Father and Son Knife set Oct 18, 2008 20:46:09 GMT -6 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by Ron Kulas on Oct 18, 2008 20:46:09 GMT -6 A member of our archery club asked if I would make him and his young Son a set of knives with shed antlers he had as the handles. I agreed.I sent him all my blade forms and he picked a Nesmuk style blade.I used O1 tool steel (my favorite) I did a bit of custom file work on the backbones of the blades to dress them up and then polished the file workThen I applied gun blueing to the backbone and gave the blades a brushed finish leaving the blueing in the deep areas of the file workHe asked that I fill in the white bases of the antlers with "Dad" and "Mitch" I saved the brow tines for display bases. The blades are O1 steel heat treated and twice tempered to RC58 hardnessFor the sheaths, I used 8 Oz. Oak tanned leather with a medium brown dye to give an "Old" look to the leather..