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This is a nice, high-performance hunting knife!
OAL- 9 1/4"
blade- 4 5/8" long, .200" thick, 1" wide at the guard, 1 1/4" wide at widest point
steel- Aldo's Awesome High Performance 52100, Forged, with in-house differential heat treatment which includes triple anneal, triple normalize, triple edge quench, and triple draw, with 24 hour freezer cycles between thermal events for a truly high performance blade, that holds a great edge, and yet is easy to sharpen!
grind- a full convex grind, with distal taper, sharpened on a Norton Fine India stone with micro bevels, to an agressive razor edge
finish- etched 800 grit finish, with light hamon or temper line.
handle- Tough and attractive Bolivian Rosewood, with tru-oil finish, and red, white and green mini-spacers, slightly contoured for a hand filling, comfortable grip
guard- 1/4" brass guard, nicely contoured to feel good on the finger, for greater control, and saftey in challenging situations, and 1/8" brass pins
sheath- 11oz leather, hand stitched, hand-tooled, hot-waxed, with cam, for "snap fit", 3 copper rivets for belt loop. Sheath holds blade securely even when upside down, yet allows instant draw, and is easy to re-sheath one handed.
blade fully tested for edge retention and tip strenth before finishing! The blade is subjected to an edge flex test, where the edge is flexed over a 1/4" brass rod from both sides to check for toughness. These blades will generally make 100 {at a minimum} slicing cuts in 1/2" manilla rope in my shop on a scale, without requiring more than 40lbs of force to complete each cut, and will typically still shave hair from my arm at the end of the 100 cuts! {your performance may vary due to rope consistancy, sharpening teqnique and cutting skill}. The heat treated blades are dropped point first on a concrete floor from a distance of roughly 4 feet before finishing, the blade must exhibit no substansial damage to pass the "concrete floor test". After a blade passes these tests, only then does it go to the finishing stage.
$175 plus $10 for shiping/insurance to CONUS. I can accept paypal Joe357m@bresnan.net or money order.
1st to post "I'll take it" gets it!!!
Ships within 48 hours of payment priority with ins.
Feedback appreciated, and thanks for looking!
OAL- 9 1/4"
blade- 4 5/8" long, .200" thick, 1" wide at the guard, 1 1/4" wide at widest point
steel- Aldo's Awesome High Performance 52100, Forged, with in-house differential heat treatment which includes triple anneal, triple normalize, triple edge quench, and triple draw, with 24 hour freezer cycles between thermal events for a truly high performance blade, that holds a great edge, and yet is easy to sharpen!
grind- a full convex grind, with distal taper, sharpened on a Norton Fine India stone with micro bevels, to an agressive razor edge
finish- etched 800 grit finish, with light hamon or temper line.
handle- Tough and attractive Bolivian Rosewood, with tru-oil finish, and red, white and green mini-spacers, slightly contoured for a hand filling, comfortable grip
guard- 1/4" brass guard, nicely contoured to feel good on the finger, for greater control, and saftey in challenging situations, and 1/8" brass pins
sheath- 11oz leather, hand stitched, hand-tooled, hot-waxed, with cam, for "snap fit", 3 copper rivets for belt loop. Sheath holds blade securely even when upside down, yet allows instant draw, and is easy to re-sheath one handed.
blade fully tested for edge retention and tip strenth before finishing! The blade is subjected to an edge flex test, where the edge is flexed over a 1/4" brass rod from both sides to check for toughness. These blades will generally make 100 {at a minimum} slicing cuts in 1/2" manilla rope in my shop on a scale, without requiring more than 40lbs of force to complete each cut, and will typically still shave hair from my arm at the end of the 100 cuts! {your performance may vary due to rope consistancy, sharpening teqnique and cutting skill}. The heat treated blades are dropped point first on a concrete floor from a distance of roughly 4 feet before finishing, the blade must exhibit no substansial damage to pass the "concrete floor test". After a blade passes these tests, only then does it go to the finishing stage.
$175 plus $10 for shiping/insurance to CONUS. I can accept paypal Joe357m@bresnan.net or money order.
1st to post "I'll take it" gets it!!!
Ships within 48 hours of payment priority with ins.
Feedback appreciated, and thanks for looking!
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