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In my mind the most important knife I have made to date, my 9 year old son's first hunting knive. We worked on the name together, he wanted to imply I was going to teach him everything I know about hunting. I scaled everything down to fit his hand well and serve me as a detail caping knife. Blade is crucible 154, 1/10" thick and a 2" cutting edge, handles are canvas micarta with stainless pins. Shealth is carbon fiber pattern kydex and with an attached ferro rod. As a side note I have never worked with ferro rods and ordered some raw stock and planned on using spare micarta from the handle so everything would match. Well I drilled out the micarta and glued the rod in and we decided to add some pins to match the knife. I was drilling slowly with little excitment and the metal shavings built up around the hole. I have a compressor on a foot control to blow shavings away as I work and my apprentice gave it a blast of air so he could see the drilling. Evidently the metal shavings were at a critical point and needed just a little more air for combustion. Suddenly there was an incredibly bright flash, enough to make you see little stars and I realized my hands were stinging, the ignited shavings when right through my gloves and into the skin. In my ignorance I had not idea such a little pile of shavings could produce that much energy. Oh well, lesson learned for all!! ![[Linked Image]](http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/Norcalphoenix/HuntersScalpel017_zps9561e84f.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/Norcalphoenix/HuntersScalpel027_zps75e5afcc.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm130/Norcalphoenix/HuntersScalpel029_zpsf559fff4.jpg)
Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.
"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper
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That is a really nice looking set. I really like the size, and shape of that knife.
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i forget the temps on that stuff but i think it's over 3000 degrees---cranky72
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That is a great looking set!!!
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Appears to be a very lucky son and a great dad.
Nice
Tim
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That is a really nice looking set. I really like the size, and shape of that knife.
Larry Agreed. Very nice setup. I've thrown a few errant sparks myself while making firesteels 
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Nothing shabby about that set-up. Looks ready to make some memories. Good work.
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