I can't post a picture because I'm away from home. But I made a skinner knife I still use from a truck spring. I was about 14 years old. My best friend's father was a genuine anvil pounding blacksmith, and of course we loved to play around in his shop, heating pieces of scrap in the forge and pounding them out on the anvil. The only tool we were forbidden to use was the electric power hammer he had built. (It had cut off three of his fingers). I worked that knife ever chance I got till just before deer season. Then my friends father took it and tempered and hardened it for me. It's not a pretty knife and it is very heavy, but it works great and will chop through bone and still be sharp enough to skin with.
I wish all kids had the same opportunity to learn a few things about the old ways like we did.
