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Old 11-11-2014, 07:59 AM
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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.



















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