Sidearms & Scatterguns Pimp my pig sticker project

[ZLBubba]

My father gave me a great custom Bowie knife when I was a kid. I took that knife with me everywhere when I was in the woods. I also tried to sharpen it on a couple whetstones I had.

Fast forward twenty years and I found my old knife that I love so much. I want to get the blade polished up, a keener edge ground into it, and some micarta handles put onto it. I'm willing to lay down some serious cash because the knife has so much meaning to me. My father passed three years ago and that knife will go down to my kids when I'm gone.

I'm looking for a custom bladesmith that would take on a project like this and treat it with due weight. Let me know what bladesmiths you'd recommend if you had a project like this. Much appreciated.

 

[ZLBubba]

Any suggestions would be great at this point. If you've got a custom knifemaker that you've worked with in the past, let me know. Just like the custom gun world, the guys who make the best products rarely have much of an online presence. Thanks for your help.

 

[Pester]

Larry is great to work with. Not sure what is lead times are and he may not be taking in outside knives. With so much money in the high end collector market I think he is doing a lot of that however he is fond of doing work for people that actually use his knives.

Carved Ivory and Damascus Dagger

Good luck

 

[Unknown]

Bill Harsey out of Creswell, Oregon has done great work for me in the past. Although Micarta is really tough, for an heirloom knife, I would put something better looking on it though...think of things like Ivory, Stellar's sea cow bone, Oosik, mamoth ivory, giraffe bone, and other materials. If you do some research, you will be able to find something that will be absoutely beautiful, and will be worthy of a knife with that much meaning.

 

[RollingThunder51]

A picture would tell a 1000 words on this project.

99% of the time is is always best to just leave it alone as it was the "using" of it that sets it apart from the shelf queens.
There are plenty of smiths around that could do it, fewer that have any time other than to build their own, fewer still worth allowing to work on it that aren't busy with their own work.

Grandfather's

 

[ZLBubba]

That's a cool pig sticker right there. I agree about the use marks giving it character. The issue for me is that I'd like for the knife itself to be more functional all-around so that it morphs from a cool knife I had as a kid to a functional tool with sentimental value that I can use much more regularly.

 

[Pester]

ZL, Shoot Larry an email and see what he says. RollingThunder is right in his assessment of bladesmiths however I have known a couple of those high end craftsman/artists that do things like you are asking. Not saying he has time but he is generous to a fault and he might be able to find a way to do it.

luck to you on a good project....

 

[ZLBubba]

ZL, Shoot Larry an email and see what he says. RollingThunder is right in his assessment of bladesmiths however I have known a couple of those high end craftsman/artists that do things like you are asking. Not saying he has time but he is generous to a fault and he might be able to find a way to do it.

luck to you on a good project....

I just emailed Larry, will PM you if he responds.

 

[hunter966]

Menefee knives out of Blanchard Oklahoma, he does excellent work.

 

[Bullhed78]

You could try these guys. They make all their knives in house. I'm not sure if they can do what you want but it's worth a try.
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