A while back I posted about my dad luring me into an elk hunting opportunity. Well I'm going as some of you know and through that initial post there came to be the offer by j elky to allow me to take this knife along with me that he had been working on. I do not know the story of the knife but i received the knife today from forum member & fellow Minnesotan Jeff "j elky" and it looks amazing!!

I have a few pictures here to post of the knife. I really hope that Jeff finds this thread & shares with us all the details of how the knife came to be & what he has in mind for it. For now i think if I understand correctly it is to become sort of a traveling 24hour campfire knife that is to find its way along on many hunts with our very own members traveling abroad for what ever sort of game... but I'm getting too far ahead & I feel it's best to let j elky determine the future for his creation.

Here is the knife. I really like this type of sheath, but I'm not knife savvy enough to speak too much about it, we'll let Jeff tell us about it.


here it is out of the sheath, very cool huh?


these next 2 shots are attempts at a close op of the campfire logo on the blade.




There you have it. here's the posts from the previous thread that initiated the trip for the knife. It initiated the honor I have of being the first to take it out on an adventure in the field.

Thanks so much for that Jeff.









How cool is this everybody?

Jeff, please tell us about the knife. Also now that I see it, i'm afraid to use it :crazy" Are you sure jeff? and if soo.... hos much are you comfortable with? (i have a little common sense, i'm not going to cut knee & hip joints apart with it, I'll use one of my own knives for that )

But what I mean is, what about blood? are we worried about the beautiful handle getting stained?

Ya gotta tell me or I'll be afraid to use it...



Dave

First ya ask us how to prevent baboon ass then ya worry about blood on a hunting knife?????

Very nice knife. Blood doesn't stain any of mine and so what it it does. It's a hunting knife!

Very nice looking knife.

Good luck on your Elk trip.

I think he is thinking of cutting out the baboon ass with the hunting knife.

Oh too funny, My wife Pam was just rolling a few moments ago reading the baboon thread for the first time..

well, it aint my knife, so I wanna be careful with it





thanks, we leave next Wed. My dad will head out there Sunday morning with all the base camp gear & the horses.

ANYBODY who reads that thread is gonna have verrry sore ribs Show it to yer Dad sometime and watch the fun Good luck on the trip, kill an elk but yer not allowed to gut or skin her so as to protect the hunting knife. Pull off skin with yer teeth!!

Oh don't make me go primal.. it gets ugly! If you've ever read my annual pre deer hunt lunacy you would know better than to bait me with such things as "pull off the skin with your teeth!!"

oh please don't get me started... it'll get scary messy in here... sort of thing that leaves folks standing with there jaw hanging open... "excuse me... but did he just say he was going to mop the blood from the inside of the carcass with the hair on his head?"

Cave men had more etiquette than me...

etyket???Whut is etyket??? How much of the meat do you tear off with yer teeth and eat raw?? I'v done that a time or three. Did it with my moose too
etyket he sez

oh crap, the moon is out.... here I go sprinting through the woods chasing rabits in the dark....

my own dogs are afraid of me when i get like this...



Jeff? come in Jeff... (I sent him a PM, if he goes on line he can educate us all on the knife)

Make sure you write a quick tale of your hunt to send along with the knife. In fact, everyone that uses it on a hunt should do so.

nd: Hope you have a fun trip (there's no other kind). Don't forget your BUTT-OUT Tool and your 12" Mill Bastard file for touching up your knives...

rodger dodger.

I'll make special effort to enclose photos & some hunt notes in with the knife when I send it back to Jeff. Maybe he'll care to keep a diary of sorts on the adventures of his creation.





might have to hold off on the toothy file!

Dave,

Glad you like the knife. A year or so ago, michiganroadkill offered this knife in a kit with the guard and pin. I bought one, finished it and showed it to a guy at work. I never got it back. Tim, mrk, offered me the last two that he had so I bit. I had this one almost complete, sans a sheath and final sharpening. When your elk thread came up I got the great idea (brain fart) of seeing if you'd want to break it in. Besides, if I can't go elk hunting, at least my knife can. The handle is whitetail antler and curly maple from Penn. The sheath is just heavy leather (I think 10-11oz) that was treated with melted beeswax and neatsfoot oil. The steel is 52100, high carbon but not stainless.

So....use the damn thing like you would your own. Gut it, skin it, pop the joints whatever you would normally do. If it gets a little stained or scritched up (tech term), all the better!! Take some pictures and tell the tale when you get back. Then well see who wants it next.

I should strip the finish and do Art(Sitka deer) epoxy finish to fill in those little cracks.

And if you use on your baboon ass, please no pictures!!!

Jeff

Alright!! Jeff found us!!!

Hey this knife is awesome Jeff, and it's such a cool idea sending it out on hunts..

I'll do my best to ground a big cow & put this blade to the test. I'll take pictures & all that & I will most certainly report back here with the pics & any stories I will hopefully have.

But no I won't introduce it to the baboon.

I see. A "Brotherhood of the Traveling Skinning Knife" kind of thing.

Got to have pictures of it being used and the fellows using it. 10 years or so from now, one of the 'Fire members writes it up as a magazine piece.

This could be great.

- Tom

i really do think it could be great.

Just don't forget to quit grinding before it turns blue...or we'll have a Campfire paring knife.

Great looking knife...Hope you bloody it on your trip. :-)



i have a campfire knife as well but no where as pretty as that one.
i did my handle in a pink and white polymer clay.

i will post pics of my knives that i made, and them in use soon.