A new handmade Kephart

[marchone]

While all the excitement is going on with the BK62 (which I will get for reference) I found a knife maker in North Carolina who made this. He got a lot of details right, and some not so, but overall I am very pleased. The biggest departure from the original is it is a full flat grind, like the Ka-Bar, though does not have the same spine detail.

It sports a 4 1/2" Brazilian wood handle on a 4 1/2" 1095 blade.

 

[Jolipapa]

A good looking sturdy tool!

 

[paulhilborn]

Beautiful in it's simplicity....yet....the Kephart is somehow complex when you drill it down with it's subtle features.

Man, I sounded like a food critic

 

[screened porch]

I'd thought the Colclesser was flat-ground, but I see elsewhere it was convex and thickest at the centerline.
Beautiful knife, marchone .

 

[marchone]

Thanks. It was thickest not at the centerline but closer to the spine. By maybe a third. That is what made it unique. Like an backward airplane wing. Or a Sierra Matchking. Way, way, way before its time.

 

[WinchesteRalox]

Good looking knife!

 

[WoodManGM]

Here's some of the backstory:
https://knifenews.com/ethan-becker-draws-on-piece-of-knife-history-for-new-ka-bar-kephart/

 

[Mike McCarter]

Great looking knife, marchone! Congrats!

 

[marchone]

This one is better.