other was an old 70's stainless one with a drop point profile; that had seen better days. prettiest jigged wood handles i've ever seen so I kept them.

Dang, I like those. I always like how the pull was opened up. Dremel tool?

VERY impressive. I always wondered why I didn't see many other knives with a scagel pull. I like that look so much top notch!

Sweeeeeeet!

Very nice! Both of them!

Scagel pull..?
AAPK is great! I learn something new all the time.

I've read about William Scagel and seen photos of his work, but I thought he made fixed blades almost exclusively...

slotted hole for pull popularized by bill scagel. here's is a repro of one of his designs with said pull.

Pretty knife!

I guess he started making folders in the later years of his career then..?

Be easy to do it on a CNC, seems doable on a Dremel. A CNC would sure be nice. Or a shopsmith, a drill, mill, and lathe combo sure would be nice - real nice!

Jonet143,

Thank you!
Link to an interesting article from Levine's Guide there.
You need much deeper pockets than mine to be collecting Scagel's original work, that's for sure!

c'mon kaleb, how did ya do it?

jonet143 wrote:c'mon kaleb, how did ya do it?

Knowing MM my guess will be Drill and File.

don't forget the monk-like focus and concentration

Ken an Adam are dead on

Had so much fun doing those I decided to do another today. I call this one the ratbuster. Mainly like the black one posted above (which my dad staked claims on of course), only bolsterless with a halfstop this time. Since dad claimed the first one, I had to make myself another.

Drill and File-Holy Smokes! Now that's an exercise in patience. They look great, good work.

sorry, misread thought Ken said Dremel. I used a dremel and a file, not a drill

Your father is a very lucky man!

muskrat man wrote:sorry, misread thought Ken said Dremel. I used a dremel and a file, not a drill

Sorry misspelled that ment Dremal drill....