All Purpose Knife (Reposted with a price drop)

[HardedgeKnives]

The steel in this all around knife is good old 1095 high carbon at a hefty 1/4" thick with dark finished flats and steel hollow ground bevels. The hardness is 60 Rc on the edge with the point tempered down to 57Rc. This is a hidden tang design and the tang goes all the way through the handle and bolted to the brass pommel. I keep the tang wide while passing through the brass guard and into the handle before tapering toward the pommel to insure good strength. The grain i this spalted mango wood handle really pops. I've file worked the spine to provide and artistic jimping that also gives the thumb a good purchase when bearing down on the back of the blade. The sheath is 8/9 ounce brown leather with tooling and an integral right hand carry belt loop. I'm always a little worried about a pointy knife like this going through the sheath so there is a Kydex lining to prevent this from happening.

SPEC Summary
Steel: 1/4" thick 1095 with edge hardness of 60 Rc
Blade Length: 5.6 inches from tip to guard with dark flat finish and steel bevels
Overall Length: 10.8 inches
Brass guard and pommel.
Handle: Spalted Mango
Sheath: Brown 8/9 ounce tooled leather with right hand belt loop

Price: $168 plus $7 shipping in the US
I prefer PayPal (My account is kelley_ward@keysight.com) but accept checks, money orders and other forms of payment.

Kelley Ward
Hard Edge Knives

 

[ddran]

Funky look but I like it

 

[HardedgeKnives]

Thanks ddran, The knife does and lots of curves from the sway backed spine to the palm swell handle. Kelley