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I recently was very impressed with a knife I saw made by Bill Buxton.
I tend to really like handles made from sheep's horn. Bill said he was having trouble finding sheep's horn but would send me some pictures of a knife where he used goat's horn (should appeal to Bastid). I thought you might be interested in seeing this knife and just how beautiful goat's horn is as a handle material.
This knife is forged 52100 , 3X quenched and tempered just like the one that Bill cuts all the rope with, guard is tapered solid brass and the handle is 2 pieces of goat horn, it looks a lot like marble, very pretty. The blade shape is awfully close to a fowler except for the sway in the riccasso are, makes for a good finger notch when handling in front of the guard.
I have more pictures if you are interested. Using the software from Bladeforums I will have to post them one at a time.
I tend to really like handles made from sheep's horn. Bill said he was having trouble finding sheep's horn but would send me some pictures of a knife where he used goat's horn (should appeal to Bastid). I thought you might be interested in seeing this knife and just how beautiful goat's horn is as a handle material.
This knife is forged 52100 , 3X quenched and tempered just like the one that Bill cuts all the rope with, guard is tapered solid brass and the handle is 2 pieces of goat horn, it looks a lot like marble, very pretty. The blade shape is awfully close to a fowler except for the sway in the riccasso are, makes for a good finger notch when handling in front of the guard.
I have more pictures if you are interested. Using the software from Bladeforums I will have to post them one at a time.