Thanks for the links gentlemen.
Your avatar Renault is a cute little rascal by the way. My mom adopted 4 of them back in the 80s, 2 boys and 2 girls, and raised them as her own.
They're fun when they're little, sort of like a cross between a kitten, a puppy, and a monkey or something. At about a year old, they get pretty wild though, but one of the females actually came back for a visit after 2 years, much to mom's delight.
Yeah.....Lady P. did too....right up 'til they started digging up her patio flowers in the dead of night, now....not so much.....
Also.....can A2 tool steel be patina'd, rusted....colour adjusted in some way pretty quick?
Here are some of my favorite blades and such. Two of these knives I actually purchased. And I bet they were in the $9-$10 range. They others are all gifts, inherited or found.
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Big butcher blade second from bottom was my grand dad's old hog and cattle butchering knife. I found it on the old farm, out in the barn, right before they sold the place. About 62-63 ish. No handles. I put handles on maybe 25 years ago. This may have been the blade used in the butchering, in the now famous ( in our family) "Aunt Jane kills the Holstein milk cow before school " episode in our ongoing chronicles of farm life back then!
The hatchet on the right, is my butchering hatchet. Many deer and hogs processed with that tool. Think that head cost me $3.50 and the steel is phenomenal!
Just typical blades from back in the day.
Not exactly what I had been looking for recently, but for the price i couldn't pass it up.
