Maple Boning Knife

A few summers ago, my dad and I were hired to build a large deck behind a neighbor’s house. While we were having the time of our lives digging holes for the concrete footings with a rented excavator, we dug up the blade of this knife. Since we never throw anything away that might someday be useful, my dad hung onto it, and after moving to our new house, I discovered it and began to do some research on how to build a new handle for a blank blade. This is the result, and the first knife handle I ever built. Maple handle, finished with Minwax Spar Urethane. Not particularly beautiful, but a very good learning piece. Comments, suggestions, good jokes and all other manner of verbiage welcome.

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