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Saturday 5 November 2011

A Sheffield Jack Knife Being Made The Old Way.

Note the use of a bow drill.

2 comments:

Joel said...

Thanks for posting this very interesting video, Le Loup. It's useful to see it made, the skills are very evident; just drilling that hole square to the blade by eye is pretty nifty!

Keith said...

I agree Joel, very impressive.
Keith.