Tennessee Toothpic

[gunmaker]

Riflemans knife & sheath made from a long mill file.  Blade is 10 1/2".  Handle is elk antler with poured pewter bolster & cap ( I know no pewter trimed knifies have been found)  steel guard as a scrolled flint trigger.....but i like it...........Tom

[Roaddog]

That is very impressive. Your work sure shines.

[Riley/MN]

That knife truly shines!

[Spotted Bull]

drooool and slooooooooobber!!

[gunmaker]

Thank ya fer the nice words..............Tom

[pathfinder]

Any reason ya didn't show it off the other day? It was great to meet you and your lovley wife! Heading back to Michigan in the am,see ya next time!

[gunmaker]

stay longer next time friend, I was afraid of overload, we got a house & safe full of this stuff.  hope ya kep yer paw on yer poke while here.  common knowledge in LV they didn't build this town with their $$$$$.door always open.........mostly............heading up to Oregon for "T" day, hope to go steelhead fishing in river.......Tom

[Buzzard]

If'n ya were to mix that blade with a quart of apple pie, we might just start callin ya "Ole Three Fingers" You could lift the scalp of a good sized Griz with that thing!!!!!!

[Uncle Russ]

Tennessee Toothpic and Arkansas Toothpic, heard both terms, interchangeable,  quite often over the years and always wondered, but never wanted to show my ignorance by asking, but here it comes......

Is there a difference, and what is that difference?  

BTW: That puppy looks like it will reach out and touch.

Uncle Russ...

[gunmaker]

don't know nothing about Arkansas tooth-pic's, But 200 years ago most "over mountain men" carried a long knife & hawk along with their rifle.  My family is gen-u-wine smokie mt. hillbillys.  Been in those mt. since before the war.  (Rev. war) ask one a them razorbaks.........Tom

[pathfinder]

Probably a matter of geography.