Scavenger writes: Part of the purpose of this blog was to be able to show projects that we have worked on or are currently working on. We've been kind of slow lately, and so far it has mostly been philosophical discussion. So, I thought I would show a project that both I and the Feral Man worked on.

This is a knife made for a friend of ours for his birthday. I made the knife and the Feral Man made the sheath for it. This friend's brother has an interest in hunting wild boars with dogs and knives. Personally, I would at least want a spear to keep me back from the tusks, but to each their own. Anyway, the brother was forging a knife with my help, and I got distracted helping someone else and the brother forged the tang down too small. Nothing that would be dangerous for a regular outdoors knife, but when you've got an angry animal that weighs at least as much as you that you're trying to kill with a knife, the tang had better not fail on you. The brother still wanted to use it for hog hunting perhaps.

So with this knife, I was making a present for the friend and also making my version of a hog hunting knife. The tang is very broad, especially at the transition to the blade. The knife is made from scavenged materials. It's forged by hand from a Camaro performance coil spring, unused, that I was given (the friend at one point had a Camaro, so it seemed appropriate). The double guard is copper bus bar I got from a salvage yard. The wooden part of the handle is an oak branch that grew that way. I just shaped it down to a comfortable fit. The stacked leather part of the handle came from a big bag of scrap leather I got at Hobby Lobby. The handle locks into your hand very solidly; the double guard ensures that when you stab a hog, you don't risk your hand accidentally sliding up onto the blade, and the curve at the end of the handle keeps it from sliding out with any slashing or chopping motions.

The sheath is nicely done. It has a peg on the side of the sheath so that you can wear it stuck in your belt if you want. But, the Feral Man also made a separate belt loop holder. This way, you can wear this rather sizeable knife on your belt and still easily climb into your pickup without undoing your belt to take the knife off or having it awkwardly jabbing into you as you're sitting. You simply pop the sheath out of the holder when you're getting in and pop it back in when you get out. He even added an extra niftiness element by stamping a paw print onto the holder that is hidden when the sheath is in it.