Warrior Werks – Whetstone | Ep. 48 – Mail Call, Future Projects & Thoughtful Gifts

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Welcome to works. We make legends out of rust and dirt. In the noise in the hering away, welcome to works.

[00:00:29]Sorry for the delay or the lack of uh videos even for my wetstone videos.

[00:00:38]A pretty busy week.

[00:00:40]Our youngest boy graduated on Thursday from high school and my daughter, son-in-law, and my grandson drove down on Wednesday and they just left just about an hour and a half, two hours ago.

[00:00:57]And I was busy with a bunch of things, mostly my grandson. Uh, but we had a pretty busy uh latter part of the week. And I appreciate you guys being patient with me.

[00:01:12]Um, want to give everybody a quick update. Um, my knee seems to feel uh, you know, a little little better every single day.

[00:01:24]um I'm able to get up, move around, stay on it for, you know, maybe about an hour at a time before I feel like it's swelling up and I need to go rest and let it uh let the swelling go down, ice it basically.

[00:01:40]And um it's just kind of been one of those processes. I know over the next few weeks that hour will will become two, then three, then four. So, it's uh leading up to it.

[00:01:55]But with that being said, um I I am starting to get in the shop like I um have you guys have seen from some of my short videos, and I'm trying to make sure that some of the restoration projects I'm fixing up are kind of up to speed with what I normally do.

[00:02:20]I don't want to risk working on too many things that aren't mine. Um, unless I know that, you know, with my knee and standing and, you know, sitting and kind of just overall the condition of how I'm feeling right now is not going to affect or how it's going to affect the work that I'm doing.

[00:02:42]But I wanted to go over a few things. I received a few packages in the mail. And before I get too buried in those, I wanted to do a mail call.

[00:02:53]And I got some really nice things. Uh, you know, I want to start off by showing a few things that I received as well, the one thing I received a gift as a gift and the other two that were sent for my wife and my granddaughter Emma.

[00:03:15]and I received a very nice card and this is from brother Tim and he sent this card and kind of made me laugh about that. Uh really kind words. He just wanted to basically let me know he was thinking of me and hoping for a speedy recovery and wanted to send me a get well gift. He said that he turns pens and other small items. these being the other some of the other small items.

[00:03:46]And he said that the pen is for me and the keychains are for my wife and my granddaughter.

[00:03:53]You know, Tim, I really appreciate that.

[00:03:55]Honestly, um this this is something I'm going to enjoy for a long time because I've always eyeballed these. I actually bought a kit for my son probably about six, seven years ago. I don't know if I can even find it, but we planned on wood turning or doing a turning down something to make this exact pen. And we just never got around to it. And probably for good reason. I don't know how good I would be at turning wood turning. And it looks like you're absolutely an expert at it as this is a very beautiful pen.

[00:04:37]Um, this is going to find its way onto my desk.

[00:04:43]Thank you, brother. Absolutely appreciate you thinking of me, my wife, and my granddaughter.

[00:04:52]And I'm going to be cleaning off these things as as I present them because there's just going to be too much and it'll get too busy on the camera or on the screen.

[00:05:02]Um, I re I I recently did a trade and with brother Chuck and we we did a pretty decent trade, I think. And he included a nice note. Said, "Thank you. I hope you enjoy the trade. Hopefully, you can get a use from some of these oldies."

[00:05:29]And he wanted to know if I happen to rehab some of these. He'd love to see them. Take care. God bless.

[00:05:36]And I got a few of his knives I'm going to be restoring. I'll show these ones.

[00:05:42]This is an absolutely stunner of a knife.

[00:05:48]And this is a Westfield cutlery.

[00:05:52]It's a pen knife, cigar, or more like a sleeve board, I would say.

[00:05:59]Beautiful bone.

[00:06:02]I'm going to try to do my best on fixing that up.

[00:06:07]Beautiful X's under copper head.

[00:06:13]Just going to basically do a spa on this one as it's pretty good most of the way around.

[00:06:22]Same thing with this one.

[00:06:24]As you can see, it's old Remington camp knife or scout knife.

[00:06:31]I'm going to clean this one up.

[00:06:32]Beautiful bone on this one. Just really good examples of older knives. And I can't wait to get those cleaned up.

[00:06:41]And the cool thing about projects like these is I can when I feel comfortable, these are the things I can kind of work on. Also got this 76 uh 1 18 pattern that I'm going to be working on for him.

