Moiling towards perfection

Well, I finally got around to posting the pics of the rigging knife that inspired this whole thing. You see, it started when the guy at Coast Marine on Jefferson St. showed me the chipping knife from CS Osborne and said he sold a few of them to the guys at fisherman's wharf because they were indestructable. The CS Osborne chipping knife is described as a "Plumber's Chipping Knife" and his best guess was that it was used to hack pieces off of a lead brick. To put it mildly, the thing is muy macho and I could easily put a proper grip on it.



In a quest to buy them wholesale, I contacted CS Osborne, got their catalog and saw the sail-plams, marline spikes etc., and Jack came to life.

With a box of a dozen of these things, a slab of Mircata, some brass tubing and a few knife rivets, this is the result:



It ain't perfect, in part because this is a utilitarian tool, not an heirloom piece, and in part because I needed to see how fast I could crank one out. It took 5 hours.

The full description is on the store sight.

I guess that's all for now, oh, I have been talking with people about carrying professional lineman's buckets, stay tuned!!

--Jack