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Here is a question for you all !

Amongst last weeks achievements was upsetting an ancient British Institution by recycling their 18th century floorboards. These were sold via an architectural salvaged yard and I turned them in to hand made pens which upset them a bit. This week a greater challenge awaits. I have bought some 13th century timber which came from a venerable British building. What would be a fitting blade to use for scales of this age.

I am pretty much constrained with my traditional folding knives by conventional blades - sheepsfoot, lambsfoot, barlow etc.

If I was going to attempt a medieval blade type I would have to consign my project to my friends in Pakistan with all the complications that would inevitably ensue.

What should I do?

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KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by M. Carpenter on December 13, 2014 at 3:18

The problem is that the ability of British knifemakers to make custom pieces is a bit limited. One of the things we have had made and is coming in this week is paperknives with the handles made from teak decking from the Royal Yacht and the blade made from oak from HMS Victory Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar. We have also produced some double bladed folding knives with scales made from sub-fossilised bog oak from the East Anglian Fenland basin carbon dated to around 5300 years old. It's genuine and very hard.

I keep trying with these products but wife is getting a bit fed up with old bits of ships cluttering the place up. Happy Christmas. Malcolm