[00:07:03]you know, cleaning it up and putting some new handles on there.

[00:07:11]But he included a a few like oldies as he called them. There's a half congress right here. Camp knife, a pen knife, and uh this one, you know, a lot of all of them are cool, but these three kind of really garnered my uh attention.

[00:07:37]And this is a KBAR jack knife. full blades, nice snap.

[00:07:45]Just this has a is a good candidate for a handle replacement.

[00:07:52]This both blades have great snap. Great old knife.

[00:07:59]Uh this one uh this one's a Cutmaster.

[00:08:04]So if I can find some blades. I don't know if it's a blade or I don't know if that spring is bad, but this has no snap. So, if I can find something similar to this, I'll be able to stabilize that bone and hopefully change it. You know, you never know what you're going to run into. So, that's cool.

[00:08:31]Now, this one, um, this one's a cool knife.

[00:08:38]Has a chip and a crack, but that can easily be stabilized and blended in.

[00:08:46]But this is a Carl Schliper.

[00:08:51]I don't know if I said that right or not.

[00:08:56]I think with a last name like mine, I would say it correctly.

[00:09:01]But German eye brand secondary blade still has some life, but it's been pretty whittleled down. It still has snap. This has snap. So, real cool trapper pattern, but here's my thinking on this. And I'd like to know what your guys thoughts are. Give me one second.

[00:09:40]I didn't line this up yet, so these might might not work. But this is also a German eye brand and it's a moose pattern.

[00:09:52]But the moose pattern is the same as a trapper but reversed.

[00:10:05]I don't know if that'll work. I mean, I know it'll be long enough.

[00:10:10]Might be a little too long, but that can be trimmed down.

[00:10:24]That's not too far off either.

[00:10:27]But I guess my point is is I mean I like this knife. This is a really cool knife.

[00:10:34]But this is a way cooler knife at least with the bone.

[00:10:44]But pretty significant size difference.

[00:10:47]So, I'm going to keep my eye for some replacement blades for this.

[00:10:53]And brother Chuck, I really appreciate these and I appreciate the trade.

[00:11:01]Then I of course got um another box from uh Brother Jake.

[00:11:12]And brother Jake sent me a few knives that he wanted me to restore, double check, clean up, you know, just kind of do my thing on them, I guess.

[00:11:24]And, you know, as you guys can see from what Brother Jake has sent in the past, he's he's a Barlo guy.

[00:11:33]Um, he sent the X's under Barlo.

[00:11:47]And this is a 72. So I think he wants this one eventually rehandled. That's his birth year.

[00:11:55]So clean up, rehandle.

[00:12:02]This king cutter wants me to do a clean up and see what I can do about maybe getting a little more snap out of that when it's apart maybe.

[00:12:21]and he sent this Hankles and he wanted that blade cleaned up and the handle polished.

[00:12:34]Again, these are really cool, fun little projects that don't take a heck of a lot of time. And I feel pretty comfortable that I be able to get things like this done without a huge time investment. I mean obviously it will take time but not a huge one.

[00:12:53]And he also sent this, which might look familiar to a few of you, but brother Jake ended up getting this from brother Chris at One Daily.

[00:13:09]And this is a case tested green bone.

[00:13:13]And wanted to see if I could there's anything I could do to improve upon Chris's uh remake of this.

[00:13:29]Not any insult to Chris at all, but he just wants to make sure that the crack especially is sealed. and he wanted me to go over it and I looked it over and I all I can tell you is Chris uh is very thorough when he works on his knives. And it's going to be my recommendation to Brother Jake that this one be left alone.

[00:14:02]you know, unless he has something specific that he wanted me to do.

[00:14:08]Maybe just clean up the edges just a little bit.

[00:14:15]But I don't know what um Brother Chris sealed that with. Might have been epoxy or something else along those lines. But if I do anything to this, I'll take you guys along for the ride.

[00:14:34]But that one really cool to have this one as that's probably the first video I ever watched of Chris and what introduced me to Chris.

[00:14:48]And one second.

[00:14:51]So, you know, just no surprise, but Brother Jake also sent some very uh appreciated gifts. And he knew I collected the Kershaw Kais.

[00:15:05]And he sent this. And this is a really cool knife.

[00:15:11]You know, this is a 2040. And the funny thing about this one is uh I think Stephen at SJ Relics just received one of these as a gift as well. Now this one of course needs a little bit of work.

[00:15:28]Um not sure.

