/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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Horseman's knife, this is sort of your Victorian/Edwardian multi-tool, I've done a little bit of work recently getting rid of surface rust and tidying up a little bit of the bluing. Its missing the picks and tweezers which slide under the scales but at some point I'll make a few of them at some point when I've got some time to do them. Unlike most of these types of knives made in Sheffield, this one was made in Edinburgh in the 1890's, the smaller blade was broken off and replaced in the 1950's with a little Sheffield knife, still locks up quite nice and everything is in some fairly good quality carbon steel.
>The panel and loop are nickel silver, scales are probably buffalo horn as best I can tell but they're quite a very good, premium set that's pure black and original to the knife.
>It is a big old chonker of a thing, but if you work with sheep, horses and cattle its generally still very good
>Not so useful the button hook any more, but the file/flathead driver, awl and auger are generally very good condition and the hoof-hook is a big chunk of machined high carbon steel that is practically bomb proof.
>The corkscrew is actually pretty damn useful if you like wine and can't find the other damn one in the house

Its been through a lot of wars