Gator Knives FINALLY done

Post by **fishindad** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:10 pm

Catch a gator

Process the gator skull

Tan the hide

Work the bone and get knife blanks

Cut the sheaths!

FINISHED knives! 6 months later. Looking good.

Post by **Iluv2hunt** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:56 pm

Very cool man. I don't want to nitpick, but your skulls need some more degreasing. They will only yellow more over time, and gator fat smells bad. Otherwise a good job and it should be an easy fix

Post by **davedirt** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:06 pm

How much???????????

Post by **down4dacount** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:30 pm

Those knives came out FREAKIN AWESOME

Post by **Kortsman** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:38 pm

Nice! Now there's something to hand down to your kids one day!!!

Post by **DONY1** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:51 pm

Very nice job!

Post by **fishindad** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:15 pm

Iluv2hunt wrote:Very cool man. I don't want to nitpick, but your skulls need some more degreasing. They will only yellow more over time, and gator fat smells bad. Otherwise a good job and it should be an easy fix

No worries... The skull in the pic is one I had lying around. The others I broke into parts to make knives etc. Those individual parts were degreased before being used. That one left in the pic is in need of some serious degreasing. :-) I just had not gotten to it yet.

The knives are all spoken for. I made one for each of my gator hunting buddies. I had alot of fun doing it. Thanks for all the compliments. I had never done leather work, tanning, or knife making before. I learned a TON about alot of stuff.

Post by **houseofmicah** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:19 pm

Very cool. Nice to see the process in pics. Good job!

Post by **30.06** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:21 pm

Very nice! a gift you and your gator hunting buddies will never forget!

Post by **fishindad** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:04 pm

Thanks again. I could have been tweaking these things for a couple more months, but I my standards are pretty high. I almost did a Damascus blade. I might the next time. These are carbon steel cryo treated. Great blades. I will be doing this again. I REALLY enjoyed it.

The interesting part about this particular blade style is that only one knife per gator can be made. There are only 2 flat pieces of bone in a gator skull that allows this cut. It makes is a VERY unique knife. Other types of knives can be made out of various pieces, but not this style. Only one per gator.

Post by **houseofmicah** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:34 pm

Those sheaths are pretty slick.

Post by **GoodOyster** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:11 am

You got some skills! Nice job, really cool stuff.

Post by **jcoop** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:36 pm

That's awesome. If you ever make more, I'd purchase one.

Post by **Cr0ck1** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:03 pm

Awesome knives bro! Would love one!

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