[00:15:31]We'll see what we can do about these. I like refinishing these. These are fun to take care of and they're just solid knives.

[00:15:39]Um, I have quite a bit of an collection of these Kais. Um, I forgot what uh Mr. Barfield references as in his video to Stephen, but that that's a really cool cool uh gift.

[00:16:00]And I don't know what it is about Brother Jake, but he finds some good deals on some old uh camp knives.

[00:16:10]And he said he bought finds these at pawn shops for some pretty good prices.

[00:16:14]But you know, this is a old chamilillas.

[00:16:20]Super cool knife.

[00:16:22]Cool punch. Very sharp punch, but there's not anything that needs to be done to that. So that goes straight into the collection.

[00:16:32]And he sent this wards. Man, that's a nail breaker right there.

[00:16:38]And I'm going to do a clean up on this one. These handles are just fine. It has that really cool decorative liner or spacer.

[00:16:52]So that that's also a cool knife.

[00:16:57]And he sent this older trapper that needs some cleaning up. Older pee seed jig.

[00:17:05]old carbon steel blades.

[00:17:11]Still pretty full blades. And this is going to be this is going to clean up really nice.

[00:17:18]And he sent Emma this really cool little Rough Rider Whitler.

[00:17:25]I already gave it to her and she's going to put it in her collection here. She got pretty happy for it.

[00:17:33]But pretty little bone.

[00:17:38]She She laughed. She goes, "Oh, that's so cute. That's tiny."

[00:17:42]And she loved it. I mean, she was really happy for that.

[00:17:48]But, you know, Brother Jake, I always appreciate you. I I do. And you don't have to do these. you you know I've talked to you about this and um I know you're very generous individual and I hope you know that uh it's hard not to reciprocate and um I just hope that you enjoy some of the things that I have sent you as well and I I also know I don't need to pay you back. I do that because it's kind of one of those things in our culture. Um it's appropriate to give something when you receive something um when when when possible. So I I just want to make sure that you understood that I appreciate everything that you have done and given and I appreciate our friendship too. Um you definitely have become a really good friend. um not because of the gifts or anything, but it's because of who you are and what kind of person you are and I really appreciate you.

[00:18:59]So, that brings me kind of to the last mail call that I want to go over at least to some extent. Uh there's quite a bit in here. And this is from Brother Casey with Cthin Cutlery.

[00:19:18]And I mean it's kind of there's kind of a lot of things and I some of the things we anyways um I worked on a good handful of his knives and I sent them back to him and part of the agreement we had was a trade for some knives uh that I knew he had and um you know we went over those and anyways um it was I I traded for some of the knives that I already had cleaned up on some of my shorts in the past few days.

[00:19:53]And he sent uh a few other things, but I also received this. You guys have seen this on his channel.

[00:20:02]And we don't get these up here in Alaska. So, this is pretty cool to have received this little Keen Cutter hatchet.

[00:20:11]I mean, somebody got their initials in there. They're going to go away when I clean it up.

[00:20:18]I'm going to knock out the handle and do my best to salvage that original handle.

[00:20:27]Now, I'm going to see what I can do. I'm going to fill that with some uh CA glue.

[00:20:31]Then, I'm going to fill it in, back fill it with epoxy or wood putty, whatever. I think can I think well some wood putty is is epoxy but I'll figure out what I'm going to do.

[00:20:49]But this is going to be a fun project.

[00:20:51]This is going to turn out real nice. I just want to make sure I preserve that stamp right there. And I can fix some of this uh chunky edge.

[00:21:06]It's kind of brought back. It's used quite a bit.

[00:21:10]But this was a cool trade.

[00:21:17]This wasn't part of the trade. He just wanted to send me these. Of course, I'm going to use some of this on a cutting knife or two that he had sent me. But he sent me some um elk stag to work with. Really appreciated him doing that. He said sent a good chunk a few really nice pieces.

[00:21:46]He thought of me when he ended up giving me this. I'm going to straighten this out and hang this up in my shop.

[00:21:53]I think that was a really cool thoughtful gift. I really do appreciate that. You know, I was born in the bicesentennial of the US. So that was really thoughtful gift from Casey.

[00:22:07]No.

[00:22:18]Don't mind going over some of these things with you cuz he's talked about a few of these on his channel and some are pretty complex. Other ones are fairly straightforward.

[00:22:30]But in a nutshell, um I'm going to be rehandling these two with some of the elk that I just put away.

[00:22:41]And this one I'm going to clean up, but this one's mine.

