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Folding hunter with amboyna burl and hamon...
This one was commissioned by a local hunter to use as his main hunting knife. He said he uses a folder exclusively for hunting and did not want a fixed blade. He liked my forged guardless hunters and basically wanted one the same size and shape, but locking and folding.
I want to point out that there are several features that were his choice specifically: 1. He absolutely wanted no thumb stud, disc, hole, slot or nail nick of any kind. He expressly wanted this to be a two handed knife. 2. No pocket clip. 3. Dark gray look to the blade. 4. Some sort of premium burl handle. 5. No bolsters. So this is what I came up with. 1075 steel clay quenched and etched 4 1/2" closed, 3 3/8" blade, 7 7/8" open Blade finished out right at .125" and has full distal taper Heavily rounded spine for comfort Filed thumb grip areas, all de-horned so nothing is sharp Stabilized amboyna burl scales with chamferred screw holes Black pivot and screws Fileworked Black g-10 backspacer, fileworked inside and out...grooved outside and coined inside Polished and jeweled titanium liners, all sharp inside edges de-horned Very smooth action and rock solid lockup All comments, discussion and critique welcome. __________________ John Doyle You have nothing to fear but fear itself...........and bears. |
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