What to do with a broken Gun Stock

My mate had a broken gun stock, so we decided to make the scales for his knife from the gun stock.

It is the first knife I have finished since I started working with the O1 Tool Steel.

The knife is designed to be a good skinner and butchering knife.

After the heat treatment the blade had some interesting markings on it and I decided not to polish them out of the blade.  I think that it made for something a little bit different and unique.

The handle scales as mentioned before were made from a broken European Walnut Gun stock.  The original checkering was preserved.

Again two copper pins and a copper lined lanyard hold finished off the handle