[00:22:49]I still don't know what I'm going to do with those handles.

[00:22:53]Well, I do know they're coming off, but I don't know what I'm going to put on here, but these are really cool uh swing guards.

[00:23:08]These two, he just wanted a good clean up on those. Clean up on the blades.

[00:23:14]No, these are pretty full blades. They just some have a little bit of pitting on there which won't completely come out, but we'll get those nice and polished out.

[00:23:27]Get the back springs and everything cleaned up. Same with this moose. I think he got this moose from Redeye.

[00:23:35]Kind of funny how some of these things just travel all over the country from one knife channel to another, but those are going to be straightforward.

[00:23:48]clean up on this one as well. This is his birth year.

[00:23:53]This is uh pretty rough, but we'll get that looking good now.

[00:24:04]Oh, one more cleanup.

[00:24:08]Another uh copper head.

[00:24:12]Going to see what we can do with those blades.

[00:24:18]I love these copper heads. They almost always have good snap.

[00:24:23]These are like really well-built knives.

[00:24:28]Now, on for the ones that require some modification.

[00:24:33]This one, this has no snap on the secondary.

[00:24:41]And I think we're going to make this one a single blade. Clean up that edge.

[00:24:46]Clean up the wood.

[00:24:49]If I can find another blade for that, I'm going to. But for the time being, that's probably going to be a blade delete.

[00:24:57]This one's going to be a blade delete.

[00:25:01]Clean up.

[00:25:03]Pretty gritty, but this one's going to clean up really nicely as well.

[00:25:09]Same with this one.

[00:25:16]You know, when I was out there in my chair, I thought this was bone, but looking at it under better light, it's definitely wood. It's a really cool wood.

[00:25:29]At least that's what I'm seeing.

[00:25:34]We're going to kind of clean up a few things on this and do a blade delete on that.

[00:25:41]this one.

[00:25:46]We might be able to use this for something else. But bottom line is I'm going to be putting this blade in this knife right here.

[00:25:56]This one probably is the most uh labor intensive one that I'll be doing aside from the handles.

[00:26:08]And of course, he's not in a rush for any of those, though. But a lot of those, you know, those are projects I can get done pretty short in short order.

[00:26:22]Um, but I wanted to go over Oh, before I go into that, he also sent me, he was really generous with these two.

[00:26:30]I have a couple of these coming in these hunters, and one has a broken main blade and one has a broken handle.

[00:26:38]I'm hoping the broken handle isn't the same as this broken handle. So, I can use this side and, you know, swap them out.

[00:26:47]But if not, then I I'll find something else. But I can definitely use this main blade. It's better condition than the other one if this one doesn't work.

[00:27:01]And they each have like their down pitfalls for each one, but the X's under is much fuller.

[00:27:12]Let me take that back. This one's a much better blade.

[00:27:17]And since it already stabbed me, I think this one's going to be the one that goes into the knife.

[00:27:28]And he sent me this so I can take out the hand the shield for my dear deer slayer.

[00:27:40]And I'm going to pull this blade. And I've been talking with brother Eric and he said that he might have an extra blade he can send me for the 125.

[00:27:51]And if he does that, I'm going to reblade it and I'm going to rehandle this. These handles are shot. So that'll be one that rehandles and reblades if I can get another blade for it.

[00:28:05]And that that's for me. That's that's not for Casey.

[00:28:11]Um I want to go over a couple of the trades that I got from Brother Casey.

[00:28:28]A few of the items I already cleaned up as I said I didn't forget anything but kind of in order of maybe what you guys have seen them.

[00:28:46]Um, maybe not.

[00:28:55]Got this uh Browning USA.

[00:29:00]And the interesting thing about this one is I was in the comment section on the short of this. Matt with uh Dirty Old Patch asked me if he thought that Case had made these for Browning. But interesting thing about these is these were designed I think around 1969 by Gil Hibben and Case didn't come out with the shark tooth till 7273.

[00:29:34]So this is this predates a shark tooth.

[00:29:40]But you can see the very stark similarities.

[00:29:45]Actually, I'll show you side by side.

[00:29:58]Obviously, this doesn't have exposed pins.

[00:30:22]It's kind of eerie how similar this is.

[00:30:25]And just I kind of made a snide comment, but Case had this in-house designed when they made it. So, let me show you guys.

[00:30:52]Obviously, the blades are way different, but Um, this has a much beefier spring, much beefier blade, but the shape and almost everything else is pretty close to being almost exact.

