My grandfather was well known in this area for his blacksmith skills as well as his hunting knife making when I was about 10 I would say I begged him to build me one. I looked threw lots of his knife books and picked out the shape I wanted and me and him sketched out how we wanted it to look. I would help him in the forage and he would get me to do alot of the work...I got to pick the handle and guard we worked together and he let me do as much as I could without him taking over LOL we never really gave it a lot of time in the finishing department as I suspect he thought I would ruin it and I think he kinda made it to keep me quite LOL
not long after he had a stroke and was still tinkering around but nothing like before and as the years went his age really took affect.
I hadn't used this knife in years and had set in closet at mom and dads probably since the summer it had made. I dug it out and took it to one of my grandfathers best friends who use to work with him and still makes knifes today. I had him made a sheath and all so ad my grandfathers and my name on the blade along with cleaning it up. this knife may not be the best but it holds alot of meaning to me and will be carrying it on my moose hunt this fall along with every other time I will be going hunting