3/8"+ Thick Knives

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Sorry, couldn't resist.
 
well... if you make the blade WIDE enough, you may have the chance to grind full flat bevels and get a decent angle! But that would be a cleaver more than a knife anyway...
 
I don't think they are very common so you probably won't find many of them. Not trying to be a jerk just going to take a while to find someone with one quite that thick. Even a 1/4" is a big chunk of steel.
 






Here's one that's 1/4" thick, a Busse Custom shop Badger Attack. It's a great knife to have on you if you're out and need to skin a buick or pry open a bank vault- don't think there's any sort of abuse that it wouldn't be able to handle.

For full disclosure, as I haven't skinned a Buick since my sedan hunting days, I ended up selling this one off- but it was a monster in hand.
 
3/8" was most popular during the 60's - early 70's. After that, most dropped back down to 5/16 or 1/4 for their extra heavy duty knives.

Randall still makes the Smithsonian Bowies in 3/8" -

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A famous knife that was made in 3/8" was the Elmer Keith knife -

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Version by Gil Hibben, Gil also used a lot of 3/8" stock, but I think he's gone to 5/16" more often now.
 
I haven't measured the spine, but I'm sure it's close to 3/8". It makes my nmfbm spine look thin.

 
Mikel_24 said:
well... if you make the blade WIDE enough, you may have the chance to grind full flat bevels and get a decent angle..
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Or just use a hollow grind.
The blade profile would look like a fat chick in high heels.
 
You might want to look up one of the makers here on the forum. His name is j-siah and he does .5" blades. He has one up in the exchange right now.
 


 
I've started posting photos in a Work in Progress thread HERE, if you are interested in following along over the next day or two.
 
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