[00:31:16]But anyways, back on this. Uh, this one was, you saw the before pictures on this.

[00:31:22]It had some like delamination and corrosion, but I I regground it completely, try to get them out, but there's that discoloration in that metal. And it also is on this side. So, that just tells me there's a problem with the metal.

[00:31:41]And this is probably just going to be a looker.

[00:31:44]And I I don't know. Well, I I guess if I was to choose one knife to go out in the field, this wouldn't be it because of that, but it doesn't take away from it still being a very nice looking knife.

[00:32:00]I got this uh 50. I've always wanted one of these. Oddly enough, I never had one, at least a green one.

[00:32:12]And this was in not bad shape, but it had some peppering and a few other things and, you know, the handle was pretty dirty, but I got it cleaned up pretty nice.

[00:32:25]This 890, I had one of these. I had some high hopes I could clean it up, but it's the one I ended up giving away. And uh Tommy with Tommy Boy Knives, Ryan with Tommy Boy Knives won it.

[00:32:44]But again, this one had a lot of peppering as well. Some corrosion toward the tip of the main blade, and I had to rep-profile it, regrind it.

[00:32:56]But that turned out nice as well.

[00:33:01]Probably my favorite of the group is this bison.

[00:33:10]This is a frost. Um, sorry, Parker Frost made by Shrade.

[00:33:18]See some corrosion still in that. But I didn't want to go too far down on that or I think up towards the tip of there.

[00:33:28]But still full blades, beautiful bone, great knife.

[00:33:38]And also in trade, I got two hidden bolster knives, the Tomahawk and the Cheyenne.

[00:33:50]These were very much appreciated. Now I got three hidden at least frost hidden release uh bolster bolster hidden release knives. I got one more on the way from eBay. So that'll bring it up to four.

[00:34:08]But being Casey, he he didn't stop there.

[00:34:15]You know, I saw he he sent me a picture.

[00:34:18]He had picked up two of these and I jokingly told him I wanted one because I didn't have a case anvil. I have a buck anvil and a plain anvil, but I don't have a case one. And he he put this in the box and sent it me to sent it to me. So, I very very much appreciate that.

[00:34:42]Now I just got to drill a few holes and put some magnets in there and figure out which knife I'm going to display on there.

[00:34:49]But very very cool uh knives that I got um in trade. Cool knives that I'm going to be working on.

[00:34:59]Um you know, very neat gift from brother Tim, brother Jake.

[00:35:09]you know, hopefully uh my knee can hold out. I can feel it already starting to feels like it gets heavier when it gets swollen. So, kind of my body telling me to go sit down and elevate it. But anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the update. Hope you guys enjoyed some of the knives. And I hope you guys uh see the generosity that's out there. you know, I never once uh thought that I'd gain the friends that I have, and I really appreciate that. You know, um a lot of guys out there going through a lot of stuff. So, it's hard for me to complain about a knee surgery that I know I'm probably going to recover from.

[00:35:57]So when when I get prayers about people asking or saying they're praying for my speedy recovery and hoping that I'm getting well quick so I can get back into the shop because they miss the videos. That really means a lot to me and I do appreciate the prayers. But let's continue also to pray for those you know that are going through much difficult more difficult times than I am going through right now.

[00:36:25]You know, I can sit here and complain about my leg and my pain all day long, but that doesn't make it go away. And the simple fact is is I'm able to stand up. I'm able to get up. I'm able to walk around.

[00:36:39]You know, I do need a cane to get around now, but I can still get around. And I did wake up this morning. I know those are kind of if that's the pinnacle of, you know, our day, that's kind of sad.

[00:36:54]But we also got to consider that a lot of people didn't have that fortune or don't have that or are not as fortunate as us in that sense.

[00:37:05]So you guys keep uh doing what you do. I thank all of you for your support.

[00:37:11]I thank all of you for your uh well wishes and I appreciate you guys not only thinking of me but my family. You know, it's really cool when I receive these gifts and I get them for Emma and my wife and, you know, even my grandson. You know, I got that knife from Brother Victor for my grandson and I got to share that with my daughter when she was here and my son-in-law and they were absolutely appreciative of that. You know, if it wasn't frowned upon, I would put that on YouTube and show you guys, but him holding it. I'm kidding. I didn't let him hold it.

[00:37:48]I wanted to.

[00:37:50]But anyways, you guys stay safe. You guys stay warm. We warrior work.