I love to make wooden pocket knives, but this one is different. A friend of mine dropped by the shop a couple of months ago to see what I was up to. I showed him a knife I was working on and he told me he had a knife he bet I'd never seen before and told me I could have. He brought it by the shop a few days later and he was correct. I'd never seen one and didn't know what it was….he didn't either. I looked it up and found out it's called a Rigging Knife or Sailor's Knife. It has other names.Of course I had to make one out of wood so I disassembled the Rigging Knife and started making parts. The scales are Walnut. The Shackle Key, Key Ring, Blade and Marlin Spike are oak. The springs are Bodark sapwood and the liner/screwdriver is Bodark heartwood.Here it is roughed out.After some shaping.Here it is finished with blonde Shellac.I like to make wooden knives as close to scale as the original as possible. Here is the real knife next to the wooden version.This was a fun project and looking for the next one!!
I love to make wooden pocket knives, but this one is different. A friend of mine dropped by the shop a couple of months ago to see what I was up to. I showed him a knife I was working on and he told me he had a knife he bet I'd never seen before and told me I could have. He brought it by the shop a few days later and he was correct. I'd never seen one and didn't know what it was….he didn't either. I looked it up and found out it's called a Rigging Knife or Sailor's Knife. It has other names.
Of course I had to make one out of wood so I disassembled the Rigging Knife and started making parts. The scales are Walnut. The Shackle Key, Key Ring, Blade and Marlin Spike are oak. The springs are Bodark sapwood and the liner/screwdriver is Bodark heartwood.
Here it is roughed out.
After some shaping.
Here it is finished with blonde Shellac.
I like to make wooden knives as close to scale as the original as possible. Here is the real knife next to the wooden version.
This was a fun project and looking for the next one!!