After seeing some of the craftmanship on this sight. I decided to try my hands at building a Cheater Knife. I started with a very old rusty abused Meat cleaver and this is what I came up with. It's about 9" total length with a Osage handle. Tell me what you think.    
Shadow Hunter

Wow...that knife's a real beauty!!!  

That looks great! Nothing like osage for a knife handle. Great job.<><

Nice job,would never know it was your first!  

Thanks guys. Yes this was my first but won't be the last. I showed this to my wife and her only comment was that it looked like something you could walk to the store and buy, I don't think it was fancy enought for her, but it looks great to me. Thanks again

Shadow Hunter

I'd really like some tips on how to make cheaters if anyone could help. Justin

Awesome Knife!

The best advice I could give is to spend sometime searching the net, there are several really good how to sites out there that will walk you though it step by step. There is also a couple articals on this site, just need to do a search. Other than that just give it a try the materials can be had for little or nothing so your not out anything other than your time if you mess one up. I have a total of 6 to 8 hours in the knife above including 4 hours of hand polishing the blade, the materials cost me nothing it was all stuff I had laying around my shop from other projects.

Shadow Hunter

Thanks man. Justin

QuoteOriginally posted by coldsteel0812:
I'd really like some tips on how to make cheaters if anyone could help. Justin

Awesome Knife!

Here's a buildalong I did a while back. Might be of some use.....

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=036732

Hope it helps!

Very nice knife.

Very Nice  

Awesome job!! Slow and steady wins the race!!

Looks great, hope you get some blood (not your own   :rolleyes: ) on it soon!

Thanks for the kind words all.

What an excellent start. Tough to improve on that.

nice looking knife