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Knife Question

Started by Dave Pagel, April 15, 2014, 06:53:00 AM

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Dave Pagel

Gents I am new to this so bear with me.  I am a native Michigander and recently picked up old school hunting camp in northern Michigan.  I have long worn wool plaids instead of camo for most of my hunting, I love my recurves, longbows and old open sighted lever guns and now I have the hots for old stacked leather Marbles knives.  I have picked up an Ideal and I am now looking for a Fieldcraft.  I have come across a few knives that the seller claims has a loose end (Pommel I think?).  In looking at the knives it appears to me there is a way to tighten them.  Does it take a special tool?

Thanks,
D.P.

Roughcountry

Dave
I've added a few leather washers to some of those old blades, then dressed them down. I cut a grove in a screwdriver with a dremell to clear the threads. Go slow and cool it often.

The place to get the washers on a hide is the knee caps. Very firm leather.

Dave Pagel

If I understand you correctly I have to make a tool, there isn't a place to buy one reasonably.

D.P.

kbaknife

I don't know if those tools were ever made available to the customers.
Wouldn't be too hard to fabricate one.
Get hold of Marbles.
When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
Chief Joseph

Dave Pagel


Bladepeek

Dave, making the tool is a piece of cake. As Roughcountry said, you just need to grind a square notch out of the center of a flat-blade screw driver so it fits over the threaded shaft.

The only problem you might run into is if the end of the threaded shaft is peined over and doesn't turn easy. Don't imagine you would have a lot of trouble with it.
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