Now here's a project that you varmints will definitely get a joyful hoot out of. Mr. Legendary Leather got wind of a very unique type of knife and thought he'd take a gander at tryin' to put one together. First off, he got a hold of a cheap pair of sheep shears . . .yup, you heard me correct!
Nice patina that can be "steel wooled" later on if needed. He then cut one blade of the shears off, leaving approximately an inch and a half of the shaft above the blade itself. He used a hack saw to do this and assures the missus that it was not an easy feat.
Mr. Legendary Leather then drilled a hole into the shaft and soldered a copper rivet into that hole. He then drilled a corresponding hole in the stag antler that would become the handle. Upon glueing the riveted shaft of the blade into the hole of the antler, he then clamped them together to let them dry.
He then fashioned a sheath with a primitively carved floral design (no stamping or tooling) . . . keeping the sheath relatively simply as to compliment the primitive nature of the newly fashioned knife blade.
Historically, this was actually done in bygone days . . . there are a few (very few) originals floating about. They are generally from the late 1800's (this was referred to as the Reservation period and Indian Wars era). Don't let anyone tell ya that them thar vintage varmints didn't know anything about recyclin'.
