How to Make a Butcher Knife Into a Bushcraft Knife 

Lovely to see an old tool back in faithful service and a sympathetic refurb!

NIce video! Nice Knife! Thanks for sharing!

Great job! So rewarding personalizing gear.

Nice, it is alot easier to reprofile an old blade than make one from scratch.

Turned out great!

Really liked that combat rap you did. Gonna try that one!

Well done. Really nice

Right on, Cool knife! The one I made started off life as a big old carving knife from Columbia somewhere. Good steel. Great video!

That looks awesome brother!

Awesome project brother!

Pretty cool. Have some local garage sales this weekend. I'll see if I can find me a nice old blade and try my luck. Like that acid was,lol i have to take that junk daily. 😂

It cuts! Turned out great. Nice addition with the old school strength displays. Hand strength is so important. Nate

Sweet build.

Excellent blade build, looks super nice bro like the Old Hickory. Has your old school flare love it. Dam you can do some Van Damage with those hands haha your videos are just getting better and better keep it up Jess.

Great job on this Jess, looks awesome and love your technique with the burn after gluing, gives it a great look!!!

Cool!

Neat . Use apple cider vinegar for lots of stuff . Didn’t know about rust though. Thanks

Well Done Brother.

You got skills

That turned out great Jess! I do something similar on my handle wraps, but do it in a series of half hitches. You get a slightly raised spiral going up the handle, plus each wrap stays snug. Kin folks seems to have used good steel too, I have a funky knife/hatchet combo from Kinfolks. Just a basic, blocky handle and a locking mechanism on the butt to release the knife blade, or hatchet from the handle and exchange one for the other. They both take a fantastic edge and seem to hold it very well. The sheath is interesting...left handed, and shaped much like Thor's hammer (traditional, not comic book). The hatchet slides down the back and has a flap cover over it, with the knife blade in the handle mounted to the front with a single snap strap for retention. I use them, though admittedly I tend to baby them as the tangs are slim and not likely to put up with too much flexing.

Very nice! Were you able to keep the original stamp? How does that combat wrap feel? I would hate to have those hands mad at me😂😱

Forgecraft is another historical brand of butcher knife and look identical to the Old Hickory. They have a positive reputation but eventually discontinued production in the late sixties. The story goes is that they were made from discarded saw blades. I get the idea from reading forums that the Forgecraft is considered better knife over Ole-Hicks. I have a few Forgecrafts to compare to Ontario Ole-Hicks and would agree. Ya gotta look close at the stamp or you will think its an old-Hick, one of the older and better OH's.

nice

Wot pins did you use? Looked like a nail

Wanna see ya Rip a phone book in half in the next Vid .